How to Use midair in a Sentence

midair

noun

• The two planes collided in midair.
• We watched birds catching insects in midair.
• The ball smacked off the glass, and Tillman soared midair with two hands and threw it down.
  — Chris Solari, Detroit Free Press, 12 Feb. 2020
• While the plane spiraled to the ground, its fuselage tore apart in midair, videos of the crash showed.
  — Sammy Westfall, Washington Post, 25 Aug. 2023
• Some of the walls are missing so that the arch of the roof and a second-floor window hang in midair.
  — Sam Hurwitt, The Mercury News, 5 Apr. 2017
• While the six-hour flight was midair, Uskanli, with his head swathed in a blanket, tried to get to the front of the plane.
  — Washington Post, 23 May 2017
• Smart soared and stuffed Barrett in midair, but may have swiped his arm, too.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 2 Nov. 2019
• The researchers learned how the tiny hexapods control their jumps, self-right in midair, and land on their feet in the blink of an eye.
  — IEEE Spectrum, 21 Aug. 2022
• Just above camp the two met in what appeared to be a midair, talon-to-talon collision.
  — Steve Meyer, Anchorage Daily News, 23 Jan. 2018
• The bouquet of flowers Julia had dropped freezes in midair.
  — Shirley Li, The Atlantic, 27 Sep. 2024
• In a video of the event, captured just after 8 p.m. local time, a ball of flame shoots across the sky and explodes in midair.
  — National Geographic, 9 Oct. 2017
• The owner looked up at me startled, holding his spoon in midair.
  — Saïd Sayrafiezadeh, The New Yorker, 2 May 2022
• The idea of both series is essentially the same: to pull hues off the canvas and float them in midair.
  — Mark Jenkins, Washington Post, 28 Oct. 2022
• The Thorns remained on their heels for the next few minutes, with Ali Krieger taking a shot in midair in the eighth minute that went wide.
  — oregonlive, 9 July 2023
• Snow fluttered in the gray morning light, their flakes melting in midair.
  — Bill Livingston, cleveland.com, 28 Oct. 2017
• Spontaneous applause broke out in midair on some flights on the news.
  — The Editorial Board, WSJ, 19 Apr. 2022
• Beams snapped in midair or were crushed by falling debris.
  — Atul Bhattarai, The Christian Science Monitor, 17 July 2017
• Parts of the engine began to strip off as it was engulfed in flames, and debris dropped in midair.
  — Ivan Pereira, ABC News, 22 Feb. 2021
• First, the president tweeting this in midair about the big summit.
  — Fox News, 13 June 2018
• Or pinch-and-zoom to see if there's fishing wire suspending them in midair.
  — Candace Braun Davison, House Beautiful, 11 Oct. 2018
• The assassin then holds its prey in midair until the light has faded from all four sets of eyes.
  — National Geographic, 11 Jan. 2018
• In both photos, Biles was suspended in midair above the beam with her legs spread in a split and her arms held out wide.
  — Esme Mazzeo, Peoplemag, 27 July 2024
• Each is hung in midair with a single cable from headers hidden in the walls.
  — Judy Rose, Detroit Free Press, 23 Nov. 2019
• Others, according to a new study, wrestle the males away in midair.
  — Claire Hogan, Science | AAAS, 12 Aug. 2021
• The owl dangled motionless in midair until rescuers were able to reach it and clip the lines.
  — Michelle Lou, CNN, 5 July 2019
• What’s even more surprising was his very fast reflex to catch it with one hand in midair.
  — Jessica Roiz, Billboard, 11 Sep. 2023
• Collins slid over and met Carter-Williams in midair, but the Magic guard absorbed the contact, double-clutched and put the ball off the backboard.
  — Roy Parry, orlandosentinel.com, 10 Oct. 2019
• Jyair kept throwing up his water bottle and trying to catch it midair, on the way down.
  — The Enquirer, 22 Aug. 2022
• Two big white cabbage moths locked together in midair and then flew as one.
  — Nara Schoenberg, Chicago Tribune, 26 May 2022
• In the case of the man who created Erin, the miracle also happened in midair.
  — David L. Coddon, San Diego Union-Tribune, 13 May 2021

Last Updated: 23 Dec 2024