Explore Middlebrow through 5 example sentences from English, with an explanation of the meaning and related words like person or individual. Ideal for language learners, writers and word enthusiasts.
Middlebrow in a sentence
Middlebrow meaning
Neither highbrow or lowbrow, but somewhere in between.
Using Middlebrow
- The main meaning on this page is: Neither highbrow or lowbrow, but somewhere in between.
- Useful related words include: person, individual, someone, somebody.
Context around Middlebrow
- Average sentence length in these examples: 25 words
- Position in the sentence: 1 start, 3 middle, 1 end
- Sentence types: 5 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Middlebrow
- In this selection, "middlebrow" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 25 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, class, mass, audiences and audience stand out and add context to how "middlebrow" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include but never middlebrow its cast and by such middlebrow mass appeal. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "middlebrow" sits close to words such as aaas, aacc and aacs, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with middlebrow
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
Penguin aimed at an educated middle class "middlebrow" audience. (9 words)
According to academic Greg Taylor, auteur theory also helped to popularize cult films when middlebrow audiences found an accessible way to approach avant-garde film criticism. (26 words)
Chandler once said that only he and Marilyn Monroe had managed to “reach all the brows” — highbrow, lowbrow and middlebrow — an observation echoed by the director Billy Wilder. (28 words)
High, low, but never middlebrow, its cast includes: Roland Barthes, Benny Hill, Rachel Roberts, George Sanders, Muriel Spark, Andy Warhol and Kingsley Amis; ie it could have been written expressly for me. (32 words)
There was a time when the Great White Way was dominated by such middlebrow, mass-appeal fare, with the late, great Neil Simon as the chief avatar of the genre. (30 words)
Chandler once said that only he and Marilyn Monroe had managed to “reach all the brows” — highbrow, lowbrow and middlebrow — an observation echoed by the director Billy Wilder. (28 words)
Example sentences (5)
High, low, but never middlebrow, its cast includes: Roland Barthes, Benny Hill, Rachel Roberts, George Sanders, Muriel Spark, Andy Warhol and Kingsley Amis; ie it could have been written expressly for me.
Chandler once said that only he and Marilyn Monroe had managed to “reach all the brows” — highbrow, lowbrow and middlebrow — an observation echoed by the director Billy Wilder.
There was a time when the Great White Way was dominated by such middlebrow, mass-appeal fare, with the late, great Neil Simon as the chief avatar of the genre.
According to academic Greg Taylor, auteur theory also helped to popularize cult films when middlebrow audiences found an accessible way to approach avant-garde film criticism.
Penguin aimed at an educated middle class "middlebrow" audience.