How to Use fulcrum in a Sentence

fulcrum

noun

• Your core is the fulcrum and your arms and legs are the levers.
  — Jenny McCoy, SELF, 30 Oct. 2018
• The point in the center (the fulcrum) is the balance point.
  — Graydon McKee, Forbes, 21 May 2021
• This type uses the lever and fulcrum method (and strength) to pop the cork.
  — Maya Polton, Better Homes & Gardens, 10 Jan. 2023
• This type uses the lever and fulcrum method (and strength) to pop the cork.
  — Maya Polton, Better Homes & Gardens, 8 Feb. 2024
• The duo served as the fulcrum of a historic season on the Plains.
  — Tom Green | [e-mail], al, 6 Apr. 2022
• The effect is to make the quake the fulcrum on which their lives, and the life of the city itself, turned.
  — David James, Anchorage Daily News, 7 June 2020
• The fulcrum of this Series, and of Springer's play, was Game 2.
  — Thomas Boswell, Alaska Dispatch News, 2 Nov. 2017
• The trap is just a pipe resting on a cheap pen that acts as the fulcrum of a see-saw.
  — Andrew Moseman, Popular Mechanics, 7 Apr. 2017
• But Roberts is no longer the fulcrum of the court, and that means everything.
  — Matt Ford, The New Republic, 28 July 2021
• In the example of the bicep curl, the forearm is the lever, with the hand as the load and the elbow as the fulcrum.
  — Discover Magazine, 4 Aug. 2011
• Putting him as the fulcrum of the offense could be courting chaos.
  — Ira Winderman, sun-sentinel.com, 4 Sep. 2019
• What if the fulcrum were lifted and set back down just a few degrees to the left?
  — Jessica Ferri, Los Angeles Times, 20 Mar. 2023
• Both were confused as to why the play lives as a fulcrum of drama.
  — Chris Bumbaca, USA TODAY, 19 Jan. 2022
• At all times, even off-screen, Tashi remains the fulcrum.
  — Peter Debruge, Variety, 12 Apr. 2024
• Then, take the second bobby pin and bend it at the fulcrum to make one long, straight piece.
  — Kevin Dupzyk, Popular Mechanics, 28 Nov. 2018
• Grip the bottle's neck with your other hand to act as a fulcrum.
  — Wired Staff, WIRED, 24 Mar. 2008
• Huawei is a fulcrum in Trump's wider trade war with China.
  — Jill Disis and Brian Fung, CNN, 19 Aug. 2019
• The show was originally with CBS, and Bryan was the fulcrum for me.
  — Kathryn Shattuck, New York Times, 9 Mar. 2018
• And on offense, it has been ingrained to act as a fulcrum.
  — Ira Winderman, sun-sentinel.com, 19 Sep. 2021
• Kelce, the fulcrum of Philly’s fantastic front five, seems to think so.
  — Andy Benoit, SI.com, 24 Jan. 2018
• In the grand scheme, White’s trade to Boston can be seen as a fulcrum point in the Spurs’ rebuilding project.
  — Jeff McDonald, San Antonio Express-News, 3 Mar. 2022
• Branch played the slot corner role in Tuscaloosa as the fulcrum of Nick Saban’s defense.
  — Mark Heim | [e-mail], al, 28 Apr. 2023
• The Aces point guard Chelsea Gray, with her audacious passing, was the fulcrum of it all.
  — Louisa Thomas, The New Yorker, 15 Oct. 2023
• But Samuels was the fulcrum of Mallard Creek’s offense.
  — C Jackson Cowart, charlotteobserver, 13 July 2017
• This season, that group went from being a pleasant surprise to the fulcrum of the team.
  — Chris Bieri, Anchorage Daily News, 29 May 2023
• The area is at the fulcrum of where allies from the U.S., U.K. and around the world provide artillery and weapons to the defenders over the border.
  — Simon Perry, Peoplemag, 22 Mar. 2023
• But one area where the Trump camp can move the fulcrum is in the amorphous category of fear.
  — Clifton Leaf, Fortune, 6 Sep. 2020
• Paul’s health now clearly stands as the fulcrum for this series.
  — Ben Golliver, SI.com, 25 May 2018
• Best of all, the cruel and needless murder of Jethro, rather than a throwaway bit of shading for Susie, turns out to be the fulcrum on which the whole thing pivots.
  — Sean T. Collins, Vulture, 7 Mar. 2024
• LaBelle is the film's fulcrum, portraying Michaels as a man bursting with self-confidence but who finds himself in way over his head.
  — Ew Staff, EW.com, 6 Sep. 2024

Last Updated: 4 Dec 2024