How to Use locus in a Sentence

locus

noun

• The area became a locus of resistance to the government.
• One locus, for example, determined how well the mice built nests.
  — Carl Zimmer, New York Times, 19 Apr. 2017
• In the east the north China plain served as the locus of the proto-Han civilization.
  — Razib Khan, Discover Magazine, 24 June 2013
• This locus is well known in part because it has been implicated in pigment variation in human and fish.
  — Razib Khan, Discover Magazine, 17 Oct. 2013
• The crime in question is more fixed endpoint than riddle, an inevitable locus where all of these intriguing stories will converge.
  — Richard Lawson, VanityFair.com, 16 Feb. 2017
• Over time without new variation all polymorphic sites will become monomorphic as one variant comes to dominate each locus.
  — Razib Khan, Discover Magazine, 17 Sep. 2013
• Perhaps more curious now there is a powerful gene flow parameter into the Burmese from the same locus.
  — Razib Khan, Discover Magazine, 29 Jan. 2013
• The Bering Sea has been a locus of climate change for decades.
  — Caroline Delbert, Popular Mechanics, 8 Nov. 2022
• The locus of concern is in the world’s ocean of corporate debt, worth $74trn.
  — The Economist, 12 Mar. 2020
• The company’s brand was sort of like the locus of power.
  — Matt Brennan, Los Angeles Times, 17 Apr. 2022
• The stakes were clear this weekend as the White House became the locus for a second outbreak of the virus in a month.
  — Zeke Miller and Alexandra Jaffe, chicagotribune.com, 26 Oct. 2020
• The locus shifted the next three years to Huntington Beach and Long Beach.
  — Joe Mozingo, oregonlive, 16 May 2021
• If Mormonism is weird, where is the locus of its weirdness?
  — Dan Piepenbring, Harper's Magazine, 14 Dec. 2023
• The stakes were clear this past weekend as the White House became the locus for a second outbreak of the virus in a month.
  — Arkansas Online, 26 Oct. 2020
• Kid Gloves The YouTube case presents a unique locus for those frustrations.
  — Wired, 4 Sep. 2019
• The bench had become the locus of a kind of unhurried urban idyll.
  — Anne Quito, Quartzy, 24 Sep. 2019
• The groundwork was laid years ago for the changes along the stretch of West Markham Street, a locus of city government offices.
  — Joseph Flaherty, Arkansas Online, 8 Aug. 2023
• Chicago was the locus of urban blues and the center of the burgeoning gospel scene.
  — David Remnick, The New Yorker, 27 June 2022
• Santa Clara County has been the locus of one of the largest nursing home outbreaks in the region.
  — Dominic Fracassa, SFChronicle.com, 1 May 2020
• Guards keep the curious away from an overgrown orchard that appears to be the locus of the search.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 27 June 2021
• One region that was more active in helpless mice was the locus coeruleus.
  — Andrew Reiner, Washington Post, 4 Feb. 2018
• The area also happens to be the locus of the Midwestern shift of voters from Obama to Trump.
  — New York Times, 7 Dec. 2019
• Chicago is not the market or the setting but the locus of production.
  — Chris Jones, Chicago Tribune, 9 Sep. 2022
• The West Coast also was the locus for the hottest digital theater company in the land.
  — Washington Post, 9 Dec. 2020
• In it, the singer performs at that locus of American life and TikTok dance videos: the gas station.
  — Halle Kiefer, Vulture, 5 Mar. 2021
• Dating back to the days of the late Roy Leonard, the show long has been a locus for arts and entertainment coverage.
  — Chicago Tribune Staff, chicagotribune.com, 11 Dec. 2020
• People just flocked to it because there had been no locus for the literary life.
  — John McMurtrie, San Francisco Chronicle, 21 Mar. 2018
• That inventiveness extends to the design of the well house where the kids discover the locus of the town's nightmare.
  — Ben Sachs, Chicago Reader, 14 Sep. 2017
• The family’s home, once the locus of so many festive occasions, has gone quiet.
  — Amy Qin, New York Times, 11 Feb. 2024
• But, in the second stanza, morning breaks, and Eliot’s grumpy Magus remembers the locus amoenus that was Bethlehem.
  — Casey Cep, The New Yorker, 23 Dec. 2023

Last Updated: 6 Sep 2024