How to Use centrifuge in a Sentence

centrifuge

noun

• All of these could withstand the force of the centrifuge.
  — Courtney Linder, Popular Mechanics, 10 Nov. 2021
• Emilio—who seems a bit like an alter ego for the artist who thought him up—emerges as a kind of centrifuge.
  — Vinson Cunningham, The New Yorker, 12 June 2023
• At one point, the blood-spinning centrifuge in one of the miniLabs blew up.
  — John Carreyrou, WIRED, 21 May 2018
• To the left of the centrifuge is a trio of fiberglass/epoxy tanks that used to be part of Seaside’s water main system.
  — Michael Alberty | For The Oregonian/oregonlive, oregonlive, 13 Feb. 2021
• Funds were so tight that one of the doctors built a homemade centrifuge for testing blood.
  — Amanda B. Moniz, Smithsonian Magazine, 23 Nov. 2020
• Then technicians spin the blood in a centrifuge to separate the cells.
  — Tim Prudente, baltimoresun.com, 31 Dec. 2020
• Blood is removed from one arm and then a centrifuge separates the platelets.
  — Lisa Maria Garza, orlandosentinel.com, 6 Sep. 2019
• In the corner of a business office was a device chugging with the rapid pulse of a high-speed centrifuge.
  — Zachariah Hughes, Anchorage Daily News, 7 Nov. 2021
• Inside the black-plastic case were the tools of her trade, including a small centrifuge.
  — Ned Rozell, Anchorage Daily News, 29 Oct. 2022
• Probably the closest thing is the centrifuge at Johnsville, Pa.
  — Joseph N. Bell, Popular Mechanics, 5 May 2021
• Changes in computer code being fed to the centrifuges caused them to speed up or slow down, and to spin out of control.
  — David E. Sanger, New York Times, 30 Aug. 2019
• From there, the blood is placed in a centrifuge to separate the different components of the blood.
  — Korin Miller, Health.com, 30 Apr. 2021
• The mix is then transferred to a second tank, where a centrifuge spins the lumpy liquid, separating the oil from the sands.
  — Clifford Krauss, The Seattle Times, 27 Aug. 2018
• The centrifuge can accommodate just one person at a time, and that helped shape the course of their training.
  — Jeffrey Kluger, Time, 6 Aug. 2021
• My next session won’t involve a centrifuge, but yours might.
  — Lindsey Ellefson, Glamour, 24 Sep. 2021
• Love and Thunder is pretty much all that again, poured into a centrifuge.
  — Leah Greenblatt, EW.com, 5 July 2022
• Spinning the mop in the centrifuge was effective in keeping this mop head clean, taking out most of the water and any solids.
  — Andrea Wurzburger, Better Homes & Gardens, 1 June 2023
• Blood is drawn, usually from the client’s arm, then placed in a centrifuge in order to separate the plasma and the platelets from red blood cells.
  — Rebecca Jennings, Vox, 14 Sep. 2018
• New York City had become a centrifuge, spitting friends out in faraway places.
  — New York Times, 23 Mar. 2021
• Johnson said the city wants to install a centrifuge to process waste oil from boats for the incinerator.
  — Christina McDermott, Anchorage Daily News, 4 Aug. 2023
• The deal placed limits on the use of centrifuges for research and development, but did not bar it outright.
  — New York Times, 14 Jan. 2020
• In processing centers on land, the livers are minced, boiled, and placed in tanks, where they’re put in a centrifuge to separate the oil from any residue.
  — Justin Meneguzzi, National Geographic, 13 Nov. 2020
• In this case, a giant centrifuge would spin the craft around in a vacuum to build up insane speed, then open a door and release it into the sky.
  — Rhett Allain, Wired, 11 Feb. 2020
• Keeping fit on the Jupiter voyage, Gary Lockwood runs in the vast centrifuge which is rather like an enclosed Ferris wheel.
  — Charles Champlin, latimes.com, 17 May 2018
• The liquid — the color varies from yellow to black — is poured into tiny test tubes and spun in a centrifuge to separate liquid from solids.
  — Washington Post, 14 Apr. 2022
• In addition to limiting the type of centrifuge Iran could use, the 2015 agreement required the removal of two-thirds of Iran’s centrifuges.
  — Laurence Norman, WSJ, 16 July 2021
• The facial involves drawing blood from a vein in your arm, which is then run through a centrifuge to extract the platelets, according to Allure.
  — Candace Braun Davison, House Beautiful, 9 Oct. 2018
• That plasma is extracted (via a spin in a centrifuge that removes red and white blood cells) and given to people who are sick with the virus, via an IV.
  — Molly Longman, refinery29.com, 25 Aug. 2020
• This dewatering occurs in centrifuges and the ‘centrate’ (the low-solids liquid that comes off the centrifuge) is sent to the wastewater treatment facility (WWTF).
  — Carlos R. Muñoz, BostonGlobe.com, 8 Mar. 2023
• Large-scale gold miners use centrifuge machines or arsenic, which does not seep into the environment.
  — Jack Nicas Ian Cheibub, New York Times, 22 Sep. 2023

Last Updated: 17 Jul 2024