Example Sentences

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Opponents of the plan were centering their fire on principle and precedent.

From Time Magazine Archive

Instead, they were centering upon the contents of a fat letter from his sister Priscilla, which his father had just read.

From Virginia of Elk Creek Valley by Chase, Mary Ellen

It is easy to be wise after the event, but my thoughts and suspicions were centering more and more around the innkeeper when Penreath was arrested.

From The Shrieking Pit by Rees, Arthur J. (Arthur John)

And these were centering their activities on an object as fearful as anything that ever haunted the mind of a madman.

From The Raid on the Termites by Ernst, Paul

What original cause had started the stampede the fugitives could not guess, but now the fear and anger of the animals were centering upon them.

From Voodoo Planet by Norton, Andre