How to Use middle distance in a Sentence

middle distance

noun
  • As I looked out over the water, a small boat appeared in the middle distance.
  • His words come slowly and his gaze seems to be fixed on some middle distance.
    — Joe Morgenstern, WSJ, 2 May 2019
  • But the Ducks' strength in the middle distances wasn't enough.
    — Ken Goe, OregonLive.com, 13 May 2018
  • For the Ducks, sprints, relays and middle distances will be key.
    — Joe Fleming, USA TODAY, 5 June 2018
  • Skaters from an ice show twirl gleamingly in the middle distance.
    — Adam Gopnik, The New Yorker, 21 Feb. 2022
  • In some pieces, a ghostly cube will appear to hover in the middle distance.
    — Smithsonian Magazine, 20 Apr. 2021
  • Her skill as a hurdler and middle distance runner helped make that happen.
    — Mark Stewart, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 27 June 2018
  • Rosenfeld was a sprinter who was trying middle distance for the first time.
    — Roger Robinson, Outside Online, 14 July 2021
  • Harbaugh sits silently, then takes a deep breath and stares off into the middle distance.
    — Andy Benoit, SI.com, 2 May 2018
  • On the left, in the middle distance (not far from a cart loaded high with wheat), two monks take off their robes to swim in the pond.
    — Washington Post, 9 Mar. 2022
  • Duka was a middle distance runner then.
    — Lori Riley, Hartford Courant, 20 Apr. 2026
  • To just staring into the middle distance.
    — Charlie Warzel, The Atlantic, 15 May 2026
  • In the middle distance is a jumble of jagged ice — a pressure ridge shoved up by the ever shifting sea ice.
    — Tom Yulsman, Discover Magazine, 18 May 2017
  • The ball started low and got up over the mist and stayed up there for a while before settling somewhere in the middle distance.
    — Zach Baron, GQ, 7 Feb. 2018
  • Weeds are popping up, the scrub in the middle distance has turned golden and the serene sky above is a gradation of pale blues.
    — Christopher Knight, Los Angeles Times, 31 Oct. 2022
  • Alex, who is small and dark-haired, and who from some angles looks much younger than her thirty-six years, nodded into the middle distance.
    — Elizabeth Barber, Harper's Magazine, 2 Feb. 2024
  • The only exceptions were a half dozen shanties in the middle distance and one hulking fuel tanker near the horizon.
    — Paul A. Smith, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 20 Jan. 2018
  • With their mouths slightly open and their eyes gazing into the middle distance, their bodies are in the room, but their minds are somewhere else.
    — Meghan Cox Gurdon, WSJ, 15 Apr. 2022
  • In a moment when we’re all mandated to stay at home, staring into the middle distance, this seems, on balance, more of a plus.
    — Daphne Merkin, The New York Review of Books, 15 Apr. 2020
  • Jabari Smith stared into the middle distance, vigorously shaking his head side to side.
    — Tom Green | [email protected], al, 16 Feb. 2022
  • Often, cats will purr while doing it, and maybe even drool a little or stare off into the middle distance, zoning out in that way that only cats can.
    — Stephen C. George, Discover Magazine, 29 July 2023
  • That’s enough money to make even luxury truck buyers pause and stare thoughtfully into the middle distance.
    — New Atlas, 27 May 2026
  • Many shots commence of Keanu staring off into the middle distance, miserable.
    — Ryu Spaeth, The New Republic, 22 Dec. 2021
  • Her council is still yapping at her, and her most powerful allies are moping and staring off into the middle distance.
    — Brian Grubb, Vulture, 14 July 2024
  • Coe that summer had just started to emerge as the leading threat to Ovett’s status as the world’s premier middle distance runner.
    — Scott M. Reid, Orange County Register, 6 Aug. 2024
  • Freshman middle distance runner Lauren Bresson was the track rookie of the week.
    — courant.com, 16 Apr. 2018
  • And very empathetic for the security guards who are just kind of standing there, staring into the middle distance.
    — Mikey O'Connell, The Hollywood Reporter, 15 Aug. 2023
  • In the middle distance loomed the San Francisco skyline and neat rows of avenues, each sloping steeply to the Bay.
    — Scott Wilson, Washington Post, 11 Dec. 2020
  • Where Hansen-Løve cleaves closely to her characters, Schanelec takes a step back, filming in long and middle distance shots.
    — Sophie Monks Kaufman, IndieWire, 17 Feb. 2026
  • Schildmeyer, who developed his speed as a middle distance specialist in track, was hanging with a large pack of runners through the first mile of his heat, which was the last race of the day.
    — Rick Armstrong, chicagotribune.com, 31 Oct. 2020

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