midphrase

My invitée would begin her sentences with vous, then change to tu midphrase, and I sensing my guest to be ill at ease would replace my tu with vous, until, in the end, we had somehow settled the matter.

Words in a French Life Kristin Espinasse 2007

She stopped in midphrase, then erupted to her feet, pea shells flying everywhere.

Through Wolfs Eyes 2001

The sound of a communicator being urgently flipped open stopped him in midphrase.

STRANGE NEW WORLDS Dean Wesley Smith 1998

The sound of a communicator being urgently flipped open stopped him in midphrase.

STRANGE NEW WORLDS Dean Wesley Smith 1998

The polka was cut off in midphrase and was replaced with a slow fox-trot.

Give Us Forever Peale, Constance F. 1982

Again in midphrase, the fox-trot was replaced with the "Blue Danube."

Give Us Forever Peale, Constance F. 1982

"Chikurai Gosho" "Bamboo Soundings in Five Movements", an evocative, fiercely difficult work by Makoto Moroi, required of Mr. Mitsuhashi broad leaps in register, biting attacks and articulation shifts in midphrase, even midnote.

NYT > Home Page By STEVE SMITH 2010

"Chikurai Gosho" "Bamboo Soundings in Five Movements", an evocative, fiercely difficult work by Makoto Moroi, required of Mr. Mitsuhashi broad leaps in register, biting attacks and articulation shifts in midphrase, even midnote.

NYT > Home Page By STEVE SMITH 2010

It was as though they’d got bored, or not been able to understand her handwriting, and a lot of sentences petered out midphrase.

A House in Fez SUZANNA CLARKE 2007

It was as though they’d got bored, or not been able to understand her handwriting, and a lot of sentences petered out midphrase.

A House in Fez SUZANNA CLARKE 2007