How to Use centripetal in a Sentence

centripetal

adjective

• But even this most epic of tales is shaped by the centripetal forces of human nature.
  — Megan Garber, The Atlantic, 5 May 2021
• Centrifugal throws things out and away, and centripetal pulls inward like a whirlpool.
  — Julie Beck, The Atlantic, 23 July 2021
• At such an instant in such a case, the force pushing towards the center of the circle (thus the centripetal force) would be the centrifugal force.
  — Rhett Allain, WIRED, 26 Apr. 2009
• Tiffany seems intent on staying close to her centripetal father.
  — Alessandra Stanley, New York Times, 1 Oct. 2016
• But filmmakers soon grasped the centripetal seductions of the human face in tight focus.
  — Margaret Talbot, The New Yorker, 6 Dec. 2021
• Stacked guitar swells break away at the song’s midpoint, low and rumbling, stepping just ahead of the beat; the effect is wistful and centripetal, the sound of moving forward with friends who know your past.
  — The New Yorker, 21 Apr. 2017
• That means the centripetal acceleration is also in the downward direction and towards the center of the circle.
  — WIRED, 25 Sep. 2022
• The clean, centripetal choreography that once stood for the global has given way to contaminated streams and surges.
  — Jason Farago, New York Times, 25 Mar. 2021
• What about the magnitude of the centripetal acceleration?
  — Rhett Allain, Wired, 15 Oct. 2021
• Here is a diagram showing the forces with a centripetal acceleration.
  — WIRED, 25 Sep. 2022
• However, adopting a mindset that encompasses centrifugal and centripetal forces will help HR managers maintain balance on the fulcrum of inward and outward trends.
  — Naira Velumyan, Forbes, 18 Mar. 2021
• The contemporary designs in the show, with their striking colors, detailed craftsmanship and conceptual twists, can seem light years away from their sturdy, functional ancestors, like a centripetal spring chair made by Thomas Warren in 1849.
  — Emily Ferguson, WSJ, 1 Oct. 2021
• The three women are bound together with a centripetal intensity, in a hothouse of family mythology that Marilyn herself cultivates and tends.
  — Richard Brody, The New Yorker, 3 Aug. 2022
• These emerging centripetal forces couldn’t have come at a more inopportune time, with the U.K. hailing its departure from the EU as a fundamental reason behind its successful vaccination rollout.
  — Christiaan Hetzner, Fortune, 21 May 2021
• The gravitational force makes the planet accelerate and move around in a circle (centripetal acceleration).
  — Rhett Allain, Wired, 8 Mar. 2021
• The actor seems always right at home in Almodóvar’s off-kilter universe, where the gravitational pull of philosophical pathos and nakedly honest emotion balances out the centripetal forces of absurdist humor and erotic camp.
  — Sergio Burstein, Los Angeles Times, 18 June 2022
• The magnitude of acceleration for an object like this is called centripetal acceleration (which means center-pointing).
  — Rhett Allain, Wired, 16 Jan. 2021
• The evidence suggests that there are centripetal forces that keep metropolitan areas from continually expanding outward, and that centripetal force is going to remain.
  — Ian Duncan, Washington Post, 2 Dec. 2022
• And even where Republicans represent urban and/or coastal communities, or high-immigration populations, the centripetal power of the GOP’s core constituencies make compromise difficult.
  — Ed Kilgore, Daily Intelligencer, 16 Feb. 2018

Last Updated: 13 Dec 2024