middling

How To Use middling In A Sentence

• The principal beneficiaries of these grants were the middling and lesser nobility.
• The miller knows that there should be a difference in the dress for hulling stones, splitting or cracking stones, wheat stones, middlings stones and vertical burr stones.
• middlings" for pancakes at home, when her mother was tired of buckwheat. A Little Girl of Long Ago
• This means that a few get top marks, a big bunch get middling marks, and a few come near the bottom.
• Evidence shows that smallholders and cottagers were less likely to have kinsmen on the manor than large or middling tenants.
• The montage of icons does cohere into a sort of meta-icon perhaps, of dogs that are (for me) short-haired, middling-sized, with dark-brown fur; but this is … a sort of cubist collage of perspectives that spills out beyond its casual frame, each dog a Cerberus with three heads superimposed one over the other, snub-nosed and long-snouted, ears pricked and flattened, slavering and not slavering. Archive 2009-07-01
• The title accurately expresses the contents, which largely ignore the "middling sort. The Two Thompsons
• There were of course some local merchants and shopkeepers, but the size of this middling group was small. World History: Patterns of Change and Continuity
• La Croix of the machine which has since been called the purifier, which removed the dirt and light impurities from the refuse middlings in the same manner that dust and chaff are removed from wheat by a fanning mill. Scientific American Supplement, No. 275, April 9, 1881
• To say it has been a whirlwind for the 26-year-old would be like saying Franz Ferdinand's year was, well, fair to middling.