midwinter
IPA: mˈɪdwˈɪntɝ
noun
- The middle of winter.
- The winter solstice; about December 21st or 22nd.
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Examples of "midwinter" in Sentences
- I recall her coming in midwinter from the frozen village where she lived.
- Three months afterward, in midwinter, he smote the north shore of the Mediterranean from Gibraltar to Greece in the same stupefying manner.
- The year turns and does not know what to be, hovers in midwinter waiting for someone to show it how to bud and break forth into colour and life once more.
- Under the sun or the stars, at high noon or at midnight, in midwinter or in midsummer, it does not matter when, it is always the same temperature -- not too warm, not too cold, just right.
- But it took only a few minutes of actually reading the texts of these manuals (which are often published in midwinter to serve the many brides planning June campaigns) to bring me to my senses.
- Between the flak, the searchlights, the night fighters and the freezing, airless cold at twenty-thousand feet, bombing Germany in midwinter is no joke at all - but with some of the friends he’s got, pilot Ken Harding might not even need any enemies.
- The new finds at Durrington Walls, two miles northeast of the stone circle, indicate that the entire region was a large religious complex where the early Britons gathered in midwinter for raucous feasts and solemn ceremonies before sending their deceased on a voyage to the afterlife.
- "Once a bastion of difficulty and high seriousness - an identity that suited an event held in midwinter in a city with a vexed, often grim history - the Berlinale, which began last Thursday and concludes with awards on Sunday - has grown into something bigger, more varied and perhaps less distinctive," writes AO Scott in the New York Times.
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