How to Use centrist in a Sentence

centrist

noun

• The candidate hopes to appeal to centrists nationwide.
• Trump is not a centrist in the sense of one who unites the parties.
  — Kyle Sammin, Washington Examiner, 12 Nov. 2020
• Phillips sees Patrick as the centrist who can win back the White House.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 18 Nov. 2019
• Pale centrists are trying to claim him as one of their own.
  — Charles P. Pierce, Esquire, 13 Dec. 2017
• 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
• But this is about those who do not back him, many of whom are centrists and moderates.
  — Peggy Noonan, WSJ, 8 Mar. 2018
• And in two years, centrist Yair Lapid, will take the position as part of an agreement.
  — Taylor Wilson, USA TODAY, 15 June 2021
• 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
• McCaskill served two terms in the Senate and is now, in her last week, one of its few ardent centrists.
  — Mattie Kahn, Glamour, 21 Dec. 2018
• Hate to wake you up The Democrats have always been split, to a greater or lesser extent, between the more left-wing and the more centrist.
  — The Economist, 6 Feb. 2020
• In two years, he'll be replaced by Yair Lapid, leader of centrist Yesh Atid.
  — Fox News, 22 June 2021
• Delaney was one of several centrists on the stage who took on Sens.
  — Anna North, Vox, 31 July 2019
• Can a designer be a centrist in this era of taking sides?
  — Robin Givhan, Washington Post, 9 Sep. 2019
• Susan Collins of Maine and Lisa Murkowski, both centrists, voted against the bill.
  — Eliza Collins, USA TODAY, 29 Jan. 2018
• The 44-year-old centrist becomes the first incumbent to win a second term since Jacques Chirac two decades ago.
  — Fortune, 24 Apr. 2022
• And that was part of the problem for centrist-leaning members in this year's elections.
  — Kerry Picket, Washington Examiner, 4 Dec. 2020
• Other centrists on the right and the left would also need to back a Bertrand candidacy.
  — Alicia Adamczyk, Fortune Europe, 9 July 2024
• Someone tell that man to stop trying to cruise centrists and go fill out a form to run for Senate in Colorado.
  — Michael Arceneaux, Essence, 28 June 2019
• And there is a race within the race -- between the party’s progressive wing and its centrists.
  — oregonlive.com, 30 July 2019
• 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
• All the same, Gonez has tried to position herself as a centrist who can work with both factions.
  — Howard Blume Staff Writer, Los Angeles Times, 15 Dec. 2020
• Like Dowd, Collier is a 60-year-old white man who identifies as a centrist.
  — Gilbert Garcia, San Antonio Express-News, 30 Sep. 2021
• Even if the Democrats were able to take control of the House after the midterm election centrist members of the party would be unlikely to back the move.
  — William Cummings, USA TODAY, 12 July 2018
• The spirit of the movement has even caught the fancy of Republicans, as well as centrists.
  — Franklin Foer, The Atlantic, 9 Apr. 2018
• 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
• 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
• The pushback from centrists is a change of pace, as hard-line conservatives and budget hawks in the House Freedom Caucus are typically the thorns in Johnson’s side.
  — Rachel Schilke, Washington Examiner - Political News and Conservative Analysis About Congress, the President, and the Federal Government, 25 Feb. 2025
• Pressed on one side by hard-liners and on the other by opponents of the Islamic Republic, the regime’s centrists and reformists had become political nonentities.
  — Arash Azizi, The Atlantic, 14 Jan. 2025