centripetal

Example Sentences

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You can hear him mining the soil for information, creating melodies with a centripetal pull, building rhythms that leave a listener no option but to pick up on the momentum.

From New York Times

Weed’s “collection architecture,” rife with hollows, depressions and shallow scoop bunkers that gather shots, celebrates the centripetal force of gravity.

From Golf Digest

For that matter, Zahler’s taut, restrained style is a part of that exertion of force—it’s an artistic force that, with its centripetal pressure, prevents the centrifugal force of emotionalism, sentimentality, Pollyanna-ish liberalism from prevailing.

From The New Yorker

Mostly, we have the irresistible pull to the center: centripetal journalism.

From Washington Post

This is a location where the centripetal force of the rotating Earth-Moon system balances out the gravitational pull of the two bodies.

From Scientific American