Example Sentences

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Entering Wednesday, all the discussion around the Dodgers had centered on the bullpen.

From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 18, 2025

The pope’s comments came at the tail end of his seven-hour trip to Budapest, where much of the attention had centered on how Francis would address a leader who is his political opposite.

From Washington Post • Sep. 12, 2021

The disagreement had centered on the compensation amount the Suez Canal Authority is claiming for the salvage of the vessel.

From Seattle Times • Jul. 4, 2021

Previous talks had centered on the smaller goal of reduced violence: a U.S. drawdown of troops in Afghanistan in exchange for a Taliban pledge not to support terrorist attacks on the United States.

From The New Yorker • Dec. 2, 2019

That this boy, around whose form every desire of life had centered, should be in peril was a thought that set his heart to beating with new energy.

From The Sins of the Father A Romance of the South by Dixon, Thomas