: a point or region in the air not immediately adjacent to the ground
the planes collided in midair
Examples of midair in a Sentence
The two planes collided in midair.
We watched birds catching insects in midair.
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A couple of years later, Exod paired things down with the release of Monolith, a one-person inflatable that was also equally comfortable on the forest floor or suspended in midair.
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Michael Franco, New Atlas, 11 July 2024
Ukrainian soldiers remotely controlling quadcopters are now engaging in midair dogfights, searching for blind spots to knock out the rudders of uncrewed Russian crafts rigged with bombs.
—Anna Mulrine Grobe, The Christian Science Monitor, 24 June 2024
The bad news was that its parachute broke away in midair, drifting slowly to the ground as the rocket plummeted downward and landed with a whack.
—Silas Allen, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 27 June 2024
The dispatch came a day after South Korea’s military said North Korea had launched what appeared to be a hypersonic missile off its east coast that exploded in midair.
—Reuters, NBC News, 27 June 2024
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Michael Franco, New Atlas, 11 July 2024
Ukrainian soldiers remotely controlling quadcopters are now engaging in midair dogfights, searching for blind spots to knock out the rudders of uncrewed Russian crafts rigged with bombs.
—Anna Mulrine Grobe, The Christian Science Monitor, 24 June 2024
The bad news was that its parachute broke away in midair, drifting slowly to the ground as the rocket plummeted downward and landed with a whack.
—Silas Allen, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 27 June 2024
The dispatch came a day after South Korea’s military said North Korea had launched what appeared to be a hypersonic missile off its east coast that exploded in midair.
—Reuters, NBC News, 27 June 2024
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“Midair.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/midair. Accessed 26 Jul. 2024.
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midair
noun
mid·air
ˈmid-ˈa(ə)r 
-ˈe(ə)r
: a point or region in the air not very close to the ground
planes collided in midair
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