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How To Use midst In A Sentence

• Amidst all that humbles and scathes; amidst all that shatters from their life its verdure, smites to the dust the pomp and summit of their pride, and in the very heart of existence writeth a sudden and "strange defeature," -- they stand erect, -- riven, not uprooted, -- a monument less of pity than of awe! The Disowned — Complete
• In the midst of the church stood 12. waxe tapers of two yards long, and a fathom about in bignesse, and there stands a kettle full of waxe with about 100. weight, wherein there is alwayes the wicke of a candle burning, as it were a lampe which goeth not out day nor night. The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation — Volume 03
• It was not a great botanic garden, but it was a lung in the midst of the crowded brick and stone of human habitation. THY BROTHER DEATH
• Down below, a mass of brank-ursine formed as it were a pedestal, from the midst of which sprang scarlet geum, rhodanthe with stiff petals, and clarkia with great white carved crosses, that looked like the insignia of some barbarous order. La faute de l'Abbe Mouret
• And while they were in the midst of their banqueting, the door was suddenly burst open, and the Dagda stood there, with his men.
• There must have been laughter amidst the apes when the Neanderthaler first appeared on earth. Autumn
• The immaculately tended gardens are an oasis in the midst of Cairo's urban sprawl.
• In the midst of a losing streak, a contingent of backup players complained about playing time.
• But he found that a traveller's life is one that includes much pain amidst its enjoyments. Chapter 2
• A dashing swashbuckler of love, loss, and revenge in the midst of a plot to hide a conspiracy involving Napoleon's return to power.