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Example sentences for: amid

How can you use “amid” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

About 6 km (4 miles) south of Guardalavaca, on a hill amid a forest of lofty palms and thatched homesteads, is Chorro de Maíta, the Caribbean’s most important excavated Indian burial ground.
The center was built in the 1960s and houses scores of shops, restaurants, a hotel, and a casino amid artificial ponds and waterfalls.
Whereas the LAT lead's headline says Russia is "amid crisis," a Wall Street Journal front-page feature runs under the header: "Resilient Russia Dodges Calamities Predicted After Ruble's Collapse."
Shortly before his death in 1973, after Darger moved out to a nursing home, his landlord opened up his room and discovered, amid piles of presumably artistic debris (hundreds of pairs of smashed eyeglasses, balls of string, old pairs of shoes, scores of empty Pepto-Bismol bottles), one 2,600-page autobiography, an 11-year weather log, 87 watercolors, 67 pencil drawings, and the tale of the Vivian Girls.
2) Star forward Antonio McDyess, who had been traded from Denver to Phoenix, decided to go back to Denver, then got cold feet amid rumors that he might go back to Phoenix.