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Example sentences for "midair"

Lexicographically close words:
microwaves; micturition; mid; mida; midafternoon; midday; middel; midden; middens; middes
  1. I remember the dazing blow of the instrument board as my head had snapped forward against it from the sudden lurch of the midair failure, and dimly then the slow, limp slumping into unconsciousness.

  2. A friend of mine was once chased and rammed in midair by a drunken pilot.

  3. This species also sings in midair on the wing, but its song is a crude, half-inarticulate affair, barely audible from a height of two hundred feet.

  4. But the labor is done cheerfully, with many a sally in midair either to let off superfluous high spirits or to catch a morsel on the wing, and with many a vivacious outburst of what by courtesy only we may name a song.

  5. Sudden, nervous, spasmodic sallies in midair to seize insects on the wing.

  6. It is the bird of the open plains, a tireless hunter in midair sallies from an isolated perch, and has the same vibrating motion of the tail that the Eastern ph[oe]be indulges in when excited.

  7. Both Japs saw that a midair crash was about to take place, and both frantically tried to swerve off into the clear.

  8. And that was just a great ball of flame and smoke that hovered in midair for a moment or two before it started dropping earthward trailing behind a long column of fluffy black.

  9. I could not remain suspended in midair for any length of time: the fall of the house at the northwest corner of Harrison and Second Streets must mark my fall.

  10. Yes, I do," said the little captain of the midair craft.

  11. They climbed the flank of an omnibus and rode down to the Washington Arch in a midair snapping with bunting.

  12. Insect life hung midair like a curtain of buzzings.

  13. He had the cut of a nautical man from head to foot, while whoever saw a man hang so comfortably in midair at the end of but a single rope but a sailor?

  14. Suspended in midair Dick and his friends listened to the roar of the shells, to the clatter of tumbling masonry, and to the explosions that followed with feelings which can hardly be described as precisely comfortable.

  15. He liked to tow something that would cause the Oyster Forks to pause in midair and the Catty Ones to reach for their Hardware.

  16. Boy and camera turned over in midair and alighted, amid a shower of cones, in the top of a young spruce tree.

  17. Together we revolved, that sheep and I, the camera being abandoned in midair to shift for itself.

  18. Dave left the sentence hanging in midair and shook his head as though to drive away the heart-chilling memory.

  19. His hand suddenly froze in midair as the inter-ship communication speaker fitted into the Ready Room wall started barking out words.

  20. It was a slight shift, barely enough to make the kicker miss, and two powerful hands closed upon that flying foot in midair like the sprung jaws of a bear-trap.

  21. A tall corsair, bounding over the rail, was met in midair by the Cimmerian's great sword, which sheared him cleanly through the torso, so that his body fell one way and his legs another.

  22. The arrow was a flying beam of moonlight that flashed onward with but a blur in its course, but the were-beast plunged convulsively in midair and crashed headlong, shot through and through.

  23. The fighting in midair was desultory but deadly.

  24. The clock may be placed on a pedestal, in an upright position, or hung in midair on two ribbons or strings.

  25. The knife broke on the Cimmerian's mail, and the ax checked in midair as Conan's fingers locked like iron on the descending arm.

  26. The female was speared on the horn of a buffalo, but she flipped in midair and sank her teeth into the leather shielding on its neck.

  27. She poised in midair for a long moment, then groaned farther into the sand.

  28. It is the bird of the open plains, a tireless hunter in midair sallies from an isolated perch, and has the same vibrating motion of the tail that the Eastern phoebe indulges in when excited.

  29. The Sirius had stopped in midair and they could see, far in the distance, the tiny sphere of the Jovians, rushing to the attack.

  30. The "Barkodar" had dropped down into a line of sister ships, and had gone into action in midair against a veritable swarm of foes.

  31. In midair he crossed his feet twice and even three times, before alighting.

  32. The twilight was of a milky opal hue, which concentrated in a midair layer, while the ground air cleared up and allowed a tolerably extended view.


  33. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "midair" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.