How to Use concentric in a Sentence
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Then move through the concentric circles one stage at a time.
—Big Think, 7 May 2026
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To check, look for the icon that looks like a set of concentric circles.
—Cody Godwin, USA Today, 23 Dec. 2025
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The trail’s concentric loops can be hiked alone or tacked onto a longer trek.
—Sarah Meehan, Howard County Times, 3 May 2018
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The new pill shape was designed to be concentric to the corners.
—David Phelan, Forbes, 31 Oct. 2021
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The novel grows, as a tree grows, in a series of concentric rings.
—Dan Cryer, San Francisco Chronicle, 5 Apr. 2018
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If blood trail plays out, search for more in concentric circles or a grid pattern.
—John Goodspeed, San Antonio Express-News, 25 Jan. 2018
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The right-most screen will show both of these metrics as concentric circles.
—Ron Amadeo, Ars Technica, 28 Sep. 2018
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It’s laid out in a unique round pattern, with concentric circles of booths.
—Larry Olmsted, Forbes, 24 Oct. 2024
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Arrange half of the squash in the bottom of the pan in concentric circles.
—Taylor Murray, Good Housekeeping, 18 Aug. 2021
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Two pieces array concentric ovals or circles made of stoneware that looks as thin and fragile as skin.
—Mark Jenkins, Washington Post, 24 Nov. 2023
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These walls ran along the borders of foothills and in concentric circles around the summits.
—Literary Hub, 5 Dec. 2025
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Their eyes are locked on the target, called the house, which are the concentric circles at the other end.
—Alan Berner, The Seattle Times, 18 Feb. 2018
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The house, which is modeled around four concentric circles, is three stories tall.
—Madeleine Luckel, Vogue, 1 May 2017
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First, there are the concentric circle features, which look like wispy shells of ejecta blown off of the star.
—Big Think, 11 Feb. 2026
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At least six concentric rings can be seen, along with soil movement at even spacing along the whole perimeter.
—Jordan King john Feng, MSNBC Newsweek, 22 Aug. 2025
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These screws were made of stainless steel and the head of every screw [had] a pattern of concentric grooves.
—Jill Goldsmith, Deadline, 21 Apr. 2026
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The still explosions on the rocks, the lichens, grow by spreading, gray, concentric shocks.
—The New Yorker, 29 Nov. 2022
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The house is the the 12-foot wide set of concentric rings wrapped around the center, or the button.
—Khadrice Rollins, SI.com, 29 Nov. 2017
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Evke laser cut a thin sheet of plastic into a series of concentric circles.
—Courtney Linder, Popular Mechanics, 16 Oct. 2019
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The chairs were arranged in concentric circles, with an empty space in the center.
—Clare Sestanovich, The New Yorker, 2 Dec. 2019
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Lay out the tubes in concentric circles around the circumference of the tree.
—Nan Sterman, San Diego Union-Tribune, 1 Feb. 2025
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In a squat’s concentric phase, as the legs extend to stand, the gluteus contracts to pull the hips forward.
—Jamie Lauren Keiles, The New Yorker, 6 Apr. 2017
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Most of the webs are from orb weaver spiders who spin a series of elaborate concentric circles.
—Cori Brown, baltimoresun.com/maryland/carroll, 31 Oct. 2021
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The dial is surrounded by a bezel engraved with concentric waves.
—Carol Besler, Forbes.com, 20 Jan. 2026
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This means your muscles are working hard in both the concentric and eccentric portions of the move.
—SELF, 31 July 2021
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Starting with the outer edge of the wreath, use hot-glue to adhere three concentric rings of 16 corn husks each.
—Charlyne Mattox, Country Living, 14 Sep. 2022
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Now work your way around, placing the mussels in concentric rings or a spiral until they’re all arranged.
—Peter Barrett, Outside, 30 Aug. 2025
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At the same time, Wyss has sat near the center of concentric circles of influence.
—Emily Birnbaum, Fortune, 25 Jan. 2024
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Lay the tomato slices over the cheese, overlapping in concentric circles.
—Jill Gibson, BostonGlobe.com, 11 June 2018
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The weight of that crater has buckled the surface in that region, forming a ring of concentric circles around the crater.
—Jennifer Leman, Popular Mechanics, 7 Apr. 2020
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