How to Use middle distance in a Sentence

middle distance

noun

• As I looked out over the water, a small boat appeared in the middle distance.
• But the Ducks' strength in the middle distances wasn't enough.
  — Ken Goe, OregonLive.com, 13 May 2018
• For the Ducks, sprints, relays and middle distances will be key.
  — Joe Fleming, USA TODAY, 5 June 2018
• On the left, in the middle distance (not far from a cart loaded high with wheat), two monks take off their robes to swim in the pond.
  — Washington Post, 9 Mar. 2022
• His words come slowly and his gaze seems to be fixed on some middle distance.
  — Joe Morgenstern, WSJ, 2 May 2019
• The ball started low and got up over the mist and stayed up there for a while before settling somewhere in the middle distance.
  — Zach Baron, GQ, 7 Feb. 2018
• Weeds are popping up, the scrub in the middle distance has turned golden and the serene sky above is a gradation of pale blues.
  — Christopher Knight, Los Angeles Times, 31 Oct. 2022
• In some pieces, a ghostly cube will appear to hover in the middle distance.
  — Smithsonian Magazine, 20 Apr. 2021
• In the middle distance is a jumble of jagged ice — a pressure ridge shoved up by the ever shifting sea ice.
  — Tom Yulsman, Discover Magazine, 18 May 2017
• In the middle distance loomed the San Francisco skyline and neat rows of avenues, each sloping steeply to the Bay.
  — Scott Wilson, Washington Post, 11 Dec. 2020
• Skaters from an ice show twirl gleamingly in the middle distance.
  — Adam Gopnik, The New Yorker, 21 Feb. 2022
• Harbaugh sits silently, then takes a deep breath and stares off into the middle distance.
  — Andy Benoit, SI.com, 2 May 2018
• Rosenfeld was a sprinter who was trying middle distance for the first time.
  — Roger Robinson, Outside Online, 14 July 2021
• The only exceptions were a half dozen shanties in the middle distance and one hulking fuel tanker near the horizon.
  — Paul A. Smith, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 20 Jan. 2018
• Mike’s staring into the middle distance and holding a beer.
  — Daniel D'addario, Variety, 10 Nov. 2021
• Her skill as a hurdler and middle distance runner helped make that happen.
  — Mark Stewart, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 27 June 2018
• With their mouths slightly open and their eyes gazing into the middle distance, their bodies are in the room, but their minds are somewhere else.
  — Meghan Cox Gurdon, WSJ, 15 Apr. 2022
• As Becca rejoins Wills and Jason, Leo stands alone in the waves staring off into the middle distance.
  — Melissa Locker, Time, 10 July 2018
• In a moment when we’re all mandated to stay at home, staring into the middle distance, this seems, on balance, more of a plus.
  — Daphne Merkin, The New York Review of Books, 15 Apr. 2020
• Freshman middle distance runner Lauren Bresson was the track rookie of the week.
  — courant.com, 16 Apr. 2018
• Still looming in the middle distance is Biden's first State of the Union, a moment advisers hope to use to define the first year of Biden's presidency on their own terms.
  — Kevin Liptak, CNN, 1 Jan. 2022
• Often, cats will purr while doing it, and maybe even drool a little or stare off into the middle distance, zoning out in that way that only cats can.
  — Stephen C. George, Discover Magazine, 29 July 2023
• Night is falling in New Mexico, and while Katie is staring off into the middle distance, the Elders are approaching like jaguars in the night.
  — Ali Barthwell, Vulture, 8 June 2021
• Schildmeyer, who developed his speed as a middle distance specialist in track, was hanging with a large pack of runners through the first mile of his heat, which was the last race of the day.
  — Rick Armstrong, chicagotribune.com, 31 Oct. 2020
• The pair share a long hug, as Harvey gazes sadly into the middle distance and tries to imagine a future with Katherine Heigl by his side instead of Mike.
  — Emma Dibdin, Harper's BAZAAR, 26 Apr. 2018
• As the waters of Lake Champlain sparkled in the middle distance, there was both happiness and incredulity at Balint’s historic run for office.
  — Joanna Slater, Washington Post, 27 Oct. 2022
• Scouring the middle distance for signs of impending peril, they ...
  — Charles C. W. Cooke, National Review, 16 Aug. 2023
• Jabari Smith stared into the middle distance, vigorously shaking his head side to side.
  — Tom Green | [e-mail], al, 16 Feb. 2022
• As his alarm clock flashes 12:12, the future Fox Sports lead analyst wakes up with a Bowman card on his nightstand and looks into the middle distance with a mixture of seeming relief and awe — maybe at what could have been.
  — Anna Lazarus Caplan, Peoplemag, 12 Dec. 2023
• Common symptoms include one curl tumbling over your brow, staring wistfully into the middle distance, and post-Hellenistic thoughts.
  — Grace Henes, The New Yorker, 29 Nov. 2023

Last Updated: 1 Sep 2024