How to Use midstream in a Sentence

midstream

noun

• No wonder that project was aborted midstream.
  — IEEE Spectrum, 26 Sep. 2016
• This is a poor time to switch horses in midstream or to make sweeping gestures.
  — Jeraldine Saunders, The Mercury News, 6 Jan. 2017
• To change the rules midstream is wrong and undermines the House.
  — Lauren Peller, ABC News, 1 Apr. 2025
• Now more than ever, investors need to stay with the best of the biggest in midstream.
  — Roger Conrad, Forbes, 24 July 2022
• The centerpin reel spun rapidly as the float splashed midstream.
  — Paul A. Smith, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 24 Mar. 2018
• Hollywood studios paid to keep the sets up for some of the movies that were shut down midstream; that pic is among them.
  — Pamela McClintock, The Hollywood Reporter, 9 Nov. 2023
• The production lost a showrunner midstream, and advance buzz has been tepid, to say the least.
  — Annalee Newitz, Ars Technica, 25 Sep. 2017
• Be careful, though, as the rocks that skirt the road are seemingly more slippery than those midstream.
  — Matt Wyatt, ExpressNews.com, 15 Oct. 2020
• The production costs will be much lower than changing midstream.
  — David Phelan, Forbes, 13 Aug. 2022
• Both play and book seem to end midstream, much as the actress soured on her interviewer in real life.
  — Jackson McHenry, Vulture, 8 Aug. 2025
• When the rules are changed midstream, those who sacrificed under the old rules see themselves as losing out.
  — Marguerite Roza, Forbes, 17 Mar. 2021
• Another perched comically on all fours on a small tree branch midstream.
  — Carl Fincke, Washington Post, 6 Mar. 2020
• Nebakh was also used to cut off a sentence midstream when the speaker felt too overwhelmed to continue.
  — Literary Hub, 20 Jan. 2026
• The afternoon produced only one trout, taken late in the day by a short cast in midstream at the edge of some ripples.
  — John Lahr, Esquire, 16 June 2016
• But there used to be agreement that the process itself should not be manipulated midstream.
  — Dan Daley, The Orlando Sentinel, 28 Apr. 2026
• But there used to be agreement that the process itself should not be manipulated midstream.
  — Dan Daley, Sun Sentinel, 27 Apr. 2026
• Price appeared in a video to talk about how special their moment had been but stopped midstream and walked out onto the stage to embrace the boy again.
  — Mike Brehm, USA TODAY, 13 June 2019
• One of the trials had such discouraging results that it was aborted midstream.
  — Andrew Scull, WSJ, 18 Mar. 2018
• An ugly snag, looking like last year’s Christmas tree, has reared itself out of the water about midstream.
  — Ralph Tuttle, Outdoor Life, 25 June 2026
• Arcade Creek ran fast and full with brown water, so high the tops of barren trees that once lined the bank instead poked through the depths midstream.
  — Anita Chabria, sacbee, 30 Jan. 2017
• Holdups on the front end ripple through the system to the midstream companies, ones that gather, process, transport and store the oil and gas.
  — Judith Kohler, Denver Post, 18 Mar. 2026
• The canoe reached the end of the rapids upright only to be seized by another whirlpool, which hurled it back to midstream, overturning it.
  — Larry Rohter, Smithsonian Magazine, 3 Apr. 2023
• Sometimes the public directives changed midstream, as scientists and doctors learned more about the virus.
  — Sarah Ravani, SFChronicle.com, 19 Apr. 2020
• Energy midstream has been a hot sector for several years, driving up share prices and driving down current yields.
  — Moneyshow, Forbes.com, 25 Apr. 2025
• Tighten the muscles that stop your pee midstream for 3 seconds, relax them for 3, and repeat 10 times.
  — Jon Irwin, Men's Health, 25 Oct. 2022
• Opponents of the idea argued that changing the rules midstream would send a terrible message for future city contracts.
  — Washington Post, 10 Aug. 2021
• Until those midstream gaps close, downstream players face single‑point‑of‑failure risk, longer logistics chains and unpredictable lead times.
  — Brendon Grunewald, Forbes.com, 18 Sep. 2025
• Some Muni buses pull up to the sidewalk, others to linear boarding islands midstream.
  — John King, SFChronicle.com, 8 Oct. 2019
• The league was in its fallow period when the coronavirus pandemic in March forced other sports leagues to shut down in midstream.
  — Ken Belson, New York Times, 1 Oct. 2020
• Watson’s lawyer said the Ozy founder stumbled upon Rao’s deceit midstream, was appalled and signaled him to hang up.
  — Paolo Confino, Fortune, 13 June 2024