How to Use central in a Sentence

central

1 of 2 adjective

• The house has four rooms and a central chimney.
• The evidence was central to the defense's case.
• The country's schools are financed by both local and central governments.
• City planners are looking for a central location for the new hospital.
• The central authority of the company's board is being challenged.
• And so the question of point of view was both central and permanent.
  — Ben Croll, Variety, 18 Feb. 2024
• The visits promise to be central to the EU probe, announced in September and set to run for 13 months.
  — Steve Mollman, Fortune, 13 Jan. 2024
• Here's a recap of what central bankers have said ahead of the Fed's Dec. 12-13 policy meeting.
  — Joe Wallace, WSJ, 2 Dec. 2023
• The mouse was central to the computer’s populist future, which wasn’t yet assured at the time.
  — Ian Bogost, The Atlantic, 24 Jan. 2024
• The property is equipped with a heating system and central A/C.
  — Bay Area Home Report, The Mercury News, 7 Feb. 2024
• Had the group gone up a staircase on the periphery of the building and not the central one, Trieschmann likely would have seen only a thick cloud of smoke.
  — Megan Greenwell, WIRED, 27 June 2023
• The lower deck offers more glitzy amenities still, with the beach club offering a panoramic Jacuzzi, a central lounge, and a gym.
  — Rachel Cormack, Robb Report, 7 Feb. 2024
• Here’s the central challenge of making a better vaccine.
  — Maryn McKenna, WIRED, 10 Nov. 2023
• It’s overlooked by the upper deck balcony, which has views onto a central pool and lounging sunpads that span the full width of the yacht’s 48-foot beam.
  — Julia Zaltzman, Robb Report, 27 Oct. 2023
• Among the most central facts was that the Crumbleys bought their son the handgun as a Christmas present and later took him to target practice.
  — Thaddeus Hoffmeister, The Conversation, 6 Feb. 2024
• The hurricane center said an area of low pressure could form in the central or western Gulf by the beginning of next week.
  — Leigh Morgan, al, 16 Aug. 2023
• Growing up in central Texas, both felt pressure to play high school football even though baseball was their sport.
  — Peter Abraham, BostonGlobe.com, 9 Sep. 2023
• The second cold front will be much more potent and usher in the season’s first push of truly autumn air for the central and eastern US.
  — Mary Gilbert, CNN, 4 Oct. 2023
• Northern Arkansas could see up to 3 inches, while central and eastern parts of the state are forecast to see around an inch of rain.
  — Remington Miller, Arkansas Online, 4 Oct. 2023
• The central question for us was did Philby outwit Elliott?
  — Hugh Hart, Los Angeles Times, 16 June 2023
• In central Alabama, the greatest risk Wednesday will be from damaging winds up to 60 mph and hail of up to 2 inches.
  — Leada Gore | [e-mail], al, 14 June 2023
• The central part of the state, including Birmingham, will see storms start around 2 p.m. before leaving around 5 p.m.
  — Leada Gore | [e-mail], al, 25 June 2023
• Staged in the second-floor gallery, the enigmatic show overlooks the museum’s central courtyard, light flooding the ringed room.
  — Angelica Aboulhosn, Smithsonian Magazine, 8 Sep. 2023
• The acorns produced by the oaks are an important food source for tribes throughout central and southern Arizona.
  — The Arizona Republic, 29 Feb. 2024
• Connecticut State Police That timeline became central to the State's case — not only for what was in it, but for what wasn't.
  — Erin Moriarty, CBS News, 6 Apr. 2024
• So potent is fame that its effects can linger even in the physical absence of its central subject.
  — Angie Han, The Hollywood Reporter, 28 Dec. 2023
• The central zone of the apartment is occupied with each of the couple's preoccupations.
  — Kimberley Mok, Treehugger, 6 June 2023
• Read full article Search had been a central figure in the documentary scene in Britain and beyond for years.
  — Neil Genzlinger, BostonGlobe.com, 4 Aug. 2023
• Apartment in Zhengzhou, in China’s central Henan province.
  — WSJ, 16 Aug. 2023
• Debate over whether the new tax should fund freeway expansion projects has been central throughout the development of the draft plan.
  — Adrian Rodriguez, The Mercury News, 25 Jan. 2024

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central

2 of 2 noun

• Our family room becomes kid central on weekends.
• Most models put the strong winds in the central to southern part of the Willamette Valley.
  — oregonlive, 27 May 2022
• There’s still a game to be played Wednesday at noon central.
  — Michael Casagrande | [e-mail], al, 30 Dec. 2019
• The Pact was the fruit of his own, his central—his necessary—passion.
  — Cynthia Ozick, The New Yorker, 14 June 2021
• Far from a sleepy town, Mykonos is Greece’s party central.
  — Raisa Bruner, Time, 16 July 2019
• But the comedy world, that was just straight-boy central.
  — Brent Lang, Variety, 1 Sep. 2022
• The 7th District spans parts of north-central and northwest Hartford.
  — Rebecca Lurye, courant.com, 26 Apr. 2017
• Over at Hell and High Water central, this news has not been received well.
  — Keith Kloor, Discover Magazine, 26 Jan. 2011
• The enchanting city of Munich is grand central for the country's largest state.
  — Forrest Brown, CNN, 21 Aug. 2022
• And Madras, a tiny town in Oregon’s high desert region, will be solar eclipse central.
  — Jackie Burrell, The Mercury News, 28 Apr. 2017
• Montrose and North Avenue is party central so there will be beer cans.
  — Tony Briscoe, chicagotribune.com, 4 Sep. 2019
• Introducing her film for the first time, Caro invoked the famed warrior central to the story.
  — Bryan Alexander, USA TODAY, 10 Mar. 2020
• By purchasing the loans, the central would create an incentive for the banks to engage in more lending.
  — CBS News, 6 Apr. 2020
• The German legend has been key to Chicago's central midfield since joining the club last season.
  — Jamie Goldberg, OregonLive.com, 30 Mar. 2018
• The Jersey Shore city, in the central to southern part of the state, is also home to multiple massive yeshivas that attract young men from around the world.
  — Philissa Cramer, sun-sentinel.com, 18 Aug. 2021
• Areas north of the front — which is expected to be north-central and north Alabama — will be more stable.
  — Leigh Morgan, al, 19 Apr. 2020
• Temperatures by Friday morning will fall into the 30s in north, central and parts of south Alabama and the 40s near the coast.
  — Leigh Morgan, al, 30 Oct. 2019
• The quake hit central Sulawesi and a tsunami warning was issued.
  — Fox News, 28 Sep. 2018
• The album was a proof of concept, an exploration of the kind of empowerment central to Tate’s music.
  — Jeff Ihaza, Rolling Stone, 2 Mar. 2021
• The iPhone continues to be a major revenue driver and central to its ecosystem of products.
  — Samantha Murphy Kelly, CNN, 13 Sep. 2021
• When asked why Chicago was the most logical city for a third location, Burt cited the artistic culture central to the city.
  — Audrey Gorden, RedEye Chicago, 3 July 2017
• This statement-cum-question homed in on the two central, and in some senses competing, charges that are being levied at the prime minister.
  — Tom McTague, The Atlantic, 6 Oct. 2020
• The forecast calls for 2 to 5 inches of snow and ice accumulation of one-tenth to three-tenths of an inch across the central to southwestern areas of the southern state.
  — Jamie L. Lareau, Detroit Free Press, 16 Feb. 2021
• The heatwave has also reached central and northern India.
  — Sophia Saifi and Jessie Yeung, CNN, 22 May 2018
• Biden made Trump’s management of the pandemic central to his campaign.
  — W. James Antle Iii, Washington Examiner, 29 Dec. 2020
• But the legend of Pickett’s brave Virginians marching heroically to their doom has become more entrenched with time—one central to the Lost Cause view of the war.
  — John Reeves, WSJ, 23 Apr. 2021
• At night, the resort's Casino Arizona is gambling central.
  — Dawn Gilbertson, azcentral, 15 May 2018
• There is something of a paradox here, one central to the archive’s project: decay is both a problem to be managed and a necessary feature.
  — Sophie Haigney, The New Yorker, 4 Oct. 2021
• The world outside Carnival central seems to tilt toward the city, and everyone on the fringe pours into every nook and cranny to join the season's simmer.
  — The Masked Observer, AL.com, 12 Feb. 2018
• Four crucifixions side by side on one wall offer a stunning array of varied takes on a single theme central to the faith.
  — Christopher Knight, latimes.com, 13 Oct. 2017

Last Updated: 3 May 2024