How to Use middle-of-the-road in a Sentence

middle-of-the-road

1 of 2 adjective
  • Most are denizens of the bright and hot sun in just about any middle-of-the-road soil.
    — Paul Cappiello, The Courier-Journal, 16 Aug. 2024
  • For a middle-of-the-road option that doesn't break the bank, this is a great choice.
    — Melinda Salchert, Southern Living, 3 Jan. 2026
  • The Clippers are middle-of-the-road.
    — Zach Harper, New York Times, 13 Apr. 2026
  • By running as middle-of-the-road centrists.
    — Stephen Moore, Boston Herald, 7 Feb. 2026
  • One middle-of-the-road season shouldn't force the team to cut ties with one of its best players.
    — Zach Pressnell, MSNBC Newsweek, 4 July 2025
  • This is a middle-of-the-road status and does come with some ok benefits.
    — David Rae, Forbes.com, 24 June 2025
  • This middle-of-the-road model seats one or two and has a speaker system.
    — Carolyn Todd, Men's Health, 3 June 2023
  • This season seems to be a middle-of-the-road year for the Bronx Bombers.
    — Zach Pressnell, MSNBC Newsweek, 28 July 2025
  • Meanwhile, the Tigers’ defense is very middle-of-the-road in most stats.
    — Shreyas Laddha, Kansas City Star, 7 Dec. 2025
  • This middle-of-the-road snow blower will clear a small driveway quickly, but won’t cost you over a grand.
    — Christopher Murray, Fox News, 10 Dec. 2024
  • And what of a middle-of-the-road dweller like Matt Hasselbeck?
    — Dave Hyde, Sun Sentinel, 7 Mar. 2026
  • Atlanta, on the other hand, is a middle-of-the-road team in both categories.
    — Arick Wierson, MSNBC Newsweek, 15 Apr. 2025
  • Economists from both sides of the aisle believe Bessent is a middle-of-the-road pick.
    — Katherine Faulders, ABC News, 22 Nov. 2024
  • This one is a good middle-of-the-road size for most spaces, with the option to mount it or use the kickstand to prop it up.
    — Sarah Madaus, Architectural Digest, 2 July 2024
  • This middle-of-the-road approach is central to a Fed comms strategy that’s worked for decades.
    — Allison Morrow, CNN Money, 28 Aug. 2025
  • Branch makes high-quality, comfortable office chairs at middle-of-the-road price points.
    — Julia Harrison, Architectural Digest, 30 Oct. 2025
  • Neither prudish nor, for the most part, smutty, the love scenes come straight out of middle-of-the-road romance novels.
    — Judy Berman, TIME, 5 Apr. 2024
  • With a good amount of turns, a middle-of-the-road speed and a good ride length, Big Bear is the Goldilocks of rides.
    — Silas Sloan, USA TODAY, 13 May 2023
  • Now the challenge is figuring out how to squeeze production out of it that’s better than middle-of-the-road.
    — Parker Gabriel, Denver Post, 15 Oct. 2025
  • By contrast, middle-of-the-road and progressive sources were fragmented.
    — Michael Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times, 21 Sep. 2023
  • Is a merely decent opening enough for a middle-of-the-road contender whose awards fortunes will live and die by its box office?
    — Nate Jones, Vulture, 5 Jan. 2024
  • Standard rooms at more middle-of-the-road properties both on- and off-property start much lower.
    — Eve Chen, USA Today, 28 Apr. 2025
  • For its part, Barclays on Wednesday issued a middle-of-the-road view on Dover.
    — Morgan Chittum, CNBC, 2 Oct. 2024
  • In all cases, 100 is considered a middle-of-the-road big-leaguer.
    — Bryce Miller, San Diego Union-Tribune, 2 Aug. 2023
  • But there may be yet another middle-of-the-road contender for the GOP to pin its hopes on.
    — Time, 29 June 2023
  • Buffalo employed a lot of middle-of-the-road wide receivers last year, and their offense was perfectly fine.
    — Zach Pressnell, MSNBC Newsweek, 8 Aug. 2025
  • So there’s an audience for a smart middle-of-the-road approach to covering politics.
    — Michael Tomasky, The New Republic, 7 June 2023
  • Despite the fact that scientists believe the cosmos is packed with these middle-of-the-road black holes, they are rarely detected.
    — Robert Lea, Space.com, 9 Dec. 2025
  • Even aiming for middle-of-the-road compromise hardware costs in the area of $5,000.
    — John Timmer, Ars Technica, 18 July 2024
  • Yet, unlike the middle-of-the-road duo, Fetterman does not wield his would-be leverage to score policy wins.
    — Ramsey Touchberry, The Washington Examiner, 26 Mar. 2026

middle of the road

2 of 2 noun phrase
  • Feel like stopping in the middle of the road?
    — Glae Thien, San Diego Union-Tribune, 8 Jan. 2026
  • On the outskirts, yet still in the middle of the road.
    — Literary Hub, 19 June 2026
  • Their secondary is middle of the road, but full of first- and second-year players.
    — J.j. Bailey, New York Times, 2 Oct. 2025
  • California was much more middle of the road.
    — Mary Gilbert, CNN Money, 12 Aug. 2025
  • People trusted him … as very impartial, middle of the road.
    — Mary Divine, Twin Cities, 23 Sep. 2025
  • At night, Martinez lay awake picturing an agent in the middle of the road raising his gun.
    — Ruby Cramer, New Yorker, 12 Mar. 2026
  • Mikel Arteta’s side are middle of the road for fouls won from defensive corners on nine.
    — Anantaajith Raghuraman, New York Times, 14 May 2026
  • After the impact, the Hyundai stopped in the middle of the road, facing westbound.
    — CBS News, 25 Nov. 2025
  • The arrest report also noted Woods swerved into the middle of the road.
    — CBS News, 8 Apr. 2026
  • That same week, a viral video showed a man getting his hair cut in the middle of the road as traffic continued around him and the barber.
    — Dean Fioresi, CBS News, 16 Feb. 2026
  • The car, a Range Rover, was on its side in the middle of the road, with numerous officers on the scene.
    — Devoun Cetoute, Miami Herald, 27 Mar. 2026
  • The driver exited the vehicle in the middle of the road at multiple points.
    — Austin Turner, CBS News, 7 Apr. 2026
  • As the pedestrian stepped into the middle of the road, Delosrios ran him over and kept going, police say.
    — Devoun Cetoute, Miami Herald, 22 Aug. 2025
  • The child was located in the middle of the road by a passerby who contacted PSP.
    — Robert McGreevy, FOXNews.com, 25 Apr. 2026
  • When visibility became too poor to continue, Carter stopped in the middle of the road.
    — Dana Goodyear, New Yorker, 22 Sep. 2025
  • One protester chained herself to a Jaguar sedan that was parked in the middle of the road with its tires slashed, according to a police report.
    — Shaddi Abusaid, AJC.com, 11 Feb. 2026
  • The plot thickens further when Bundle, driving hell-for-leather down a country lane, comes across someone lying in the middle of the road.
    — Sophie Brookover, Vulture, 15 Jan. 2026
  • One of the people — Abraham Simon, 33 — was allegedly in the middle of the road.
    — Megan Cassidy, San Francisco Chronicle, 10 Mar. 2026
  • All three of them also identified the same soldier – standing in the middle of the road, no more than 30 feet from the vehicle – as the one who opened fire.
    — Jeremy Diamond, CNN Money, 13 June 2026
  • Reilly was seen standing in the middle of the road at night time in one of the images and Benning was seen deplaning a private jet in another shot.
    — Janelle Ash, FOXNews.com, 23 Mar. 2026
  • Natalie Portman has made statements about Israel that are middle of the road, but ultimately nobody holds that against her.
    — Tatiana Siegel, Variety, 13 Nov. 2025
  • In the middle of the road at 32nd Street & Cedar Ave, a makeshift roadblock turned the intersection into a roundabout.
    — Ubah Ali, CBS News, 3 Feb. 2026
  • The kangaroo then hops across the highway — narrowly avoiding oncoming traffic — and stands still in the middle of the road before hopping further down the highway.
    — Escher Walcott, PEOPLE, 27 Apr. 2026
  • At one point, a resident placed a traffic sign in the middle of the road to try to stop the vehicles from coming in, and as many as eight vehicles became stuck trying to figure out a way to turn around.
    — Irene Wright, USA Today, 15 May 2026
  • The videos show an officer approaching an SUV stopped across the middle of the road, demanding the driver open the door and grabbing the handle.
    — Dallas Morning News, 8 Jan. 2026
  • Videos taken by bystanders and posted online show an officer approaching a vehicle stopped in the middle of the road, demanding the driver open the door and grabbing the handle.
    — Russ Bynum, Chicago Tribune, 8 Jan. 2026
  • The recordings show an officer approaching an SUV stopped across the middle of the road, demanding the driver open the door and grabbing the handle.
    — Rebecca Santana, Los Angeles Times, 9 Jan. 2026
  • The videos of the shooting show an officer approaching an SUV stopped across the middle of the road, demanding the driver open the door and grabbing the handle.
    — Tim Sullivan, Fortune, 8 Jan. 2026
  • People burned crates in the middle of the road after the market closed; soldiers stripped metal fixtures from the unoccupied institute next door; everyone lined up for the water truck, which drove up around noon.
    — Literary Hub, 3 Apr. 2026
  • Deep in the middle of a tough reelection campaign, Karen Bass has discovered the middle of the road can be a very politically dangerous place with few good options.
    — Dominic Patten, Deadline, 1 May 2026

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