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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
midair
noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
collision
▪ The simulated disaster in exercise Gryphon's Lift was a midair collision between military and civilian planes over Catterick Garrison.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ A few days before the midair save, another orb had been successfully recovered after a gentle landing in the sea.
▪ Billie seemed dazed; her eyes were directed to a point in midair somewhere beyond both men.
▪ I did not want to die impaled on a boom box during midair turbulence.
▪ My father carries me from the car and I glide up two flights of concrete steps, suspended in midair by anti-gravity.
▪ Suspended in midair, it pulsed and roiled as birds strained for position in the pack.
▪ The simulated disaster in exercise Gryphon's Lift was a midair collision between military and civilian planes over Catterick Garrison.
▪ You, with your midair dread, blindly bunched into that swinging house you call a home.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
midair

midair \mid*air"\ n. some point in the air; above ground level; as, the planes collided in midair; also used attributively; as, a midair collision.

Wiktionary
midair

a. In the act of flight; airborne. n. (context aeronautics English) a collision between two or more aerospace vehicles in flight.

WordNet
midair

n. some point in the air; above ground level; "the planes collided in midair"

Usage examples of "midair".

They bounced off the walls, did midair aerobatics that would have made the Red Baron proud.

I hit the carpeted aisleway, I grabbed him, and jumped to the pit, appearing in midair, but tumbling backward, unsettling for me, terrifying for Green-bag, who found himself facedown fifty feet in the air.

It seemed to him almost that he had not slept at all, but he could remember dreams: visions of faces floating in midair, and a woman with seven dreadful red eyes, and a land where teeth grew from the ground.

Seated in the bacchante room after dinner, I would catch her as her needle paused in midair while she stared off into space.

He did that several times, the board giving him extra altitude and a longer parabola in which to do his fantastic capers and head-to-toe backbends and legs-apart splits in midair.

On earth, performing cardiopulmonary resuscitation is demanding enough, in microgravity, it is a nightmare of complex acrobatics, with drifting equipment, tubes and tangling in midair, syringes filled with precious drugs away.

He bounded the last length toward it, twisting in midair, touching down with hind claws extended to brake.

Her hand froze in midair as she reached for the cotehardie she had chosen.

They flew, screaming, crisscrossed in midair, and both found their mark.

Then they flew, crisscrossing in midair a moment before thudding into the side of the barn.

Two Fugs were about to batter him in midair when Slick took a dip and legged it across the green plastic.

From the latest reports he heard, more than seventy aboard the Muskegon Airlines flight lost their lives, with others critically injured, and all six people died aboard the smaller airplane that had collided with the Airbus in midair.

The three women and two men demonstrated fancy ice-skating moves, jumps so high they could twist around three times, layback spins, midair splits.

Betsy was swaying and staggering from side to side, wagging her head foolishly and mooing in the most maudlin manner, while Sally, whose potations affected her quite differently, was cavorting madly thither and yonder, one moment almost standing upon her head, with hind legs and tail waving wildly in midair, the next with the order reversed and pawing frantically at the clouds.

The other exploded in midair as the surviving wingman radioed a warning.