How to Use midwinter in a Sentence

midwinter

noun
  • But maybe some light for a midwinter evening walk will make up for it?
    The Editors, Outside Online, 24 Mar. 2022
  • In the bleak midwinter, a little white fox struggles to find food.
    Meghan Cox Gurdon, WSJ, 2 Dec. 2022
  • When that mail plane went down, midwinter, up at Plane Crash, Clarence somehow again was passing by and the first on the scene.
    Seth Kantner, Anchorage Daily News, 27 Oct. 2019
  • Sunrise came after the start of the school day in midwinter, and that fall U.S. returned to standard time.
    Melody Gutierrez, SFChronicle.com, 21 June 2018
  • Up next, a guide to building a joy toolbox to give yourself a midwinter boost.
    Martine Thompson, Bon Appétit, 22 Dec. 2020
  • It’s been a beloved tradition, and a midwinter salve for a city that gets brutally cold and windy that time of year.
    Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com, 26 Apr. 2023
  • Starting in midwinter, pups, which average about 75 pounds, will be born, reared and taught to swim and feed.
    Tom Stienstra, SFChronicle.com, 12 Oct. 2019
  • All season sports writers and some of the Bears had talked of how the team enjoyed playing in Chicago’s midwinter cold.
    Kori Rumore, chicagotribune.com, 19 Oct. 2021
  • Matariki is the Māori name for the Pleiades star cluster, which rises in the Southern Hemisphere around midwinter.
    Lindsey McGinnis, The Christian Science Monitor, 19 Feb. 2021
  • In midwinter tens of thousands of snow geese, ducks, pelicans, gulls and other species forage on and around the lake.
    Brent Haddad, The Conversation, 10 Jan. 2023
  • At the thrice-weekly Center Market, Alex Davis is breaking the midwinter blues by adding new items too.
    Steve Edwards, Anchorage Daily News, 17 Jan. 2018
  • A number of places have midwinter festivals that take place on the solstice.
    Devika Rao, The Week, 21 Dec. 2022
  • Opening a jar in midwinter and tasting the fatty skins takes me back up the river of my ancestors all over again.
    Frederick Olsen Jr. | Opinion, Anchorage Daily News, 31 Jan. 2018
  • The rising tensions in Ukraine are driving fears of a midwinter cutoff.
    New York Times, 15 Feb. 2022
  • Peak viewing times are the fall migration back into the sea ice and midwinter when mother bears emerge from their dens with cubs.
    Joe Yogerst, National Geographic, 9 Apr. 2019
  • And after all these years, we were caught in midwinter with the blunt truth that our achievement in Vietnam had been less than epic, a fact that touched everyone but the men who run the war.
    Esquire, 24 June 2016
  • Conditions ranging from powder to slushy corn snow are on offer well into April in many states, and best of all, most of the midwinter crowds are now gone.
    Megan Michelson, Outside Online, 8 Apr. 2021
  • There's no better time than the bleak midwinter to view the colorful works of media and graphics design artists to help lift your spirits.
    Rich Heileman, cleveland.com, 12 Jan. 2018
  • In the Arctic, travelers on snowmobiles are falling through ice in midwinter — at a time when the ice should be more than a meter thick.
    Alaska Dispatch News, 13 Aug. 2017
  • For the best wolf sightings, visit in summer or midwinter and search during the early morning.
    Kitson Jazynka, National Geographic, 2 July 2019
  • But there's a silver lining: All are worth hitting up during a midwinter break.
    Andrew Sessa, Condé Nast Traveler, 25 Nov. 2020
  • In midwinter, there would appear to be two main options: Double down or escape.
    Vogue, 26 Jan. 2018
  • The reshuffling comes amid a midwinter surge in fighting and warnings of a new Russian offensive preparing in the east.
    Isabelle Khurshudyan, Washington Post, 5 Feb. 2023
  • This cropped sweater is midwinter perfection over a wide-leg trouser.
    Halie Lesavage, Harper's BAZAAR, 8 Dec. 2022
  • Whatever part of your garden lies in shadow under the full moon in midsummer is the part that will be in shadow in the daytime in midwinter.
    Pam Peirce, SFChronicle.com, 12 July 2019
  • Call it ennui season: those weary weeks of midwinter when the holiday glow has long since receded, but spring green is still nowhere in sight.
    Sarah Karnasiewicz, WSJ, 22 Feb. 2020
  • One view of Orlando in the 1920s shows folks boating on Lake Eola during midwinter.
    Joy Wallace Dickinson, orlandosentinel.com, 2 Jan. 2022
  • In the Pantheon, in midwinter, Sophia thrust her hands into the single column of falling snow, a white ghost in the middle of the rotunda swirling down from the dome's central oculus.
    Stanley Stewart, Condé Nast Traveler, 22 Mar. 2021
  • Neither of us are even thinking of traveling, so our usual midwinter Hawaii trip is out of the question, for now anyway.
    Author: Wayne and Wanda, Anchorage Daily News, 18 Oct. 2020
  • The start of a new year is the perfect time to consider practical midwinter updates to your home that can pave the way for some major positive life changes.
    Wendy Vazquez, Better Homes & Gardens, 26 Jan. 2023

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