How to Use midstream in a Sentence

midstream

noun
  • Now more than ever, investors need to stay with the best of the biggest in midstream.
    Roger Conrad, Forbes, 24 July 2022
  • The production lost a showrunner midstream, and advance buzz has been tepid, to say the least.
    Annalee Newitz, Ars Technica, 25 Sep. 2017
  • This is a poor time to switch horses in midstream or to make sweeping gestures.
    Jeraldine Saunders, The Mercury News, 6 Jan. 2017
  • The centerpin reel spun rapidly as the float splashed midstream.
    Paul A. Smith, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 24 Mar. 2018
  • Fleck was hired Jan. 6 and inherited the process in midstream.
    Andy Greder, Twin Cities, 21 Mar. 2017
  • Be careful, though, as the rocks that skirt the road are seemingly more slippery than those midstream.
    Matt Wyatt, ExpressNews.com, 15 Oct. 2020
  • Arcade Creek ran fast and full with brown water, so high the tops of barren trees that once lined the bank instead poked through the depths midstream.
    Anita Chabria, sacbee, 30 Jan. 2017
  • The afternoon produced only one trout, taken late in the day by a short cast in midstream at the edge of some ripples.
    John Lahr, Esquire, 16 June 2016
  • Price appeared in a video to talk about how special their moment had been but stopped midstream and walked out onto the stage to embrace the boy again.
    Mike Brehm, USA TODAY, 13 June 2019
  • The canoe reached the end of the rapids upright only to be seized by another whirlpool, which hurled it back to midstream, overturning it.
    Larry Rohter, Smithsonian Magazine, 3 Apr. 2023
  • When the rules are changed midstream, those who sacrificed under the old rules see themselves as losing out.
    Marguerite Roza, Forbes, 17 Mar. 2021
  • Tighten the muscles that stop your pee midstream for 3 seconds, relax them for 3, and repeat 10 times.
    Jon Irwin, Men's Health, 25 Oct. 2022
  • The ships trailing the Ever Given in the northbound convoy dropped anchor midstream.
    Washington Post, 31 Mar. 2021
  • The production costs will be much lower than changing midstream.
    David Phelan, Forbes, 13 Aug. 2022
  • The league was in its fallow period when the coronavirus pandemic in March forced other sports leagues to shut down in midstream.
    Ken Belson, New York Times, 1 Oct. 2020
  • The most common way to locate, isolate, and exercise your PC muscle is to stand over the toilet, start peeing, then stop midstream.
    Amanda Schupak, SELF, 18 Dec. 2015
  • But the full court agreed to rehear the case and to decide whether to take the extraordinary step to dismiss it midstream as the president's lawyers requested.
    Author: Ann E. Marimow, Jonathan O'Connell, Anchorage Daily News, 14 May 2020
  • One of the trials had such discouraging results that it was aborted midstream.
    Andrew Scull, WSJ, 18 Mar. 2018
  • Sometimes the public directives changed midstream, as scientists and doctors learned more about the virus.
    Sarah Ravani, SFChronicle.com, 19 Apr. 2020
  • However, there is an uptick in the building of midstream infrastructure, Carr and Johnson said.
    Judith Kohler, The Denver Post, 8 Oct. 2019
  • Flynn’s lawyers, joined by the Justice Department, took the rare step of asking the appeals court to intervene midstream and order Sullivan to close the case.
    Ann E. Marimow, BostonGlobe.com, 24 June 2020
  • As little as knee-deep near an island midstream, the water deepens and its current accelerates near the Texas bank.
    Dudley Althaus, San Antonio Express-News, 6 May 2021
  • Another perched comically on all fours on a small tree branch midstream.
    Carl Fincke, Washington Post, 6 Mar. 2020
  • The offensive formula the Bengals have adopted in midstream is working very well.
    Paul Daugherty, The Enquirer, 2 Dec. 2021
  • The council voted 8-6 to ask the city’s planning director to halt the city’s environmental review of the Bulgari midstream.
    Dakota Smith, Los Angeles Times, 19 Aug. 2023
  • Opponents of the idea argued that changing the rules midstream would send a terrible message for future city contracts.
    Washington Post, 10 Aug. 2021
  • Some Muni buses pull up to the sidewalk, others to linear boarding islands midstream.
    John King, SFChronicle.com, 8 Oct. 2019
  • But what faculty are now attempting — to change methods midstream on a mass scale, ditching face-to-face teaching within a week or two — has few precedents.
    Susan Svrluga, Washington Post, 14 Mar. 2020
  • Several months later, Li Jiaqi, the lipstick king, was abruptly cut off midstream.
    Vivian Wang, New York Times, 28 Apr. 2023
  • The total cooking time may only be five or so minutes, which doesn’t allow time to prepare ingredients midstream.
    Bill St. John, The Denver Post, 26 May 2017

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