midsentence – English noun declension

English noun forms of midsentence

Noun: midsentence
Singularmidsentence

Sample Sentences

  • I was cut off in mid-sentence
  • I mean this man starts his day with both feet moving, without a dab of anxiety, with him saying, “Okay, ready!” He can fall asleep in midsentence, in his midsentence, and then go without a toss or a tumble or a single concern for the next seven hours. [1990, Emily Ellison, The Picture Makers (G.K. Hall Large Print Book Series), Boston, Mass.: G. K. Hall & Co., published 1991, →ISBN, page 142:]
  • He talked into the receiver. “Sure, I read all about it this morning. I wondered whether—” As he spoke, he reached out and pushed down on the button, breaking the connection in his midsentence. [2003, John Lescroart, The First Law, New York, N.Y.: Dutton, →ISBN, page 190:]
  • But the narrative broke off in midsentence. [2007 April 4, Alan Riding, “New Work From a Writer Who Died in the Holocaust”, in New York Times:]
  • Chief Justice Rehnquist was famous for cutting off lawyers in midsentence, even midsyllable, as soon as the red light on the lectern came on to signal that time was up. [2007 October 11, Linda Greenhouse, “Case of Texas Murderer Engrosses Supreme Court”, in New York Times:]
  • Gerbert de Montreuil picks up in the midsentence of the Second Continuation, and Manessier writes the Third Continuation. [2010, Anita Obermeier, “The Rhetoric of Symbolism: The Grail of Fertility and Sterility”, in Georgiana Donavin, Anita Obermeier, editors, Romance and Rhetoric: Essays in Honour of Dhira B. Mahoney (Disputatio; 19), Turnhout: Brepols Publishers n.v., →ISBN, section “Arthurian Literature: Composition and Production”, footnote 42, page 203:]
  • He died, in the midsentence of his life, as these books were being published. [2019, Stanley Corngold, “Philosophy as Psychology: Discovering the Mind, Volume 1, Kant, Goethe, and Hegel”, in Walter Kaufmann: Philosopher, Humanist, Heretic, Princeton, N.J.; Woodstock, Oxon: Princeton University Press, →ISBN:]

Etymology

1. Etymology tree
2. Proto-Indo-European *me
3. Proto-Indo-European *dʰeh₁-?
4. Proto-Indo-European *-dʰe
5. Proto-Indo-European *médʰi
6. Proto-Indo-European *-os
7. Proto-Indo-European *médʰyos
8. Proto-Germanic *midjaz
9. Proto-West Germanic *midi
10. Old English midd
11. Middle English mid
12. English mid
13. English mid-
14. English sentence
15. English midsentence
16. From mid- + sentence.