Midst has 1 syllables and the stress is on the first syllable.
| # | Sentence | |
|---|---|---|
| 1. | Your gift was like discovery of an oasis in the midst of a desert. | |
| 2. | Suddenly Nancy screamed in the midst of silence. | |
| 3. | He fainted in the midst of his speech. | |
| 4. | It is a pity that some people starve to death even in the midst of plenty. | |
| 5. | Well, for the practical problem, in the midst of those rumours flying around I'm surprised they've been able to keep that club running. | |
| 6. | Your division was highly praised for fighting well in the midst of a hopeless conflict. | |
| 7. | In the midst of the dollar falling hard against the Yen and other major Eastern currencies the Chinese Yuan, with China effectively taking a 'dollar peg' policy, has become cheap. | |
| 8. | In the midst of this, it is IT that has made great progress. | |
| 9. | The most merciful thing in the world, I think, is the inability of the human mind to correlate all its contents. We live on a placid island of ignorance in the midst of black seas of infinity, and it was not meant that we should voyage far. The sciences, each straining in its own direction, have hitherto harmed us little; but some day the piecing together of dissociated knowledge will open up such terrifying vistas of reality, and of our frightful position therein, that we shall either go mad from the revelation or flee from the deadly light into the peace and safety of a new dark age. | |
| 10. | We are therefore compelled to inform our Christian family everywhere of the silent holocaust that is taking place in our midst. |