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Definition of "amidst" []

  • Variant of amid. (preposition)

American Heritage(R) Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright (c) 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

Use "amidst" in a sentence
  • "Cyclist Floyd Landis, who won the Tour de France in 2006 only to lose his title amidst doping charges, which at the time he denied, has now decided to cop to them."
  • "But he found that a traveller's life is one that includes much pain amidst its enjoyments."
  • "Well, in amidst this anxiety and sense of being like a spider with everybody pulling on a different leg, there is some news I consider positive."