How to Use nerve center in a Sentence

nerve center

noun

• Wall Street's undisputed status as the nerve center for the world of high finance.
• The tour ends in Garza’s office, just off the kitchen, which is the nerve center of the VWO.
  — George Dohrmann, SI.com, 17 Jan. 2018
• In the middle is the pulp, which is the soft tissue that holds the nerve center.
  — Jill U. Adams, Washington Post, 28 Apr. 2018
• Yet the nerve center of any Thai shopping mall is the food court.
  — Kris Yenbamroong, GQ, 10 Oct. 2017
• Part of the nerve center that helps the Dingell engine churn.
  — Nick Baumgardner, Detroit Free Press, 18 July 2019
• Alex Anzalone should be the nerve center of the defense this fall.
  — Dave Birkett, Detroit Free Press, 27 Apr. 2021
• The middle office is the nerve center of the enterprise.
  — Nishant Nair, Forbes, 5 Mar. 2021
• Both were expected to be the nerve center in making calls and checks pre-snap.
  — Chris Solari, Detroit Free Press, 16 Aug. 2023
• The vertical control stick, the nerve center of the craft, was gripped between his knees.
  — Christoper Spregg, Popular Mechanics, 19 Aug. 2020
• But most of them have some kind of centralized nerve center.
  — Rachel Feltman, Popular Science, 22 Nov. 2023
• Through a gate is the dirt parking lot, and to the right a low-slung prefab structure, the nerve center here, the gun store with the machine shop out back.
  — Michael Paterniti, GQ, 7 Mar. 2018
• The clubhouse, a gabled horseshoe structure known as the Lido, is one of the Gezira's nerve centers.
  — Ashraf Khalil, Town & Country, 21 Dec. 2012
• Over the years, the heart has gone from being the body’s nerve center, to the symbolic home of the soul, and to a biomechanical marvel.
  — Kate Golembiewski, Discover Magazine, 6 Feb. 2021
• Facebook held fast and kept its news feed, which remains the platform's nerve center.
  — Tracey Lien, latimes.com, 23 Mar. 2018
• The nerve center of the war in Yemen is the combat operations room in the basement of a Riyadh military base.
  — Dion Nissenbaum, WSJ, 18 Mar. 2018
• Smith has potential, as a middle linebacker, to emerge as the nerve center of a defense for a decade.
  — Albert Breer, SI.com, 21 Mar. 2018
• Borland is the nerve center of the defense, comfortable running the show.
  — Doug Lesmerises, cleveland.com, 27 Aug. 2019
• Tokyo has been the nerve center of Japan’s movie industry for more than a century.
  — Mark Schilling, Variety, 11 Feb. 2022
• The next layer is dentin, which is less dense than enamel and encases the pulp, the soft tissue that holds a tooth’s nerve center.
  — Washington Post, 24 Sep. 2020
• The three Miller sons grew up in the nerve center of Nachume’s life and work, on the 11th floor of a 12-story building in the Flatiron district; Nachume’s studio was just nine flights down.
  — Rachel Sherman, New York Times, 16 June 2023
• If Hikvision supplied eyes on the streets of Hangzhou, Alibaba supplied the city’s nerve center.
  — Josh Chin, WSJ, 2 Sep. 2022
• As the fire drew closer, the century-old Bentley Feed Store became a nerve center.
  — Jeffrey E. Stern, The Atlantic, 30 Aug. 2021
• In the nerve center of the Trump resistance, some volunteers staff 24-hour hot lines in case immigration agents strike in the middle of the night.
  — Maria Sacchetti, BostonGlobe.com, 11 Mar. 2018
• The command and control center—Seawolf's nerve center—has the feel of, and about as much headroom as, a basement recreation room.
  — Jim Wilson, Popular Mechanics, 1 Dec. 2020
• At a time when Europe clearly represents the sport’s nerve center, holding the event in Asia makes little sense.
  — Jon Wertheim, SI.com, 11 Apr. 2018
• Weddle overcoming the ruptured tendon spared the Rams from having to shore up their on-field nerve center.
  — Tom Krasovic, San Diego Union-Tribune, 14 Feb. 2022
• Vaness Street can be the off-campus party nerve center hours before kickoff.
  — Tom Noie, The Indianapolis Star, 13 Sep. 2020
• The company is perhaps best known for its Fit Finder quiz, a data nerve center.
  — Kate Dwyer, Fortune, 19 July 2019
• Your ability to read the words on this webpage relies on your retina, which is essentially the nerve center of the eye.
  — Ben Panko, Smithsonian, 11 Jan. 2017
• The Guadalupe Yard operates as the nerve center of the light rail network and is now a crime scene under sheriff’s department control.
  — NBC News, 2 June 2021

Last Updated: 28 May 2024