How to Use middle in a Sentence

middle

1 of 2 adjective

• High temperatures today should be in the middle 80s.
• Place the pan on the middle oven rack and your cheese will melt just fine.
  — Robin Miller, The Arizona Republic, 26 Mar. 2024
• Heat the oven to 450°F with a rack in the middle position.
  — Christopher Kimball, USA TODAY, 1 Feb. 2023
• Her hair was left down and straight with a middle part.
  — Briannah Rivera, Seventeen, 26 June 2023
• The magic of being a middle grader doesn’t come across the same way.
  — Selome Hailu, Variety, 18 Oct. 2023
• The Astros won the middle two games of a four-game home set vs. the White Sox, losing Sunday 6-3.
  — Marlowe Alter, Detroit Free Press, 3 Apr. 2023
• The mom sat in the aisle seat and the daughter sat in the middle seat, just a few feet away from the flight attendants’ galley.
  — John Annese, Anchorage Daily News, 31 July 2023
• To do this, just poke a hole through the cup’s middle, thread it over the hook eye, and secure it in place with superglue.
  — Steve Price, Field & Stream, 7 June 2023
• The 6-3 middle blocker missed most of last season due to injury.
  — Mark Stewart, Journal Sentinel, 1 Apr. 2023
• The middle slice, a film like A Beautiful Mind, is missing.
  — Manuela Santacatterina, The Hollywood Reporter, 27 June 2023
• Faubion said people need not dread their middle and post-menopausal years.
  — Claire Bugos, Verywell Health, 17 Mar. 2023
• Izzy, the middle daughter, just goes about it with a little harder edge.
  — The Indianapolis Star, 26 May 2023
• In the 19th minute, Anders collected a middle pass near the top of the box, but her turnaround blast was blocked away by Souvanaphong.
  — Jim Lindgren, San Diego Union-Tribune, 3 Mar. 2024
• The all-wheel drive middle model, available next year, can hit 60 mph in 4.1 seconds.
  — Aarian Marshall, WIRED, 30 Nov. 2023
• His fourth-inning shot off of a near-down-the-middle pitch from Connor Overton cleared the left field fence with ease.
  — Dallas News, 27 Feb. 2023
• Robbie wore her Barbie-blonde hair down and in a middle part, with soft, glamorous waves.
  — Carrie Wittmer, Glamour, 26 June 2023
• The middle relievers who fill out the bullpen are important, but no arm could boost it more than Félix Bautista’s.
  — Jacob Calvin Meyer, Baltimore Sun, 6 Sep. 2023
• MacKinnon gave the Avalanche a two-goal lead again with a power-play goal with 5:59 left in the middle period.
  — George Richards, Sun Sentinel, 11 Feb. 2023
• There’s a cup holder for the adult pushing the stroller that can be placed on the side or on the middle bar, plus there’s pockets behind the seats for small items like keys and phones.
  — Barbara Bellesi Zito, Peoplemag, 17 Oct. 2023
• Saturday night trends back to the cloudy side with a few showers possible and lows in the upper 50s to middle 60s.
  — Matthew Rogers, Washington Post, 9 May 2023
• Also, look for other devices that might be in the wrong place—like a smoke detector in the corner of the room instead of the very middle.
  — Matt Crisara, Popular Mechanics, 26 May 2023
• The Big Front Seats come with more space and extra legroom — and there are no middle seats, so you're guaranteed an aisle or window.
  — Maya Kachroo-Levine, Travel + Leisure, 19 June 2023
• Dianne Feinstein is to the right of many, even of her middle democratic peers.
  — The Politics Of Everything, The New Republic, 7 June 2023
• The middle vase holds the flowers, while the space between the outer and inner vase can be filled with festive accessories.
  — Sophia Beams, Better Homes & Gardens, 9 Nov. 2023
• The 27-year-old model had her hair slicked back into a tight ponytail with a middle part and a simple makeup palette for the night.
  — Aimée Lutkin, ELLE, 11 June 2023
• Fentanyl is finding its way into the hands of middle schoolers.
  — CBS News, 22 Mar. 2024
• The middle child of seven siblings, Frohna always had big dreams of moving to Hollywood to be in the movie business.
  — Adrienne Davis, Journal Sentinel, 11 Mar. 2024
• Keep in Mind This ironing board is not as sturdy as other options, and the middle fold line can imprint on clothes.
  — Tanya Edwards, Better Homes & Gardens, 21 June 2023
• O’Neill, now 28, grew up in Princeton, Minn., the middle child of three daughters, attending high school in Cambridge.
  — Molly Guthrey, Twin Cities, 26 Jan. 2024
• Villanova is a middle-of-the-pack conference team this season but one that is getting hot at the right time.
  — Aaron Bracy, ajc, 25 Feb. 2023

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middle

2 of 2 noun

• The car stopped in the middle of the road.
• She opened the book to the middle and began to read.
• He tied the sash around his middle.
• He stood exactly in the middle of the room.
• The house should be finished by the middle of next summer.
• She put her arms around his middle.
• The beginning and ending of the movie were good, but the middle was pretty boring.
• A good essay will have a clear beginning, middle, and end.
• The bulk of that comes from the battery, which again sits low in the middle of the car.
  — Tim Stevens, Robb Report, 13 Oct. 2023
• Garfield had stopped three short runs up the middle near the goal line.
  — Eric Sondheimer, Los Angeles Times, 26 Nov. 2023
• The middle of the week is expected to warm up as the snow clears out.
  — Abigail Celaya, The Arizona Republic, 1 Apr. 2024
• Simply use the pushpin to punch a small hole close to the middle of one of the cards and you're done.
  — The Enquirer, 7 Apr. 2024
• Transfer the dough to the middle of a 15-inch (38 cm) strip of plastic wrap.
  — Nicole Sours Larson, San Diego Union-Tribune, 21 June 2023
• Trade in your skis for skates at the rink that sits in the middle of Teton Village.
  — Lydia Mansel, Travel + Leisure, 4 Dec. 2023
• Sanders was jammed up on a run up the middle from the 17 and safety Zion Puckett punched the ball out.
  — Tom Murphy, arkansasonline.com, 12 Nov. 2023
• Make your bed with the two single comforters laid out flat, touching the the middle of the bed.
  — Veronica Cristino, Vogue, 21 Nov. 2023
• Tear off a piece of aluminum foil, and pinch it at the middle to create a tent.
  — Taylor Tobin, Southern Living, 30 Oct. 2023
• On the next play, Perry kept it on an RPO up the middle for a 6-yard score, evening it at 10-all.
  — Ryan Ford, Detroit Free Press, 25 June 2023
• Fill in your lips with your lipstick of choice, pop a bit of a lighter shade to the middle of the lips to highlight, and voilà!
  — Michelle Rostamian, Allure, 23 Aug. 2023
• This time, Chiefs linebacker Willie Gay ran right up the middle and wasn’t blocked.
  — Charlie Goldsmith, The Enquirer, 31 Dec. 2023
• Leading by a run, the Rangers put two runners on with no outs for the middle of the order.
  — Evan Grant, Dallas News, 7 July 2023
• Lin described water deep enough to wade in toward the middle of the lake.
  — Julia Jacobo, ABC News, 24 Jan. 2024
• Stafford threw a dart over the middle but Nacua, who was double-covered, couldn’t come down with the catch.
  — Bill Plaschke, Los Angeles Times, 15 Jan. 2024
• Chance stood in the middle, all smiles while the twins stood on both sides of her and showed off their signature pout.
  — Elizabeth Ayoola, Essence, 3 Oct. 2023
• Tap the lightest shade in the center of the lip, then add the darker shade from the middle to just below your lips' edges.
  — Annie Blay, Allure, 21 Nov. 2023
• But there was no time to warn a construction crew working on the middle of the 1.6-mile span.
  — Lori Aratani, Washington Post, 27 Mar. 2024
• The bulk of the narrative feels like the middle of a story stretched out over two hours, with the ending lopped off.
  — Lucas Trevor, Washington Post, 20 Dec. 2023
• The bodies were found just before 10 a.m. in a truck that was submerged in 25 feet of water near the middle of the bridge.
  — Summer Lin, Los Angeles Times, 27 Mar. 2024
• Winfield, a New York Yankee at the time, stands in the middle of them, looking slightly off to the side.
  — Betsy Helfand, Twin Cities, 24 Jan. 2024
• During this time, the hox genes are highly expressed in the worm’s middle and butt.
  — Laura Baisas, Popular Science, 22 Nov. 2023

Last Updated: 5 Sep 2024