midword

Her mother listened, then put one finger on her lips, stopping her midword.

Following Magic Kathleen Duey 2010

Expense entries for both chambers can be difficult to decipher, with entries and explanations sometimes cutting off midword.

Lawmakers Keep Expenses Off-Line 2009

Judge Alito, who had been sitting without expression through Mr. Biden's musings, interrupted the senator midword, got out three sentences, then settled in for nearly 26 minutes more of Mr. Biden, with the senator doing most of the talking.

Tony Mauro wants to remind people that Joe Biden has treated a few Supreme Court nominees a little shabbily. Ann Althouse 2008

If so, did they die midword, slumped over a keyboard in some drafty garrett somewhere, or did someone handling their estate find the sweatstained manuscript left behind and think OMG!

Archive 2006-02-12 Miss Snark 2006

Judge Alito, who had been sitting without expression through Mr. Biden's musings, interrupted the senator midword, got out three sentences, then settled in for nearly 26 minutes more of Mr. Biden, with the senator doing most of the talking.

Archive 2006-01-01 Ann Althouse 2006

Just why shouldn't we pronounce the midword, inter-vowel j the same way we pronounce every other midword, inter-vowel j in the English language?

languagehat.com: BEIZHING. 2005

His pen stopped midword, and his countenance fell as his eyes flickered with something akin to anxiety.

Mending Places Denise Hunter 2004

The senator halted in midword, the speech he had been rehearsing all the way up the stairs driven clean from his head.

Dragons Of A Lost Star Weis, Margaret 2001

Bashir disappeared in midword, along with the sym-biont's chamber.

Time's Enemy Graf, L. A. 1996

But Tonya slapped at the comm control panel and the image died, cutting them off in midword.

Roger MacBride Allen, Roger MacBride 1996