How to Use middle-of-the-road in a Sentence

middle-of-the-road

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• With a good amount of turns, a middle-of-the-road speed and a good ride length, Big Bear is the Goldilocks of rides.
  — Silas Sloan, USA TODAY, 13 May 2023
• But there may be yet another middle-of-the-road contender for the GOP to pin its hopes on.
  — Time, 29 June 2023
• This middle-of-the-road model seats one or two and has a speaker system.
  — Carolyn Todd, Men's Health, 3 June 2023
• Neither prudish nor, for the most part, smutty, the love scenes come straight out of middle-of-the-road romance novels.
  — Judy Berman, TIME, 5 Apr. 2024
• In all cases, 100 is considered a middle-of-the-road big-leaguer.
  — Bryce Miller, San Diego Union-Tribune, 2 Aug. 2023
• This is, in my opinion, a good middle-of-the-road length and weight that will cover the bases for boat- and shore-based pursuits and a wide variety of lure styles.
  — Joe Cermele, Field & Stream, 25 Apr. 2023
• People liked its middle-of-the-road consistency: not too fudgy, not too cakey.
  — Becky Krystal, Washington Post, 17 Jan. 2024
• That makes Utah a pretty middle-of-the-road state in terms of dog ownership: 33rd in the U.S. in terms of the percentage of households that have dogs, 31st in dogs per household.
  — Andy Larsen, The Salt Lake Tribune, 2 Sep. 2023
• The medium variant is the middle-of-the-road scenario provided by the United Nations.
  — Carlotta Dotto, CNN, 28 Apr. 2023
• This grill was middle-of-the-road in terms of performance — there were noticeable hot spots around the edges of the cooking area, but food placed in the middle of the grill was cooked nicely.
  — Camryn Rabideau, Peoplemag, 10 Apr. 2023
• Is a merely decent opening enough for a middle-of-the-road contender whose awards fortunes will live and die by its box office?
  — Nate Jones, Vulture, 5 Jan. 2024
• By contrast, middle-of-the-road and progressive sources were fragmented.
  — Michael Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times, 21 Sep. 2023
• Because your average, middle-of-the-road restaurant is still full service, but that price point is not quite high enough to pay for everything.
  — Julia Moskin, New York Times, 27 Feb. 2024
• At a campaign stop earlier this month, Ryan said many of Vance's comments are alienating middle-of-the-road voters.
  — Haley Bemiller, The Enquirer, 25 Aug. 2022
• Underworld figures who knew the younger Castro described him as a middle-of-the-road presence who never seemed to make trouble.
  — Matthew Ormseth, Los Angeles Times, 6 June 2024
• So there’s an audience for a smart middle-of-the-road approach to covering politics.
  — Michael Tomasky, The New Republic, 7 June 2023
• Virgin Plus's ratings were middle-of-the-road in 2022, but survey respondents are much happier this year.
  — Ben Gottesman, PCMAG, 17 May 2023
• Now, both are trying to smooth their hard edges to win over the middle-of-the-road voters who will likely decide the victor in the Arizona Senate race -- and, possibly, control of the entire chamber.
  — Tal Axelrod, ABC News, 2 Apr. 2024
• This time, Trump has chosen a middle-of-the-road approach and eschewed the traditional hierarchy.
  — Thomas Beaumont, BostonGlobe.com, 13 Mar. 2023
• The station carried a variety of formats, including what used to be called middle-of-the-road music, news-talk and modern country music.
  — Chris Foran, Journal Sentinel, 12 Feb. 2024
• At 1/100 of a second, disposable cameras have a good middle-of-the-road setting for basic photography.
  — Lauren Breedlove, Travel + Leisure, 14 June 2023
• He was lightly recruited before landing at Iowa State, a middle-of-the-road program in the powerful Big 12 Conference.
  — David K. Li, NBC News, 10 Feb. 2024
• Questions about Middle East politics and the Israel-Gaza conflict dovetailed with the discussion about taking more middle-of-the-road positions at times.
  — Lisa Hagen, Hartford Courant, 30 Mar. 2024
• Two seats are open this year on the state's middle-of-the-road Supreme Court, and state Republicans are targeting the state's 25-year-old ruling declaring the state constitution's right to privacy covers abortions.
  — Tal Axelrod, ABC News, 21 Mar. 2024
• This is an excellent middle-of-the-road boot for a beginner-to-intermediate downhill skier who doesn’t need a super soft boot, but isn’t in the market for a hard-charging model.
  — Maggie Slepian, Travel + Leisure, 28 Nov. 2023
• The company, which has been posting pretty middle-of-the-road results, had previously been trying to win over suppliers that were dropping out of Bed, Bath, & Beyond’s roster.
  — Ananya Bhattacharya, Quartz, 23 June 2023
• Splurging for an extra fancy shock isn’t typically worth it, at least in my experience— the extra weight of an e-bike can make middle-of-the-road suspension feel excellent.
  — Mike Kazimer, Outside Online, 20 Feb. 2023
• If even these middle-of-the-road precursors couldn’t find room for the accessible sports dramedy, that’s probably the end of its run as a dark-horse Oscar player, and therefore curtains for Davis’s Supporting Actress hopes.
  — Vulture, 8 Dec. 2023
• In general, though, these are a great middle-of-the-road option for prescription sunglasses, with a starting point of less than $100 (though that can increase depending on your personal prescription needs).
  — Sarah Bradley, Verywell Health, 26 June 2023
• Without really understanding what a Christmas card (or even a snowman) means, the tech was trying to find statistically middle-of-the-road responses to my prompt based on piles and piles of training images.
  — Geoffrey A. Fowler, Washington Post, 13 Dec. 2023

Last Updated: 9 Jun 2024