middling

You could have schools with very middling results that are serving very disadvantaged kids and really contributing quite a lot to their education.

I could ride a shortboard, get the occasional good wave, and stay out of the way of better surfers, but I had always been middling at best.

The Clippers had little fan support, and they oscillated between being league bottom-dwellers and a middling franchise.

When a once-celebrated author winds up teaching in a middling MFA program, he’s sure he’s squandered his chance at lasting success — until one of his promising pupils dies, inspiring the novelist to claim the student’s book idea as his own.

Murphy had middling approval ratings before the pandemic, with one in five voters holding no opinion of how he was doing.

He was living under the alias Alonso Rivera Muñoz as a middling real estate developer and art collector in Querétaro.

After a few middling seasons from the revered hometown team, a few of the neighbors raised their eyebrows in surprise at the news.

What if he had tried to come back, only to play a couple middling seasons and then grudgingly retire or, worse, become a backup?

Unlike hoity-toity displays of pedigree fluff, the Average Joe Cat Show is a celebration of middling felines.

This is a middling jobs report for the middle of the business cycle.

I presume there will be more middling and half middling yields within twenty miles of Paris than in all Belgium.

Nothing keeps longer than a middling fortune, and nothing melts away sooner than a large one.

She worked me middling hard for about an hour, and then the widow made her ease up.

The head is conical, and of a middling size, with respect to the bulk of the body.

Little did he think that that middling oat-bearing land was being minded and brooded upon.