How to Use concentric in a Sentence

concentric

adjective

• The house, which is modeled around four concentric circles, is three stories tall.
  — Madeleine Luckel, Vogue, 1 May 2017
• In a squat’s concentric phase, as the legs extend to stand, the gluteus contracts to pull the hips forward.
  — Jamie Lauren Keiles, The New Yorker, 6 Apr. 2017
• On leaves, brown to black spots form and enlarge, developing concentric rings.
  — The Editors Of Organic Life, Good Housekeeping, 21 July 2015
• Arrange half the butternut squash in the bottom of the pan, in concentric circles.
  — Woman's Day Kitchen, Woman's Day, 6 Nov. 2014
• Nestled inside that machine are a series of rotating, concentric rings.
  — David Biello, Scientific American, 23 Sep. 2010
• The cells fit snugly into two little hollows, one in each of the concentric circles that make up the body of the Front & Back clock.
  — Charlie Sorrel, WIRED, 22 June 2010
• Forming nine concentric rings, the tall hedges (now of boxwood) lead to a lookout tower in the center, which is reached by ascending a double-spiral staircase.
  — Brynn Mannino, Woman's Day, 30 Sep. 2010
• The angular, concentric rings on a diamondback terrapin’s carapace form the bold pattern that lends this turtle its wonderful name.
  — Dave Taft, New York Times, 8 July 2016
• The study participants received a diagram with three concentric circles around a square representing the pet owner.
  — Carolyn Crist, Fox News, 20 Dec. 2016
• The house is the the 12-foot wide set of concentric rings wrapped around the center, or the button.
  — Khadrice Rollins, SI.com, 29 Nov. 2017
• The 400-acre site holds five mounds and six C-shaped concentric ridges.
  — Livia Gershon, Smithsonian Magazine, 8 Sep. 2021
• Arrange half of the squash in the bottom of the pan in concentric circles.
  — Taylor Murray, Good Housekeeping, 18 Aug. 2021
• The new pill shape was designed to be concentric to the corners.
  — David Phelan, Forbes, 31 Oct. 2021
• The novel grows, as a tree grows, in a series of concentric rings.
  — Dan Cryer, San Francisco Chronicle, 5 Apr. 2018
• Their eyes are locked on the target, called the house, which are the concentric circles at the other end.
  — Alan Berner, The Seattle Times, 18 Feb. 2018
• The trail’s concentric loops can be hiked alone or tacked onto a longer trek.
  — Sarah Meehan, Howard County Times, 3 May 2018
• The still explosions on the rocks, the lichens, grow by spreading, gray, concentric shocks.
  — The New Yorker, 29 Nov. 2022
• Starting with the outer edge of the wreath, use hot-glue to adhere three concentric rings of 16 corn husks each.
  — Charlyne Mattox, Country Living, 14 Sep. 2022
• With the remainder of the pecans, place one pecan in the center of the pie on top of the filling, then place the rest in concentric circles from the center to the edge.
  — Paulina Jayne Isaac, Glamour, 29 July 2021
• The right-most screen will show both of these metrics as concentric circles.
  — Ron Amadeo, Ars Technica, 28 Sep. 2018
• The stage floor is a map of wartime Europe, with the flying ranges of bombers plotted in concentric circles.
  — John Timpane, Philly.com, 9 May 2018
• The weight of that crater has buckled the surface in that region, forming a ring of concentric circles around the crater.
  — Jennifer Leman, Popular Mechanics, 7 Apr. 2020
• The wooden coffin is the largest of the three concentric coffins inside which King Tut’s mummy was found.
  — Los Angeles Times, 4 Aug. 2019
• The stone then heads for the house — the area with four concentric circles on the other side of the sheet that loosely resembles a dartboard.
  — Sean Gregory, Time, 12 Jan. 2018
• If blood trail plays out, search for more in concentric circles or a grid pattern.
  — John Goodspeed, San Antonio Express-News, 25 Jan. 2018
• At the same time, Wyss has sat near the center of concentric circles of influence.
  — Emily Birnbaum, Fortune, 25 Jan. 2024
• Then move in toward the center in concentric rings, overlapping each pass by half the width of the compactor's base plate.
  — Peter Martin, Popular Mechanics, 1 Aug. 2020
• The chairs were arranged in concentric circles, with an empty space in the center.
  — Clare Sestanovich, The New Yorker, 2 Dec. 2019
• Most importantly for our purposes, one of the cairns shows a large carving of overlapping concentric circles—a common visual representation of the sun being eclipsed and then revealed by the moon.
  — Popsci Staff, Popular Science, 27 Mar. 2024
• Jackie as a figure in history was a rock in the water, creating concentric circles and ripples of new possibility.
  — Houston Mitchell, Los Angeles Times, 15 Apr. 2024

Last Updated: 16 Sep 2024