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midway
1[ adverb adjective mid-wey; noun mid-wey ]
adverb
- in the middle of the way or distance; halfway.
noun
- a place or part situated midway.
- (often initial capital letter) the place or way, as at a fair or carnival, on or along which sideshows and similar amusements are located.
- the amusements, concessions, etc., located on or around this place or way.
Midway
2[ mid-wey ]
noun
- several U.S. islets in the N Pacific, about 1,300 miles (2,095 km) NW of Hawaii: Japanese defeated in a naval battle June, 1942; 2 sq. mi. (5 sq. km).
- an airport in Chicago.
midway
/ ˈmɪdˌweɪ /
adjective
- in or at the middle of the distance; halfway
noun
- a place in a fair, carnival, etc, where sideshows are located
- obsolete.a middle place, way, etc
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Example Sentences
Kind of like the feeling so many of us Lebanese have during power outages when, midway to the bathroom at 2:00 a.m., lights out.
Crow married and says that midway through the Clinton presidency his wife began to nudge him to the left.
I lifted her as high as I could midway up the slide and eased her down with a big, squeaky “wheeeeeeeeeeeeeee.”
But, midway through recording the LP, Hurricane Sandy struck and left the band rattled.
But midway through his undergraduate education at Princeton, questions of “what else?”
Midway down the page was more about the threatened strife in the numbers racket.
No gentlemen were, as yet, in their seats, and our party secured a vacant bench midway to the pulpit.
Cold moonlight stole in across the floor from the glass door and windows, and met midway the warm red glow from the fires.
His shanty stood midway in the Gap, high from the road, set against a dark clump of pines and roared at by the river beneath.
The tape should run through a slot cut in the front part of the box, about midway between the top and the bottom.
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