storm centre
Britishnoun
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the centre of a cyclonic storm, etc, where pressure is lowest
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the centre of any disturbance or trouble
Example Sentences
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Were proper efforts made to avoid the storm centre?
From Time Magazine Archive
In 1939 he was the storm centre of the London whaling conference at which, it was rumored, not whales but a $5,000,000,000 appeasement loan was the chief topic of conversation.
From Time Magazine Archive
In his first years at Columbia, Boas was something of a storm centre.
From Time Magazine Archive
"Whatever it was," says she, "I became a sort of storm centre wherever I went."
From Time Magazine Archive
Kansas had been a storm centre since the day it became a Territory, and the overwhelming theme was negro slavery.
From The Price of the Prairie A Story of Kansas by McCarter, Margaret Hill
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