Example Sentences

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Like many European auteurs before him, Donnersmarck, who was thirty-three when he won, found himself drawn centripetally toward Hollywood.

From The New Yorker • Jan. 14, 2019

It may be known from a true head by the flowers not expanding centripetally, that is, not from the circumference towards the centre.

From The Elements of Botany For Beginners and For Schools by Gray, Asa

"The foxglove blooms centripetally," is cold and colorless, however interesting it may be as technical fact, The fox-gloves drop from throat to top, A daily lesser bell quivers with emotional associations.

From Literature in the Elementary School by MacClintock, Porter Lander

For instance, one developed a chronic habit of running centripetally round a constantly diminishing circle, fainting on arriving at the geometrical centre.

From Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 156, May 21, 1919 by Various

Still entangled with my slumbers, I hesitated to respond to the friendly hands that were everywhere thrust centripetally toward me.

From Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 15, No. 85, January, 1875 by Various