How to Use centrist in a Sentence

centrist

noun

• The candidate hopes to appeal to centrists nationwide.
• Joe Manchin, of course, is flirting with a run, a run as a centrist backed by No Labels.
  — Nbc Universal, NBC News, 6 Aug. 2023
• Progressives clash with centrists over the scope and speed of the changes needed to address the country’s ills.
  — Michael Bobelian, Washington Post, 29 June 2023
• Will the idealists who backed left-wing populism grit their teeth and vote for a centrist (Macron)?
  — Kate Aronoff, The New Republic, 15 Apr. 2022
• The 44-year-old centrist becomes the first incumbent to win a second term since Jacques Chirac two decades ago.
  — Fortune, 24 Apr. 2022
• Macron, a pro-European centrist, emerged ahead from the April 10 first round and is leading in opinion polls.
  — Sylvie Corbet, ajc, 20 Apr. 2022
• Casten is more of a centrist while Newman is more of a liberal.
  — Amber Phillips, Washington Post, 28 June 2022
• Like Dowd, Collier is a 60-year-old white man who identifies as a centrist.
  — Gilbert Garcia, San Antonio Express-News, 30 Sep. 2021
• At least in the short term, Lapid, a centrist, will be Israel's point man on repairs to the tattered relationship with Biden and the Democrats.
  — Laurie Kellman, USA TODAY, 28 June 2021
• At least in the short term, Lapid, a centrist, will be Israel’s point man on repairs to the tattered relationship with Biden and the Democrats.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 27 June 2021
• Mayorkas had honed a public image that was well suited for the moment—a centrist with a heart.
  — Jonathan Blitzer, The New Yorker, 17 Feb. 2024
• More than 90% of Israelis who identify as left-wing, two-thirds of centrists and about half of those on the right said the government lacks a plan.
  — Eric Sylvers, WSJ, 24 Nov. 2023
• Samuels ran as a centrist who challenged her on policing issues.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 10 Aug. 2022
• The film cuts to the right-centrist soon-to-be president Valéry Giscard d’Estaing careening clownishly on skis, in a race bib.
  — Rachel Kushner, Harper’s Magazine , 25 May 2022
• Gareth Southgate, the English manager, is a centrist, down to his zip-neck polo shirts.
  — Sam Knight, The New Yorker, 3 Dec. 2022
• Macron, a centrist, is asking France's 48 million voters for a second five-year term.
  — Fox News, 10 Apr. 2022
• The ambitious centrist, on the other hand, has the reverse emphasis.
  — Dave Anderson, Star Tribune, 29 June 2021
• Together, these changes make Banks something of a centrist in this debate.
  — Laura Meckler, Washington Post, 17 Nov. 2022
• Aficionados have very strong opinions in both directions, and, of course, there are centrists who go for meat and beans combined.
  — Julie Giuffrida, Los Angeles Times, 22 Oct. 2023
• Wu is seen as the progressive candidate in the mayoral election, while Essaibi George is viewed more as a centrist.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 18 Sep. 2021
• Macron, a political centrist, for months looked like a shoo-in to become France’s first president in 20 years to win a second term.
  — NBC News, 10 Apr. 2022
• His centrist Yesh Atid party came second in the election behind Netanyahu’s Likud.
  — Raf Sanchez, NBC News, 3 Nov. 2022
• In 1973, there were two strong political parties in Minnesota, both centrist and in touch with the state’s voters.
  — Lance Morrow, WSJ, 21 Jan. 2022
• No Labels claims its goal is to create a space for centrists who are fed up with partisan politics and want solutions that appeal to both the right and the left.
  — Tori Otten, The New Republic, 3 July 2023
• Moore is viewed as more of a centrist: 43 percent of voters consider Moore as liberal, 25 percent middle-of-the-road.
  — Erin Cox, Washington Post, 1 Oct. 2022
• Essaibi George, 47, is widely seen as a centrist, and has painted herself as more pragmatic than Wu.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 2 Nov. 2021
• The only woman running is the current leader of Chile’s Senate, centrist Yasna Provoste, 51.
  — Washington Post, 20 Nov. 2021
• In the first round of voting in the presidential election this past Sunday, the incumbent centrist Emmanuel Macron finished first with 27.8 percent of the vote.
  — Damon Linker, The Week, 12 Apr. 2022
• Any business leader who cares about the future of capitalism these days should be a raging centrist.
  — Alan Murray, Fortune, 1 Sep. 2023
• Being perceived by voters as a party that gets things done helps win elections – and centrists are often the ones whose votes are up for grabs, one way or another.
  — Matt Harris, The Conversation, 1 June 2023

Last Updated: 3 May 2024