How to Use centered in a Sentence

centered

adjective

• She struggled with depression for years, but she's more centered now and able to live a full life.
• Those are their thoughts and their self-centered views.
  — Raisa Bruner, Time, 6 June 2018
• How to do it: Ground down through your left foot and find a strong, centered base.
  — Hayden Carpenter, Outside Online, 9 Aug. 2019
• The protests didn’t stay centered on rising prices for long.
  — Washington Post, 16 Nov. 2019
• Venus, your planetary ruler, is out of sync with feisty Mars on the 5th, so just stay centered.
  — Katharine Merlin, Town & Country, 1 Feb. 2023
• Sure, there is stretching, centered breathing and the recitation of mantras.
  — Bridgette M. Redman, Chron, 17 June 2021
• Being independent is the best course on the 23rd, and new prospects are looking rosy on the 28th, so stay centered.
  — Katharine Merlin, Town & Country, 16 July 2023
• The new Show 8 has edge-to-edge glass, a centered camera, and a slightly different shape to its large speaker prism in the back.
  — WIRED, 20 Sep. 2023
• The first two episodes, the highlight of the five made available for review, feel more like a standalone film, so centered and complete is their plot.
  — Kelly Lawler, USA TODAY, 8 Aug. 2020
• Still, make an effort to withdraw your ego from any push for change — stay centered on results.
  — Tarot.com, Baltimore Sun, 8 Feb. 2024
• Keep your torso straight and your knee centered and stable throughout the movement.
  — Hayden Carpenter, Outside Online, 21 May 2020
• The nightlife is plentiful and centered right outside Petco Park in the Gaslamp Quarter.
  — Jon Tayler, SI.com, 18 Feb. 2018
• Instead, go with a smaller centered bed or use a larger bed and use one nightstand.
  — Amanda Lauren, Forbes, 28 Feb. 2024
• By the 2000s, though, Plimpton’s career had mostly become centered in New York.
  — Chris Jones, chicagotribune.com, 15 July 2019
• To feel more centered, take a meditative spin around the labyrinth, behind the sculpture garden.
  — Washington Post, 6 Nov. 2020
• This time around, however, the scene is less centered on angry young White men and more on women and people of color, like the members of Pinkshift.
  — Washington Post, 4 May 2022
• The houses are built of brick or stone, and feature symmetrical, flat facades with a centered front door.
  — Maggie Burch, House Beautiful, 11 Jan. 2019
• Fails, who’s only in his second movie role here, holds the camera with a calm and centered intensity.
  — Richard Brody, The New Yorker, 5 June 2019
• Transfer to the centered oven rack and bake until golden brown on top and a toothpick inserted in the center comes out clean, 55 minutes to 1 hour.
  — Jessica Battilana, San Francisco Chronicle, 23 Apr. 2021
• The majority of the cases and deaths remain centered in China.
  — CBS News, 18 Feb. 2020
• While in landscape mode, the higher, more centered camera means no more double-chin effect.
  — Nicole Nguyen, WSJ, 25 Oct. 2022
• Kevin Clay, as Mormon poster-child Elder Price, has the charm to keep his self-centered character likable and scores with his pitiable downfall.
  — Matthew J. Palm, OrlandoSentinel.com, 14 Dec. 2017
• Put your hands together in a prayer position as a centered and balanced pose to keep the center of gravity in between the right and left side.
  — Stephanie Mansour, CNN, 7 Oct. 2020
• Like Charlie, Reid is adept at play design, analyzing game film, tried to keep his ace centered ...
  — Nate Davis, USA TODAY, 26 May 2022
• Step 6: Repeat throughout the length of the hair and duplicate on the other side for a double bubble pony look, or just keep centered for one larger bubble pony.
  — Jennifer Ford, Essence, 9 Sep. 2019
• Brendan is a self-centered world traveler who is good at getting by on his father's money and is often the voice of reason.
  — Lesley Goldberg, Billboard, 7 Mar. 2019
• Zelensky set them aside and emerged to lead as a centered and liberated version of himself.
  — Erica Ariel Fox, Forbes, 28 Mar. 2022
• Those who go to court, though, face a legal system heavily influenced by male-centered views.
  — Youkyung Lee, The Christian Science Monitor, 22 Mar. 2018
• The upgrade places Super Cruise in the same sphere as Tesla's Autopilot, which can also change lanes with a tap of the signal, stay centered, brake and accelerate on its own.
  — Nathan Bomey, USA TODAY, 28 Jan. 2020
• This, in turn, builds a more resilient and centered organization.
  — John Hall, Forbes, 6 June 2021

Last Updated: 16 Oct 2024