How to Use midtown in a Sentence

midtown

noun
  • Rents in midtown are very expensive.
  • Playwrights often hone their scripts when their shows move to midtown.
    — Jackson McHenry, Vulture, 29 July 2021
  • But at one popular midtown Phoenix gay bar, the doors are locked.
    — Tirion Morris, The Arizona Republic, 9 Aug. 2021
  • But one does not casually tie the knot at an arena in bustling midtown.
    — Ramishah Maruf, CNN Money, 1 July 2026
  • What was once a vacant lot with an old-school gas station in midtown Wauwatosa is now an ice cream shop.
    — Sophia Vento, Journal Sentinel, 13 July 2023
  • The rooftop garden offers views of the tops of midtown and downtown towers.
    — Josh Barbanel, WSJ, 31 May 2018
  • Weed World trucks are disappearing from the streets of midtown!
    — Curbed, 16 June 2022
  • In midtown, bus routes 67 and 68 intersect with the last five miles of the course.
    — Sarah Linn, Sacbee.com, 5 Dec. 2025
  • Traffic in midtown barely moves for large parts of the day—and the air is often filthy with exhaust, the noise non-stop.
    — William Finnegan, The New Yorker, 24 June 2024
  • Readers lined the block around the paper’s headquarters in midtown.
    — Wesley Lowery, Washington Post, 2 Feb. 2023
  • Commuting to midtown took two and a half hours — on the rare occasions that there wasn’t any traffic.
    — Jessica Pressler, Daily Intelligencer, 15 May 2018
  • Finding his place Thomas found his place in midtown after struggling in other parts of life.
    — Graham Womack, Sacbee.com, 16 Sep. 2025
  • Bar Tab Dan Stahl grooves to a cover band in melting-pot midtown.
    — Richard Brody, New Yorker, 30 Jan. 2026
  • In midtown, this project adds raised crosswalks and native landscaping.
    — Eleanor Nash, Kansas City Star, 20 Apr. 2026
  • Sure, there were red carpet arrivals for the players and fans milling around midtown in jerseys of their favorite teams.
    — Ken Belson, New York Times, 27 Apr. 2018
  • The idea began when Aaron and Jared, who live in midtown, saw a need for a place to have a beer after work.
    — Bahar Anooshahr, The Arizona Republic, 9 Dec. 2022
  • Who knew that one of the greatest innovations was right here, sitting under our noses in midtown this whole time?
    — Steven Zeitchik, HollywoodReporter, 8 June 2026
  • Now, on average, slightly less than half the office workers in midtown come to the office.
    — William Finnegan, The New Yorker, 6 Mar. 2023
  • The median sale in central midtown last month was $1,437 per square foot.
    — Curbed, 2 Oct. 2023
  • The loss of the grand midtown movie palace is far from the only thing that’s changed for filmmaking in the intervening years.
    — Washington Post, 30 Oct. 2019
  • The new lanes run between the sidewalk and cars parked along Armour, a key east-west connector in midtown.
    — Sarah Gish, kansascity, 13 July 2018
  • The last one was at the Hofbräu Bierhaus, a very intentional beer hall in midtown.
    — Nick Paumgarten, The New Yorker, 14 May 2018
  • The decision was cost-based as the midtown facility was seen as outdated.
    — Emma Hall, Sacbee.com, 24 Apr. 2026
  • Crews have been testing in midtown since January, almost 10 months.
    — Eleanor Nash, Kansas City Star, 17 Oct. 2025
  • As New York continues to rebound and all those reasons to be in midtown were stripped away, a deeper point has emerged.
    — Elise Taylor, Vogue, 13 Apr. 2022
  • Pen Top, the hotel’s rooftop cocktail bar, is a fantastic new addition to midtown.
    — Kenne Dibner, Travel + Leisure, 19 Aug. 2025
  • That wish has been granted with the opening of a new live entertainment venue in midtown Sacramento in the spring.
    — Marcus D. Smith, Sacramento Bee, 26 Feb. 2025
  • Lopatin and Safdie spent around four months in the summer and fall of 2025 working on the score in a cramped midtown studio.
    — Jack Denton, Vulture, 30 Dec. 2025
  • The incident took place on the 1400 block Navco Road south of midtown.
    — Christopher Harress | [email protected], al.com, 21 June 2019
  • Sure, the symphony’s headquarters is in Detroit, in midtown, but that’s not in a neighborhood out in the city.
    — Rochelle Riley, Detroit Free Press, 18 Jan. 2018

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