middle
adjective
equally distant from the extremes or outer limits; central.
middles
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pluralof middle.plural
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
Example Sentences
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We're often stuck in the middles or the betweens, or even like for me, when I was successful, that was the time I was struggling the most mentally.
From Salon ● Oct. 1, 2023
We love the criminal trial for the same reason Shakespeare and Court TV loved them: Morality plays, gripping narratives, heroes and villains, and the story that begins and middles and ends.
From Slate ● Aug. 4, 2023
“We take to fiction, I suppose, because no such thing is going to happen, and at least on the printed page we can observe beginnings, middles and ends, and can find where morality resides.”
From Washington Post ● Jan. 5, 2023
He's playing really well for us and so are all our middles - it doesn't matter who comes on, they're all doing a job.
From BBC ● Nov. 2, 2022
Through the white carven carpet that had been High Street pushed four oxen, buried up to their middles, dragging behind them a heavy plow.
From "The Witch of Blackbird Pond" by Elizabeth George Speare
