Half the distance

Usage examples of midway.

Midway was too small for a giant elephant-cage antenna, so instead they used vertical wires.

Esmay moved to a seat midway up on the left side, and then spotted Barin, front row right, already seated and looking compact and composed.

Midway along the humpy back there rode a second, seemingly female creature.

This time as they met midway the Sieur de la Montaigne reined in his horse.

Since the human soul is midway between spiritual substances and corporeal things, it is perfected naturally in two ways.

Even while it was in progress Yamamoto, the Japanese Admiralissimo, was preparing to challenge American power in the Central Pacific by seizing Midway Island, with its airfield, from which Pearl Harbour itself, another thousand miles to the east, could be threatened and perhaps dominated.

By now scarcely able to contain his exuberance, he resurveyed the spent form of the prince arrived in his Chamber of Midway.

Honing Spruit Station, about midway between Kroonstad and Roodeval, was the scene of his new raid.

Standing, as she now did, in the midway of the present, looking with single gaze on past and future, she saw at once the honest striver after good in his yesterday-life rise to his reward in the life of to-day, and the dishonest rich and powerful sitting in the high places of to-day cast down into the gutterways of to-morrow.

Her name was Ethel Sump, and she had seen Close Encounters of the Third Kind sixteen times, seventeen if you counted the time she sat through it four times in one evening and fell asleep midway through the midnight showing, only to wake up on the floor of the deserted theater the next morning to the sound of her dry popcorn belch.

We passed several islands on which were strangely shaped circular buildings, apparently roofless, and pierced midway between the ground and their tops with small, heavily barred windows.

He strode past loitering townies along the midway and entered the pad room where the troupers dressed and prepared for their entrance.

Minutes ago the deserted midway was shadow-swathed and mostly undivulged, but now it was like a prison yard bathed in the merciless glare of a dozen giant arc lamps that melted all the shadows and evaporated every sheltering pocket of darkness.

That afternoon, we sat midway between the cavernous fireplace with its still-glowing coals and a window unshuttered to freshen the room with spring breeze-breath now and again.

Guest, his head clerk, upon the other, and midway between, at a nicely calculated distance from the fire, a bottle of a particular old wine that had long dwelt unsunned in the foundations of his house.