Midst

//mɪdst//

"Midst" in a Sentence (15 examples)

Your gift was like discovery of an oasis in the midst of a desert.

Suddenly Nancy screamed in the midst of silence.

He fainted in the midst of his speech.

It is a pity that some people starve to death even in the midst of plenty.

Well, for the practical problem, in the midst of those rumours flying around I'm surprised they've been able to keep that club running.

Your division was highly praised for fighting well in the midst of a hopeless conflict.

In the midst of the dollar falling hard against the Yen and other major Eastern currencies the Chinese Yuan, with China effectively taking a 'dollar peg' policy, has become cheap.

In the midst of this, it is IT that has made great progress.

The most merciful thing in the world, I think, is the inability of the human mind to correlate all its contents. We live on a placid island of ignorance in the midst of black seas of infinity, and it was not meant that we should voyage far. The sciences, each straining in its own direction, have hitherto harmed us little; but some day the piecing together of dissociated knowledge will open up such terrifying vistas of reality, and of our frightful position therein, that we shall either go mad from the revelation or flee from the deadly light into the peace and safety of a new dark age.

We are therefore compelled to inform our Christian family everywhere of the silent holocaust that is taking place in our midst.

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Miss Phyllis Morgan, as the hapless heroine dressed in the shabbiest of clothes, appears in the midst of a gay and giddy throng; she apostrophises all and sundry there, including the villain, and has a magnificent scene which always brings down the house, and nightly adds to her histrionic laurels.

At dawn, in the midst of a mist that is both literal and the unformed shifting of thought, he encounters a young fox pup playfully shaking a bone.

As he said in "I Have a Dream," the Negro "lives on a lonely island of poverty in the midst of a vast ocean of material prosperity."

Mildred comes home from work early only to discover her husband, Robert, midst of a lewd affair with their neighbor, Gladys.

She puts the period often from his place ; And 'midst the sentence so her accent breaks

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