How to Use centrality in a Sentence

centrality

noun

• Thomas is particularly good at depicting the centrality of the Devil in ordinary life.
  — James Wood, The New Yorker, 5 Aug. 2024
• What’s changed is the centrality of the courts in those fights.
  — Matt Ford, The New Republic, 30 Dec. 2019
• Perhaps the biggest of all has to do with the centrality of plot.
  — Charles McNulty, Los Angeles Times, 14 Feb. 2024
• The centrality of Zhao in Gewirtz’s picture of the 1980s is double-edged.
  — Chang Che, The New Republic, 27 Oct. 2022
• The centrality of the Covid pandemic to every facet of our lives is one of those things.
  — Timothy Noah, The New Republic, 5 Nov. 2021
• The towns along the route display the centrality of farming in the Central Valley.
  — New York Times, 20 Apr. 2022
• But, in the mid-sixties, jazz lost its grip on the American mainstream and was swept away by the new centrality of rock.
  — Richard Brody, The New Yorker, 10 Mar. 2023
• Last night’s Loeb Awards were one more reminder of the centrality of health in our lives, in business, and in the economy at large.
  — Clifton Leaf, Fortune, 28 June 2017
• Yet the centrality of the bill has never quite been clearly stated.
  — Robinson Meyer, The Atlantic, 13 Apr. 2021
• The other critical factor, as Haslam suggests, is the centrality of the suburbs to the 2018 midterms.
  — Eric Levitz, Daily Intelligencer, 28 Feb. 2018
• Schaefer, from Zappos, said that the centrality of returns to the business’s sales model means that the price of service has long been baked in.
  — Amanda Mull, The Atlantic, 7 Oct. 2021
• One principle the Wine Advocate won't change: the centrality of the 100-point scale for scoring wines.
  — Esther Mobley, San Francisco Chronicle, 2 Dec. 2021
• Annette is the name of Ann and Henry’s daughter, and to explain her centrality to the narrative may be to risk a spoiler or two.
  — New York Times, 5 Aug. 2021
• This has now been put to rights with a $13 million construction project, which has restored the centrality of the library to the Morgan campus.
  — Michael J. Lewis, WSJ, 27 July 2022
• If so, their return will attest to the centrality of jazz in Chicago culture.
  — Howard Reich, chicagotribune.com, 28 Dec. 2020
• Zeus marked the spot with a stone called the omphalos (navel), to signify the location’s centrality.
  — National Geographic, 12 Mar. 2019
• Plays that lack centrality, however, need voice to take its place.
  — Wei-Huan Chen, Houston Chronicle, 15 Feb. 2018
• Has Silicon Valley lost some of the centrality for tech work?
  — WSJ, 21 Oct. 2021
• Sankovitch mentions Samuel Adams often in the course of the book, but the centrality of his role in bringing things to a boil sometimes feels slighted in favor of the exploits of his more famous cousin.
  — Steve Donoghue, The Christian Science Monitor, 15 Apr. 2020
• The Witch is a slow-burn contemplation on the centrality of religion and the fear of damnation in 17th-century lives and a jarring one at that.
  — Jason Herbert, Smithsonian Magazine, 31 Dec. 2019
• The centrality of this role answers the question of patient privacy, or what the president’s physician can (or should) tell the press.
  — George J. Annas, STAT, 14 Oct. 2020
• The question that has not been engaged enough is the centrality of immigration to the country’s future.
  — Jason Deparle, New York Times, 5 Mar. 2020
• Austen demonstrates the centrality of Cabrini-Green to Chicago's sense of itself.
  — Maya Dukmasova, Chicago Reader, 30 Jan. 2018
• With further study, its centrality to the outbreak has become less clear, the annex reveals.
  — Nick Paton Walsh, CNN, 25 May 2021
• No other single venue better expresses the centrality of the Grand Tour to British culture in Soane’s time.
  — Tom L. Freudenheim, WSJ, 1 Sep. 2017
• Moonbug’s existence is a case study on the centrality of YouTube to the kid’s entertainment world.
  — Kate Knibbs, WIRED, 18 July 2023
• The novel wants to stress the centrality of Igbo faith in the lives of its characters, yet the story itself seems to show the gods’ irrelevance to the machinery of fate.
  — Sam Sacks, WSJ, 11 Jan. 2019
• But since more news has dribbled out about the scale of the attack and SolarWinds’ centrality to it, sentiment shifted hard.
  — Dan Gallagher, WSJ, 28 Dec. 2020
• And there are lots of languages with features not found in English, such as the clicks of some African languages or the centrality of intonation in Mandarin.
  — John Timmer, Ars Technica, 20 May 2024
• The centrality of democracy reform as a means of enacting change is not new.
  — Adam Eichen, The New Republic, 2 July 2019

Last Updated: 20 Nov 2024