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01. Could I have a [medium] pizza with pepperoni and extra cheese?
02. Denise and her husband are both quite short, but their children are of [medium] height.
03. Police say the man wanted in connection with the murder is of [medium] height and build.
04. I ordered a hamburger, a large fries and a [medium] chocolate shake for you.
05. Computers have become an extremely effective [medium] for the buying and selling of merchandise.
06. The painting was done in two [mediums] - oil paint mixed with charcoal drawings.
07. I'll have my steak [medium], please.
08. English is used as a [medium] of instruction in more and more countries around the world.
09. T. S. Eliot observed that television is a [medium] of entertainment which permits millions of people to listen to the same joke at the same time, and yet remain lonesome.
10. Marshall McLuhan once said that the [medium] is the message.
11. The man who robbed the bank is said to be of [medium] height, with brown hair and blue eyes.
12. Water is the main [medium] of transportation within our bodies.
13. We grew bacteria in a watery [medium] in our biology class.
14. We went to see a [medium], who tried to summon up the spirit of my dead grandfather.
15. My grandmother often consults a [medium] who claims that she can communicate with the dead.
16. I think that the suggestion that certain people are [mediums] who can make contact with beings living in the spiritual world is a load of nonsense.

Grammatical examples in English. 2013.

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