How to Use epicenter in a Sentence

epicenter

noun

• More:An Alaskan army base is the epicenter of military suicides.
  — Tom Vanden Brook, USA TODAY, 15 Nov. 2024
• Ventura County was also the epicenter of the region’s two most devastating recent fires, both sparked by power lines.
  — Sean Greene, Los Angeles Times, 21 Nov. 2024
• The epicenter of the carnage is the Strait of Gibraltar.
  — Tomas Weber, Rolling Stone, 18 May 2024
• The Stork was, for a time, the epicenter of the New York social scene, the Studio 54 of its day.
  — Jason O'Bryan, Robb Report, 25 Feb. 2023
• Key streets are going to be blocked off at the epicenter of the draft.
  — Susan Tompor, Detroit Free Press, 14 Mar. 2024
• Erzin is about 70 miles or so from the quake's epicenter.
  — Kristina Jovanovski, NBC News, 15 Feb. 2023
• Next week, the Queen City could be the epicenter of the movie's production.
  — David Wysong, The Enquirer, 12 July 2024
• Over the past decade, the South has emerged as the epicenter of the nation’s H.I.V. epidemic.
  — Ava Sasani, New York Times, 24 Mar. 2023
• Colton got a shaking, at about a mile from the quake’s epicenter.
  — Rong-Gong Lin Ii, Los Angeles Times, 25 Jan. 2024
• The quake, whose epicenter was the Turkish city of Gaziantep, measured 7.8 on the Richter scale.
  — David Faris, The Week, 9 Feb. 2023
• The earthquake's epicenter was near Ighil, a town in the Al Haouz Province.
  — Andrea Vacchiano, Fox News, 9 Sep. 2023
• The Sacred Precinct, home of the Templo Mayor, was the epicenter of the city.
  — WIRED, 17 Sep. 2023
• Phoenix, at the epicenter, just logged its hottest month on record - and the hottest month ever observed in a U.S. city.
  — Matthew Cappucci, Anchorage Daily News, 1 Aug. 2023
• Even those of us that live far from the epicenter of these fires spent a lot of the summer breathing their smoke.
  — Chris Klimek, Smithsonian Magazine, 30 Nov. 2023
• And its epicenter is the patch of real estate on the west side of the highway, mere yards from the Nevada side.
  — Sacramento Bee, 30 Jan. 2024
• All these factors helped make Harlem the epicenter of the era, where Gladys Bentley rose to fame.
  — Dr. Cookie Woolner, Harper's BAZAAR, 28 Mar. 2023
• The epicenter of the protests is expected to be in Nairobi.
  — Larry Madowo, CNN, 24 June 2024
• In the last Cold War, southeast Asia, Asia was an epicenter of this shutdown.
  — CBS News, 10 Sep. 2023
• The quake struck at 2:34 a.m., its epicenter just offshore.
  — Los Angeles Times, 22 Dec. 2022
• In the '80s and into the '90s, Ibiza was the epicenter of rave culture and the dance-music explosion that followed.
  — Hadley Freeman, Travel + Leisure, 20 June 2023
• Fort Worth could be the epicenter of Hollywood in Texas.
  — Winston Cho, The Hollywood Reporter, 27 Mar. 2023
• While there are proving grounds all over the country, New York City is its epicenter.
  — Nia Decaille, New York Times, 11 Nov. 2023
• Khan Younis was the epicenter of heavy fighting, Israeli airstrikes and shelling a few months ago.
  — Anas Baba, NPR, 4 June 2024
• The team of dogs will land in Adana, a major southern city near the epicenter of the earthquake, according to the statement.
  — CNN, 8 Feb. 2023
• Who knew the epicenter of baseball’s powerhouses would be deep in the heart of Texas.
  — Bob Nightengale, USA TODAY, 2 Aug. 2023
• Clearly, Zillow expects the U.S. Southeast to be the epicenter of home price growth in 2023.
  — Lance Lambert, Fortune, 7 Mar. 2023
• West Lafayette could become an epicenter of this growth.
  — The Indianapolis Star, 12 Sep. 2022
• Umoja, who was born and raised in L.A., lived in Kwanzaa’s epicenter.
  — Malaika Jabali, Essence, 25 Dec. 2023
• And while battle rap has proving grounds all over the country, New York is its epicenter.
  — Ben Barzilai Christopher Lee, New York Times, 14 June 2023
• Arizona was an epicenter for false claims of election fraud in 2020.
  — Abc News, ABC News, 4 Nov. 2024

Last Updated: 14 Dec 2024