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
  • That date is widely anticipated to be the epicenter of transaction season for many teams around the league, spurred by a bubbling trade market and a relatively dormant free-agent class.
    Bennett Durando, Denver Post, 12 June 2025

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