How to Use centrifugal force in a Sentence

centrifugal force

noun

• The design lets the tires hurl water away via centrifugal force.
  — Andrew Moseman, Popular Mechanics, 3 Mar. 2016
• The outward centrifugal force should therefore get the upper hand and widen the eye.
  — Sam Kean, The Atlantic, 5 Sep. 2017
• Jones scored seven of his points in overtime and was the centrifugal force for a team that lost three starters along the way.
  — Shannon Russell, The Courier-Journal, 28 Feb. 2021
• And how the systems involved would hold up under high-speed centrifugal forces.
  — Loz Blain september 23, New Atlas, 23 Sep. 2025
• The centrifugal force threw his foot off the clutch, causing the car to lurch forward and trigger the red light.
  — Michael Knight, azcentral, 19 Feb. 2020
• The centrifugal force alone would reduce him to the size of a soggy jelly bean inside that suit.
  — Phil Plait, Discover Magazine, 17 Oct. 2012
• This machine uses centrifugal force that spins at varying speeds to make each type of coffee unique.
  — Jamie Kim, Good Housekeeping, 28 Feb. 2023
• Here the centrifugal force points away from the axis of rotation, not away from the center of the cloud.
  — Rhett Allain, WIRED, 2 Feb. 2024
• Meanwhile, the centrifugal force of grief pulled the family apart.
  — Michael Paterniti, GQ, 7 Mar. 2018
• Rotating cones use centrifugal force to transform the wine into a thin film.
  — Laura Reiley, Washington Post, 24 Mar. 2023
• Meanwhile, centrifugal force beckons the balls to the dip in the concave disc’s center.
  — Emily Watlington, ARTnews.com, 20 Dec. 2024
• Or maybe, to put it more accurately, the star playing this centrifugal force.
  — David Fear, Rolling Stone, 9 Dec. 2022
• Manage the dough from the top, and allow gravity and a little centrifugal force to do the work.
  — Carlo Mirarchi, Robb Report, 30 Nov. 2021
• When the engine spins fast enough, centrifugal force overwhelms the springs and pushes them into the drum, pulling it and the chain along.
  — Kevin Dupzyk, Popular Mechanics, 24 June 2015
• Your drawers and cabinets should all have latches, but even latches are known to bust when hit with centrifugal force.
  — Josh Max, Forbes, 3 May 2023
• Particles near the poles had less centrifugal force, so they got pulled down toward the middle, forming a big flat disk.
  — Rhett Allain, WIRED, 2 Feb. 2024
• The mysterious event becomes the centrifugal force of the book.
  — Margaret Wappler, Los Angeles Times, 14 Mar. 2022
• For instance, with a shearing force, the area of the raft was much smaller than when the ants encountered just centrifugal force.
  — Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica, 5 Mar. 2022
• Another trend is the rise of centrifugal forces in the United States.
  — William C. Wohlforth, Foreign Affairs, 22 June 2021
• Josh Tupou, the centrifugal force driving the back of Tua’s head into the turf like a hammer.
  — The Indianapolis Star, 30 Sep. 2022
• The driver’s considerable skills and centrifugal force are keeping you on the track.
  — Bill Pennington, New York Times, 24 Jan. 2018
• This results in a centrifugal force, which pushes thousands of tiny droplets and aerosol particles into the air.
  — Claire Gillespie, Health.com, 16 June 2020
• The notion he was forced out by Wright has been refuted with a study of the centrifugal force of those two bodies in action.
  — Star Tribune, 25 June 2021
• Drag near the ground slows the rotation, reducing the centrifugal force pushing the air outward.
  — Jason M. Forthofer, Scientific American, 20 Nov. 2019
• Simply place each can on a table and rotate it along its axis, and the centrifugal force will make the pernicious bubbles go away.
  — Alan Sepinwall, Rolling Stone, 24 May 2022
• Abiy’s fundamental challenge is that the centrifugal forces in Ethiopia have grown stronger than the centripetal ones.
  — Nic Cheeseman, Foreign Affairs, 5 Nov. 2021
• To be stable, the torque from the gravitational force and the centrifugal force combined must be zero.
  — Rhett Allain, WIRED, 5 July 2024
• As the tire's speed builds up centrifugal force stretches the sidewall out, making the tire grow in diameter and reduce in width.
  — Kyle Hill, Discover Magazine, 11 Aug. 2013
• Indeed, tax reform is the holy grail of the GOP, and its centrifugal forces can be felt in both houses.
  — Francine Kiefer, The Christian Science Monitor, 25 Oct. 2017
• After that, the centrifugal force will become even stronger as the team’s young players ride the salary escalator upward.
  — Steven Goldman, Slate Magazine, 31 Mar. 2017