[
UK
/mɪdˈeə/
]
[ US /ˈmɪˈdɛɹ/ ]
[ US /ˈmɪˈdɛɹ/ ]
NOUN
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some point in the air; above ground level
the planes collided in midair
How To Use midair In A Sentence
- a lamppost was there and then it wasn't snow started to spit and lemons fell like pale tears while we stood and talked of all that had passed silent between us and you laughing suggested we make love in midair over the angry Italian chop Falling
- Or they make up their own dives on the spot, sometimes while in midair -- improvisation that frequently leads to the kind of painful bellyflop that causes spectators to groan with a combination of sympathy and mirth
- Melody grabs it in midair, puts it on a plate, spreads a little deviled ham on, and then flips the egg onto it.
- The jet exploded in midair and turned into a fireball.
- The bateau is a thin flat wafer that flies very fast and then rotates in midair so the shooter can see it and get a shot off. Undefined
- A mental snapshot of him conjures not a face but a ribbon of pipe smoke emanating from behind an open volume, an omnipresent red pen poised in midair for the next margin note. 2009 December 09 | NIGEL BEALE NOTA BENE BOOKS
- Lon McFane leaped from the woodpile, countering him in midair. The Men of Forty-Mile
- He was close to giving up art, but then won a Hamlyn Foundation award in 2004: "It was like being refuelled in midair when I was considering making an emergency landing," he says. Art and design: the ones to watch in 2012
- Perhaps to minimize the number of pedestals or vitrines, many of the items in the show are displayed in containers that look like pneumatic tubes, held taut in midair by cables stretching from ceiling to floor.
- The plate soared through the air, slicing the twilight, before a bullet made contact with it, shattering the porcelain dish in midair.