Wondering how to use Middling in a sentence? Below are 10+ example sentences from authentic English texts. Including the meaning and synonyms such as average or passably.
Middling meaning
- Of intermediate or average size, position, or quality; mediocre.
- In fairly good health.
Synonyms of Middling
Using Middling
- The main meaning on this page is: Of intermediate or average size, position, or quality; mediocre. | In fairly good health.
- Useful related words include: average, immoderately, passably, fairly.
- In the example corpus, middling often appears in combinations such as: and middling, middling reviews, is middling.
Context around Middling
- Average sentence length in these examples: 25.1 words
- Position in the sentence: 7 start, 10 middle, 3 end
- Sentence types: 19 statements, 1 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Middling
- In this selection, "middling" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 25.1 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, few, growth, times, reviews, congressman and impeachment stand out and add context to how "middling" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include 2013 to middling reviews leaving and a few middling draft picks. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "middling" sits close to words such as alder, aphasia and aspirational, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with middling
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
March, it’s a middling month, isn’t it? (9 words)
A middling, to below, run defense, the Colts are allowing 4.2 yards per carry. (15 words)
Scotland’s real economic position, incidentally, is remarkably middling by both UK and EU standards. (15 words)
While TTU has struggled all conference play, Texas defense can be a good reprieve for them, a middling bunch that has struggled to defend the perimeter, allowing foes to hit on 35% of their 3-point tries in conference play. (40 words)
As its middling 65% Rotten Tomatoes score and 6.7 IMDb rating would suggest, Operation Fortune: Ruse de Guerre isn’t a mind-blowing masterpiece that will change audiences’ lives, but it’s still well worth a watch. (38 words)
If players are routinely encountering enemies weak to the launcher's damage type, they may find upgrading the launcher's damage or area of effect more worthwhile than a middling bonus to their other weapons or base stats. (38 words)
March, it’s a middling month, isn’t it? (9 words)
Example sentences (20)
Last week, the establishment media fawned over Schiff, a “middling congressman” who gave a “middling” impeachment speech.
A middling, to below, run defense, the Colts are allowing 4.2 yards per carry.
And if all that costs is a few middling draft picks and some cap creativity it’s well worth the gamble.
Another said: 'The kids that are good or middling good are already getting less teaching attention than they deserve.
As its middling 65% Rotten Tomatoes score and 6.7 IMDb rating would suggest, Operation Fortune: Ruse de Guerre isn’t a mind-blowing masterpiece that will change audiences’ lives, but it’s still well worth a watch.
If players are routinely encountering enemies weak to the launcher's damage type, they may find upgrading the launcher's damage or area of effect more worthwhile than a middling bonus to their other weapons or base stats.
If the offense is middling or just barely average, Pittsburgh is still capable of winning 9-10 games, but doing some damage beyond the regular season doesn’t seem all that likely.
I. Joe Retaliation came out in 2013 to middling reviews, leaving its strength as a franchise in jeopardy, and another G.I. Joe film wouldn't come out until 2021, when Henry Golding starred as Snake Eyes.
In fact, the reaction to was so middling that BioWare and EA later went on to cancel the game's DLC plans that previously were in place.
It received high ratings for profitability and growth, middling marks for financial strength and momentum and a low value rank.
I used to be at all times middling on the primary two Ant-Man films, which I believed had been okay, however definitely within the backside half of MCU fare.
Latecomer Tony Bellew seems to have proven a hit with viewers, boasting 11.1 odds, while Britney Spears’ younger sister Jamie Lynn Spears is currently middling with 20/1 odds.
March, it’s a middling month, isn’t it?
Middling reviews and underwhelming sales seemed to seal its fate as a big budget disappointment, while developer Luminous Productions has since been absorbed into Square Enix.
Scotland’s real economic position, incidentally, is remarkably middling by both UK and EU standards.
The first time was in 2006, and the results, while not awful, were a little middling.
The series debuted to middling reviews and harsh criticism that it was nothing like the original set of films.
The story here is middling, the content is minimal, and the romance options are subpar.
What I don't like is the underwhelming processor performance, the middling battery life, that heavy handed image processing in some photos and the fact that some of its key new features kind of feel like gimmicks.
While TTU has struggled all conference play, Texas defense can be a good reprieve for them, a middling bunch that has struggled to defend the perimeter, allowing foes to hit on 35% of their 3-point tries in conference play.
Common combinations with middling
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- and middling 9×
- middling reviews 8×
- is middling 6×
- the middling 6×
- with middling 6×
- of middling 5×
- was middling 5×
- to middling 4×
- middling to 3×
- middling team 3×