How to Use Middle America in a Sentence

Middle America

noun
  • And Middle America is excellent for thrift stores with rare finds.
    — Amanda Lauren, Forbes, 29 Dec. 2022
  • But even in Middle America, gizzard shad and alewife movements get the channel cats charged up.
    — Joe Cermele, Outdoor Life, 9 Apr. 2026
  • From my perspective, in this industry, we had been told time and again that our stories wouldn’t connect with Middle America.
    — Marlow Stern, Rolling Stone, 14 Aug. 2023
  • Romance in Middle America doesn’t need grand gestures — just the right room, the right meal and the kind of ambiance that invites couples to lean in a little closer.
    — Susan Stapleton, Des Moines Register, 6 Feb. 2026
  • Acute heat waves in Middle America, some of which can last for days and weeks, are becoming more common under a warming climate, scientists say.
    — Daniel Cusick, Scientific American, 24 Aug. 2022
  • Women embraced fitness via Jazzercise, and yoga found its way into homes across Middle America.
    — German Lopez, New York Times, 16 Jan. 2025
  • The press speculation is that the new company is focusing more on what’s seen as ‘Middle America’ content.
    — Jennifer Maas, Variety, 30 Jan. 2023
  • That’s the mystery, and it’s resolved in a way that puts a haunting cast of mythology over the spiritual despair of Middle America.
    — Owen Gleiberman, Variety, 13 June 2022
  • Projections for the weekend are in the single digits, but the distrib hopes that Middle America turns out and gets this into double digits over the four days.
    — Anthony D'alessandro, Deadline, 1 Sep. 2024
  • On Friday night, a storm spawned tornadoes across much of Middle America, with Kentucky taking the brunt of the damage.
    — Bill Bowden, Arkansas Online, 14 Dec. 2021
  • Bryan responded the show would not be greenlit today because Hollywood seems to have stopped catering to Middle America.
    — Chris Gardner, The Hollywood Reporter, 22 June 2023
  • From the West Coast to Middle America, dessert creators at state fairs are hawking their own confections based on Dubai chocolate.
    — Nick Duffy, NBC news, 17 Aug. 2025
  • Three Billboards was savaged in some corners as a depiction of Middle America written by someone who had clearly never spent much time there.
    — Vulture, 21 Oct. 2022
  • More importantly for Harris, Walz knows how to sell that message in a way that resonates with Middle America — and across the country.
    — Patricia Lopez, The Mercury News, 6 Aug. 2024
  • In that moment the routines of Middle America collided with the dark reality of modern cybercrime.
    — Emil Sayegh, Forbes.com, 20 Aug. 2025
  • Even research into the impact of water on landlocked Middle America has shown that the Great Lakes have a positive influence on health.
    — Kaelyn Lynch, Outside Online, 8 June 2020
  • But her desire to make 007 into a cuddly hero for Middle America made Broccoli wince, according to multiple sources.
    — Michael Schneider, Variety, 28 Mar. 2025
  • Finding out that inflation is even worse in Japan may be little consolation to the average voter in Middle America still struggling with the high cost of living.
    — Matt Egan, CNN, 27 June 2023
  • Everyone knows what a Paramount+ show is now – the action, the solid Middle America, Sheridan-esque premium brand.
    — Erik Hayden, HollywoodReporter, 8 Aug. 2025
  • The match Bigelow and Oppenheim light in it is an out-of-nowhere strike launched from somewhere in the the Pacific toward Middle America, its author unknown.
    — Steven Zeitchik, HollywoodReporter, 29 Sep. 2025
  • But one exploring the historical sites and beauty of the United States would be remiss to fly over the significance of Middle America.
    — Usa Today Network, USA Today, 10 June 2026
  • Such harassment and intimidation isn’t confined to Middle America.
    — Kenny Torrella, Vox, 7 Feb. 2025
  • This collision creates frequent earthquakes along the Middle America Trench, an offshore fault system that runs parallel to the Pacific coast.
    — Gabe Whisnant, MSNBC Newsweek, 3 Dec. 2025
  • On Monday Beyond the absurdly dark humor and brutal kills, the movie emphasizes many Middle America struggles while playing on the myths people create to cope with the world.
    — Glenn Garner, Deadline, 10 Mar. 2025
  • Voters formerly saw Wallace as a sober representative of Middle America’s values.
    — Ron Grossman, Chicago Tribune, 4 Aug. 2024
  • Biden’s 2024 reëlection campaign looks to be about co-opting Trumpism, with its angry but compelling pitch to the voters of Middle America about the unfairness of it all.
    — Susan B. Glasser, The New Yorker, 8 Feb. 2023
  • Some stations use new tools to draw in a listening audience, and millennials are increasingly seeking out more affordable (and plentiful) living space in Middle America.
    — Sarah Baird, New York Times, 11 July 2023
  • Kendra Scott exploded first throughout what is somewhat paternalistically known as Middle America before then spilling into coastal markets, in part on the wings of social media platforms.
    — Lauren Puckett-Pope, ELLE, 13 Dec. 2022
  • For all his virtuosity, Wallace specialized in erudite neurotics from Middle America who suffer from various degrees of mental illness.
    — Jonathan Russell Clark, Los Angeles Times, 1 Apr. 2022
  • Kansas City, a relatively humble town tucked away in Middle America, the smallest of the 2026 World Cup’s metro areas, felt like an afterthought.
    — Henry Bushnell, New York Times, 19 Feb. 2026

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