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Amid
"Amid" in a Sentence (14 examples)
The tower stood amid the ruins.
He is cool amid confusion.
They are amid the city noises.
She was standing amid the ruins of the castle.
The curtain fell amid the wild applause of the audience.
Go placidly amid the noise and the haste, and remember what peace there may be in silence.
Tom dashed into the room amid a shower of sparks and splinters of burning woodwork.
The art of progress is to preserve order amid change, and to preserve change amid order.
Their house lay amid a small stand of trees.
One evening, just as the sun set amid radiant clouds, there came a large flock of beautiful birds out of the bushes.
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At last the first glimpse from a bridge of an open-top red bus, and a noticeable darkening of the atmosphere from the smoke of London: then the increasingly dingy stations with double-barrel names, set amid what has always been to me the outstanding feature of the "Premier Line" approach to London—the positively marvellous display of crazy chimney-pots on the grey inner suburban houses. As many as twenty, all of varying style, standing together like ranks of jagged teeth, and providing a Dickensian back-cloth which no other route can boast.
The resulting social divisions can seem so "real" and "natural" to those living amid them that there is a strong tendency to believe that they are timeless biological or scientific facts, rather than social facts that have been assembled and built up through human effort.
Amid all the fevered anticipation of this fixture, few would have expected to witness an aesthetically pleasing example of the beautiful game.
In Osaka, the big action scenes take place with arrows as well as swords, amid glass display cases holding samurai costumes, a classic Wick setting.
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