How to Use epicenter in a Sentence

epicenter

noun

• The epicenter of the carnage is the Strait of Gibraltar.
  — Tomas Weber, Rolling Stone, 18 May 2024
• The Stork was, for a time, the epicenter of the New York social scene, the Studio 54 of its day.
  — Jason O'Bryan, Robb Report, 25 Feb. 2023
• Key streets are going to be blocked off at the epicenter of the draft.
  — Susan Tompor, Detroit Free Press, 14 Mar. 2024
• Erzin is about 70 miles or so from the quake's epicenter.
  — Kristina Jovanovski, NBC News, 15 Feb. 2023
• But by the end of the year, the state was the U.S. epicenter for the virus and many hospitals were overwhelmed.
  — Amy Taxin, ajc, 9 Dec. 2021
• Next week, the Queen City could be the epicenter of the movie's production.
  — David Wysong, The Enquirer, 12 July 2024
• Over the past decade, the South has emerged as the epicenter of the nation’s H.I.V. epidemic.
  — Ava Sasani, New York Times, 24 Mar. 2023
• Colton got a shaking, at about a mile from the quake’s epicenter.
  — Rong-Gong Lin Ii, Los Angeles Times, 25 Jan. 2024
• The epicenter of the losses is in growth stocks which were the first to crack and helped usher in the bear market.
  — Bill Stone, Forbes, 3 July 2022
• The quake, whose epicenter was the Turkish city of Gaziantep, measured 7.8 on the Richter scale.
  — David Faris, The Week, 9 Feb. 2023
• In 2009, India was the polio epicenter of the world, home to half of the world’s cases.
  — Anne Toomey, The Conversation, 12 Feb. 2025
• The ripples reappear, and in the epicenter, a hand emerges from the water.
  — Seija Rankin, EW.com, 18 Nov. 2021
• The epicenter was in the province of Paktika, about 30 miles from the city of Khost.
  — Sasha Warren, Scientific American, 24 June 2022
• The earthquake's epicenter was near Ighil, a town in the Al Haouz Province.
  — Andrea Vacchiano, Fox News, 9 Sep. 2023
• The Sacred Precinct, home of the Templo Mayor, was the epicenter of the city.
  — WIRED, 17 Sep. 2023
• Zen is at the epicenter of the Catholic Church's fight for survival in China.
  — Fox News, 25 May 2022
• Auckland, which is the epicenter of the outbreak, will start at red.
  — NBC News, 22 Nov. 2021
• There are no islands or buoys between the epicenter and the land.
  — Paul Rogers, The Mercury News, 8 Dec. 2024
• Phoenix, at the epicenter, just logged its hottest month on record - and the hottest month ever observed in a U.S. city.
  — Matthew Cappucci, Anchorage Daily News, 1 Aug. 2023
• Even those of us that live far from the epicenter of these fires spent a lot of the summer breathing their smoke.
  — Chris Klimek, Smithsonian Magazine, 30 Nov. 2023
• And its epicenter is the patch of real estate on the west side of the highway, mere yards from the Nevada side.
  — Sacramento Bee, 30 Jan. 2024
• Columbia was the epicenter of campus protests last year amid the war in the Gaza Strip.
  — Thomas G. Moukawsher, MSNBC Newsweek, 17 Apr. 2025
• Columbia was the epicenter of campus protests last year amid the war in the Gaza Strip.
  — Anna Commander gabe Whisnant, MSNBC Newsweek, 24 May 2025
• Historic Township Hall once again serves as the epicenter of the event.
  — Joey Morona, cleveland, 11 Aug. 2022
• All these factors helped make Harlem the epicenter of the era, where Gladys Bentley rose to fame.
  — Dr. Cookie Woolner, Harper's BAZAAR, 28 Mar. 2023
• That city was the epicenter of this blend of guitars with club music.
  — Andy Greene, Rolling Stone, 18 Nov. 2021
• The epicenter of the protests is expected to be in Nairobi.
  — Larry Madowo, CNN, 24 June 2024
• Testing labs have been set up in Lubbock, close to the epicenter of the outbreak.
  — Neha Mukherjee, CNN, 21 Mar. 2025
• Parts of of East and West Africa have emerged as epicenters of violence.
  — Sam Metz, Los Angeles Times, 26 May 2025
• Anderson said his district — which includes El Cajon and much of East County — has been the epicenter of much of the fentanyl and opioid abuse in recent years.
  — Caleb Lunetta, San Diego Union-Tribune, 24 June 2025