How to Use middle-of-the-road in a Sentence

middle-of-the-road

1 of 2 adjective

• Most are denizens of the bright and hot sun in just about any middle-of-the-road soil.
  — Paul Cappiello, The Courier-Journal, 16 Aug. 2024
• For a middle-of-the-road option that doesn't break the bank, this is a great choice.
  — Melinda Salchert, Southern Living, 3 Jan. 2026
• The Clippers are middle-of-the-road.
  — Zach Harper, New York Times, 13 Apr. 2026
• By running as middle-of-the-road centrists.
  — Stephen Moore, Boston Herald, 7 Feb. 2026
• One middle-of-the-road season shouldn't force the team to cut ties with one of its best players.
  — Zach Pressnell, MSNBC Newsweek, 4 July 2025
• This is a middle-of-the-road status and does come with some ok benefits.
  — David Rae, Forbes.com, 24 June 2025
• This middle-of-the-road model seats one or two and has a speaker system.
  — Carolyn Todd, Men's Health, 3 June 2023
• This season seems to be a middle-of-the-road year for the Bronx Bombers.
  — Zach Pressnell, MSNBC Newsweek, 28 July 2025
• Meanwhile, the Tigers’ defense is very middle-of-the-road in most stats.
  — Shreyas Laddha, Kansas City Star, 7 Dec. 2025
• Its score in cost & financing, meanwhile, was more middle-of-the-road.
  — Ahmed Jawadi, USA Today, 12 Aug. 2026
• This middle-of-the-road snow blower will clear a small driveway quickly, but won’t cost you over a grand.
  — Christopher Murray, Fox News, 10 Dec. 2024
• And what of a middle-of-the-road dweller like Matt Hasselbeck?
  — Dave Hyde, Sun Sentinel, 7 Mar. 2026
• Atlanta, on the other hand, is a middle-of-the-road team in both categories.
  — Arick Wierson, MSNBC Newsweek, 15 Apr. 2025
• Economists from both sides of the aisle believe Bessent is a middle-of-the-road pick.
  — Katherine Faulders, ABC News, 22 Nov. 2024
• This one is a good middle-of-the-road size for most spaces, with the option to mount it or use the kickstand to prop it up.
  — Sarah Madaus, Architectural Digest, 2 July 2024
• This middle-of-the-road approach is central to a Fed comms strategy that’s worked for decades.
  — Allison Morrow, CNN Money, 28 Aug. 2025
• Branch makes high-quality, comfortable office chairs at middle-of-the-road price points.
  — Julia Harrison, Architectural Digest, 30 Oct. 2025
• Neither prudish nor, for the most part, smutty, the love scenes come straight out of middle-of-the-road romance novels.
  — Judy Berman, TIME, 5 Apr. 2024
• With a good amount of turns, a middle-of-the-road speed and a good ride length, Big Bear is the Goldilocks of rides.
  — Silas Sloan, USA TODAY, 13 May 2023
• Now the challenge is figuring out how to squeeze production out of it that’s better than middle-of-the-road.
  — Parker Gabriel, Denver Post, 15 Oct. 2025
• By contrast, middle-of-the-road and progressive sources were fragmented.
  — Michael Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times, 21 Sep. 2023
• Is a merely decent opening enough for a middle-of-the-road contender whose awards fortunes will live and die by its box office?
  — Nate Jones, Vulture, 5 Jan. 2024
• Standard rooms at more middle-of-the-road properties both on- and off-property start much lower.
  — Eve Chen, USA Today, 28 Apr. 2025
• For its part, Barclays on Wednesday issued a middle-of-the-road view on Dover.
  — Morgan Chittum, CNBC, 2 Oct. 2024
• In all cases, 100 is considered a middle-of-the-road big-leaguer.
  — Bryce Miller, San Diego Union-Tribune, 2 Aug. 2023
• But there may be yet another middle-of-the-road contender for the GOP to pin its hopes on.
  — Time, 29 June 2023
• Buffalo employed a lot of middle-of-the-road wide receivers last year, and their offense was perfectly fine.
  — Zach Pressnell, MSNBC Newsweek, 8 Aug. 2025
• So there’s an audience for a smart middle-of-the-road approach to covering politics.
  — Michael Tomasky, The New Republic, 7 June 2023
• Despite the fact that scientists believe the cosmos is packed with these middle-of-the-road black holes, they are rarely detected.
  — Robert Lea, Space.com, 9 Dec. 2025
• Even aiming for middle-of-the-road compromise hardware costs in the area of $5,000.
  — John Timmer, Ars Technica, 18 July 2024

middle of the road

2 of 2 noun phrase

• Feel like stopping in the middle of the road?
  — Glae Thien, San Diego Union-Tribune, 8 Jan. 2026
• On the outskirts, yet still in the middle of the road.
  — Literary Hub, 19 June 2026
• Their secondary is middle of the road, but full of first- and second-year players.
  — J.j. Bailey, New York Times, 2 Oct. 2025
• California was much more middle of the road.
  — Mary Gilbert, CNN Money, 12 Aug. 2025
• People trusted him … as very impartial, middle of the road.
  — Mary Divine, Twin Cities, 23 Sep. 2025
• At night, Martinez lay awake picturing an agent in the middle of the road raising his gun.
  — Ruby Cramer, New Yorker, 12 Mar. 2026
• Mikel Arteta’s side are middle of the road for fouls won from defensive corners on nine.
  — Anantaajith Raghuraman, New York Times, 14 May 2026
• After the impact, the Hyundai stopped in the middle of the road, facing westbound.
  — CBS News, 25 Nov. 2025
• The counter argument is there is a lack of middle of the road tough-out 8-4 types, which is accurate.
  — Pete Sampson, New York Times, 13 July 2026
• The arrest report also noted Woods swerved into the middle of the road.
  — CBS News, 8 Apr. 2026
• Rowan is not a middle of the road Republican or never-Trumper.
  — Readers Speak, Hartford Courant, 5 Aug. 2026
• Cars stopped in the middle of the road as drivers got out to celebrate with the masses, music blaring from the stereos.
  — Ben Church, CNN Money, 6 July 2026
• That same week, a viral video showed a man getting his hair cut in the middle of the road as traffic continued around him and the barber.
  — Dean Fioresi, CBS News, 16 Feb. 2026
• The car, a Range Rover, was on its side in the middle of the road, with numerous officers on the scene.
  — Devoun Cetoute, Miami Herald, 27 Mar. 2026
• The driver exited the vehicle in the middle of the road at multiple points.
  — Austin Turner, CBS News, 7 Apr. 2026
• As the pedestrian stepped into the middle of the road, Delosrios ran him over and kept going, police say.
  — Devoun Cetoute, Miami Herald, 22 Aug. 2025
• The child was located in the middle of the road by a passerby who contacted PSP.
  — Robert McGreevy, FOXNews.com, 25 Apr. 2026
• When visibility became too poor to continue, Carter stopped in the middle of the road.
  — Dana Goodyear, New Yorker, 22 Sep. 2025
• One protester chained herself to a Jaguar sedan that was parked in the middle of the road with its tires slashed, according to a police report.
  — Shaddi Abusaid, AJC.com, 11 Feb. 2026
• The plot thickens further when Bundle, driving hell-for-leather down a country lane, comes across someone lying in the middle of the road.
  — Sophie Brookover, Vulture, 15 Jan. 2026
• One of the people — Abraham Simon, 33 — was allegedly in the middle of the road.
  — Megan Cassidy, San Francisco Chronicle, 10 Mar. 2026
• All three of them also identified the same soldier – standing in the middle of the road, no more than 30 feet from the vehicle – as the one who opened fire.
  — Jeremy Diamond, CNN Money, 13 June 2026
• Reilly was seen standing in the middle of the road at night time in one of the images and Benning was seen deplaning a private jet in another shot.
  — Janelle Ash, FOXNews.com, 23 Mar. 2026
• Natalie Portman has made statements about Israel that are middle of the road, but ultimately nobody holds that against her.
  — Tatiana Siegel, Variety, 13 Nov. 2025
• In the middle of the road at 32nd Street & Cedar Ave, a makeshift roadblock turned the intersection into a roundabout.
  — Ubah Ali, CBS News, 3 Feb. 2026
• The kangaroo then hops across the highway — narrowly avoiding oncoming traffic — and stands still in the middle of the road before hopping further down the highway.
  — Escher Walcott, PEOPLE, 27 Apr. 2026
• At one point, a resident placed a traffic sign in the middle of the road to try to stop the vehicles from coming in, and as many as eight vehicles became stuck trying to figure out a way to turn around.
  — Irene Wright, USA Today, 15 May 2026
• The videos show an officer approaching an SUV stopped across the middle of the road, demanding the driver open the door and grabbing the handle.
  — Dallas Morning News, 8 Jan. 2026
• Videos taken by bystanders and posted online show an officer approaching a vehicle stopped in the middle of the road, demanding the driver open the door and grabbing the handle.
  — Russ Bynum, Chicago Tribune, 8 Jan. 2026
• The recordings show an officer approaching an SUV stopped across the middle of the road, demanding the driver open the door and grabbing the handle.
  — Rebecca Santana, Los Angeles Times, 9 Jan. 2026