How to Use centripetal force in a Sentence

centripetal force

noun

• Once in space, the wires are unwound by the motor, assisted by the centripetal force of the spinning craft.
  — The Economist, 21 Sep. 2017
• This spun up the larger star, and the centripetal force flung off material in a huge disk well over a light years across.
  — Phil Plait, Discover Magazine, 12 Aug. 2011
• For any object moving in a circle, there needs to be a centripetal force, or a force pulling it towards the circle’s center.
  — Rhett Allain, Wired, 7 Jan. 2022
• The spod flies through the air-centripetal force holds the crud glob in place until splashdown-then the rocker rights itself, raining a sloppy food cloud onto the lake bottom.
  — Kirk Deeter, Field & Stream, 5 Dec. 2020
• But: The centripetal force that holds the album together as a form is really starting to wobble.
  — Ben Ratliff, Esquire, 2 Dec. 2016
• The virus has been a centripetal force pushing us physically together — my children, my spouse, my work, and me — but in the best case scenario, that force will weaken soon.
  — Washington Post, 17 May 2021
• This water tornado keeps its shape because of centripetal force, which pulls the water toward the center of the bottle as gravity pulls it down.
  — Rebecca Renner, National Geographic, 10 June 2020
• For Hubble, this centripetal force is the gravitational force due to its interaction with the Earth.
  — Rhett Allain, Wired, 7 Jan. 2022
• The force that causes this circular acceleration is then called the centripetal force.
  — Rhett Allain, Wired, 11 Apr. 2020
• Think back to the vaguely familiar high school science terms of centripetal force and angular momentum.
  — Jeff Berardelli, CBS News, 8 Oct. 2020
• Such notions, notes a disinterested British official, run up against the centripetal forces that drive many EU countries to remain as close to the core as possible.
  — The Economist, 2 Nov. 2017
• The modern city was a centripetal force spinning beyond control, operating at a scale and pace that could only be inhuman.
  — Richard Cooke, The New Republic, 4 Jan. 2021
• The whole experiment takes on the look of a Gravitron ride as quadcopters whip around the pole at speeds exceeding 30 miles per hour, generating centripetal force 14 times the pull gravity.
  — Carl Engelking, Discover Magazine, 8 May 2015
• Instead, activists and political neophytes drawn into the centripetal force of Black Lives Matter in 2020 have been chastised, denigrated, and dismissed as naïve and out of touch.
  — Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor, The New Yorker, 19 Nov. 2021
• The centrifugal forces pulling Europe apart would finally overwhelm the centripetal forces binding it together.
  — Simon Nixon, WSJ, 17 Dec. 2017
• Without any mind-blowing sci-fi level breakthroughs, the only practical way to imitate gravity on a trip to Mars is by spinning the spacecraft and creating a centripetal force.
  — ABC News, 25 July 2021
• The basic concept of a O’Neill cylinder is that a spinning tube-like structure simulates gravity via a centripetal force acting on humans living on the cylinder’s inner surface.
  — Darren Orf, Popular Mechanics, 30 Jan. 2023
• Objects traveling in a circular path experience an acceleration inward towards the center of the circle and a force—the centripetal force—outward from the center.
  — Kyle Hill, Discover Magazine, 10 Dec. 2013
• These days, more of my thoughts arrive as trite, Twitter-size observations, and my more offbeat tastes have been transformed into smoother, more mainstream ones by the centripetal force of algorithmic recommendations.
  — Kevin Roose, New York Times, 16 Apr. 2020
• 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
• American leadership provides the centripetal force to consolidate documentation efforts and incorporate the rapidly coalescing array of private documentation efforts.
  — Michael A. Newton, CNN, 15 Mar. 2022

Last Updated: 2 Dec 2024