How to Use midpoint in a Sentence

midpoint

noun
  • The team is in last place at the midpoint of the season.
  • The crowd begins to leave after the midpoint of the final period.
  • The train stopped to refuel at the midpoint between New York and Chicago.
  • At the midpoint of the 2020 season, the Browns got a bye week.
    — Hayden Grove, cleveland, 27 Dec. 2020
  • With the loss, the Heat fell to a middling 21-20 at the midpoint of their schedule.
    — Ira Winderman, Sun Sentinel, 9 Jan. 2023
  • The Knicks won for the third time in four games to reach the midpoint of their schedule at 20-21.
    — Brian Mahoney, courant.com, 10 Jan. 2022
  • Backing out the tax-rate change, the midpoint would be $4.37 a share.
    — Jeff Marks, CNBC, 5 Mar. 2025
  • Sport mode keeps the engine on and is a great midpoint.
    — K.c. Colwell, Car and Driver, 6 Mar. 2023
  • The Blue Devils went up 22 at the midpoint of the second half.
    — Chris Solari, Detroit Free Press, 4 Dec. 2019
  • The Blue Devils went up 21 by the midpoint of the second half.
    — Chris Solari, Detroit Free Press, 4 Dec. 2019
  • The two rays of light from points A and B meet at the midpoint, M, on the embankment.
    — Kat Friedrich, Popular Mechanics, 25 July 2023
  • The border between the states is the midpoint of the bridge, which is about a mile from Hoover Dam.
    — Richard Ruelas, azcentral, 1 June 2020
  • Calderwood looks for a takedown at the midpoint of the round.
    — Todd Martin, Los Angeles Times, 7 Sep. 2019
  • But near the midpoint of that season, he was traded to the Jets.
    — Dallas News, 14 Dec. 2020
  • The Brewers have a 47-35 record one game past the midpoint of their season.
    — John Perrotto, Forbes, 5 July 2022
  • If not for Wells, the Cougars would have trailed by more than six points at the midpoint of the second half.
    — Jon Wilner, The Mercury News, 21 Mar. 2024
  • The Bengals rolled the dice on a fourth-and-1 from their own 30 at the midpoint of the second quarter.
    — cleveland, 25 Sep. 2021
  • Moyle looks for a takedown at the midpoint of the round but Whitmire blocks it and lands a knee.
    — Lance Pugmire, latimes.com, 7 July 2018
  • The Wings had three shots after the first period, five at the midpoint, and 20 at the end.
    — Helene St. James, Detroit Free Press, 16 Apr. 2022
  • That sounds like $4 or 5 million, which is the midpoint of the two options.
    — Glenn Kessler, chicagotribune.com, 5 June 2018
  • Now, at the midpoint of the season, the Coyotes find themselves in the throes of a playoff race.
    — Jenna Ortiz, The Arizona Republic, 13 Jan. 2024
  • Four were from swimming at the meet’s midpoint, but that’s by a team that won 16 in Rio.
    — Mark Zeigler, San Diego Union-Tribune, 28 July 2021
  • Bring the bottom corner of the nori to the middle of the nori sheet, so that the midpoint of the bottom of the nori becomes the point of the cone.
    — Chronicle Staff, San Francisco Chronicle, 11 June 2018
  • The midpoint of the zone was a synagogue that is at the center of the state’s worst outbreak.
    — New York Times, 10 Mar. 2020
  • As planned, the Wings changed goaltenders during a timeout near the midpoint of the game.
    — Helene St. James, Detroit Free Press, 29 Sep. 2022
  • The club is winless at the midpoint of a 10-game road trip that started with a sweep in New York.
    — Joe Noga, cleveland, 27 Apr. 2022
  • Acuna took a first step toward the the midpoint between the mound and first base.
    — Charles Odum, sun-sentinel.com, 7 Sep. 2020
  • The three Supreme Court picks could still be on the court at the 21st century’s midpoint, 30 years from now.
    — Mark Sherman, Anchorage Daily News, 26 Dec. 2020
  • With their low lift and barely-there straps, the sandals hit a midpoint between ease and intention.
    — Maggie Clancy, Footwear News, 22 June 2025
  • Satin: Satin is the midpoint between matte and radiant.
    — Bestreviews, Mercury News, 9 May 2025

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