How to Use centered in a Sentence

centered

adjective
  • She struggled with depression for years, but she's more centered now and able to live a full life.
  • The best thing to do is to remain centered and power through.
    Kyle Thomas, PEOPLE, 14 June 2026
  • Still, make an effort to withdraw your ego from any push for change — stay centered on results.
    Tarot.com, Baltimore Sun, 8 Feb. 2024
  • Therapy will provide a place to talk out your feelings, make plans and stay centered.
    Meghan Leahy, Washington Post, 6 Mar. 2024
  • Keep your torso straight and your knee centered and stable throughout the movement.
    Hayden Carpenter, Outside Online, 21 May 2020
  • Venus, your planetary ruler, is out of sync with feisty Mars on the 5th, so just stay centered.
    Katharine Merlin, Town & Country, 1 Feb. 2023
  • Stay centered and non-reactive even if someone pushes your buttons.
    Tribune Content Agency, oregonlive, 23 Sep. 2020
  • Fails, who’s only in his second movie role here, holds the camera with a calm and centered intensity.
    Richard Brody, The New Yorker, 5 June 2019
  • To feel more centered, take a meditative spin around the labyrinth, behind the sculpture garden.
    Washington Post, 6 Nov. 2020
  • The first two episodes, the highlight of the five made available for review, feel more like a standalone film, so centered and complete is their plot.
    Kelly Lawler, USA TODAY, 8 Aug. 2020
  • This, in turn, builds a more resilient and centered organization.
    John Hall, Forbes, 6 June 2021
  • The new Show 8 has edge-to-edge glass, a centered camera, and a slightly different shape to its large speaker prism in the back.
    WIRED, 20 Sep. 2023
  • But the ability to stay centered when chaos erupts is the competitive advantage nobody talks about.
    Jodie Cook, Forbes.com, 29 May 2025
  • The majority of the cases and deaths remain centered in China.
    CBS News, 18 Feb. 2020
  • The biggest moves of the week so far remain centered around ebbing energy prices and inflation outlooks in general.
    Marc Jones, The Christian Science Monitor, 8 June 2017
  • Being independent is the best course on the 23rd, and new prospects are looking rosy on the 28th, so stay centered.
    Katharine Merlin, Town & Country, 16 July 2023
  • If someone talks over you, stay generous yet firm and restate your idea calmly, because centered delivery often wins the room.
    Tarot.com, Baltimore Sun, 8 Jan. 2026
  • Adjusting the skewers helps to compensate for any difference in size and allows Buddy to stay centered.
    Rachelle Doorley, Parents, 16 Aug. 2023
  • The nightlife is plentiful and centered right outside Petco Park in the Gaslamp Quarter.
    Jon Tayler, SI.com, 18 Feb. 2018
  • This time around, however, the scene is less centered on angry young White men and more on women and people of color, like the members of Pinkshift.
    Washington Post, 4 May 2022
  • By the 2000s, though, Plimpton’s career had mostly become centered in New York.
    Chris Jones, chicagotribune.com, 15 July 2019
  • Pearl loves pairing a round table with a single, centered fixture, while a rectangular table lends itself to different shapes and sculptural fixtures.
    Ryan Conner, Dallas Morning News, 18 Feb. 2026
  • And having phase-detect AF across the entire viewfinder is a huge help, eliminating any pressure to keep your subject somewhat centered.
    Chris Welch, The Verge, 24 Oct. 2018
  • The glasses feature a centered camera, louder speakers with deeper bass and new shooting modes such as 60-frames-per-second video, slow-motion and time-lapse capture.
    Bloomberg, Mercury News, 18 Sep. 2025
  • With Mars out of harmony with your birth sign, make an effort to stay centered and don’t let yourself be thrown off by others’ insensitivity on the 14th.
    Lauren Hubbard, Town & Country, 1 Apr. 2023
  • The upgrade places Super Cruise in the same sphere as Tesla's Autopilot, which can also change lanes with a tap of the signal, stay centered, brake and accelerate on its own.
    Nathan Bomey, USA TODAY, 28 Jan. 2020
  • The new Moon of the 28th is heading towards the top of your solar chart promoting your visibility and aspects on the 31st continue to challenge you to stay centered.
    Katharine Merlin, Town & Country, 16 July 2022
  • Designed for high-intensity sports and active usage, the glasses feature a centered 12-megapixel camera with a 122-degree wide-angle lens and hyperlapse and slow motion recordings.
    Fairchild Studio, Footwear News, 18 Sep. 2025
  • While Harris Reed had more exaggerated bottom lashes and more clustered to the outer wing, lashes at Dreaming Eli were more centered and top-heavy, leaving the bottom lashes natural.
    Essence, 23 Sep. 2025
  • As for any crossover or competition between Swedish Hill — which will soon have four Austin locations — that concept is more centered on laminated dough and its patisserie program, along with cafe-style offerings like sandwiches, rotisserie chicken and prepared salads.
    Matthew Odam, Austin American Statesman, 25 Aug. 2025

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