centrifugal
Example Sentences
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“The cable is holding you up and simulating centrifugal force on the corner,” Corby said.
From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 11, 2026
These are centrifugal forces shaping the uneasy calm in the world economy.
From BBC • Oct. 19, 2025
The individual tiles and reinforcement bars create a striking impression of an enthralling and vertiginous centrifugal motion.
From Los Angeles Times • May 8, 2025
As an earthbound motorcyclist speeds around the cylinder, their inertia pushes them into the wall, creating an outward centrifugal force.
From Science Magazine • Apr. 30, 2024
There were fifty or sixty huge structures still standing, streets were dusty but paved, and you could see one or two old centrifugal fountains still pulsing wetly in the plazas.
From "The Martian Chronicles" by Ray Bradbury
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
