How to Use to the core in a Sentence
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The scenes that leave us shook to the core for nights to come?
—Milan Polk, Men's Health, 26 Jan. 2023
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Work hard to find the words to get to the core of a topic.
—Harriette Cole, The Mercury News, 22 May 2024
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And to me, That scene gets to the core of what this film is about.
—Outside Online, 2 Apr. 2025
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The details of their deaths shocked the country to the core.
—Orly Halpern / Jerusalem, TIME, 2 Sep. 2024
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For Hugh, its messages speak to the core of all of her work.
—Stewart Clarke, Deadline, 21 Oct. 2024
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It’s been a giant shock to the core to see this unfold this way.
—Michael Dorgan, Fox News, 2 Nov. 2024
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It’s been a giant shock to the core to see this unfold this way.
—Sarah Rumpf-Whitten, Fox News, 27 Feb. 2025
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It’s been a giant shock to the core to see this unfold this way.
—Michael Dorgan, Fox News, 14 Nov. 2024
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But once the coast is clear, this couple will be loyal to the core.
—Naydeline Mejia, Women's Health, 25 Mar. 2023
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This was the second incident that struck me to the core.
—Mary Divine, Twin Cities, 21 Apr. 2024
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The next time Arteaga was shaken to the core was in July 2018.
—Susan Miller Degnan, Miami Herald, 13 Feb. 2024
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Hollowed to the core, the Haitian state exists in name only.
—Monique Clesca, Washington Post, 18 June 2024
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Dionne Warwick knows the apple is rotten right to the core.
—Alejandra Gularte, Vulture, 22 Oct. 2024
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This tragedy has shaken me, family, and friends to the core.
—Lee Habeeb, MSNBC Newsweek, 3 Apr. 2025
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This threat cuts to the core of the liberal democratic way of life.
—Richard Fontaine, Foreign Affairs, 7 Aug. 2023
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The lack of windscreen quickly left me frozen to the core, even at limited speeds with the plow down.
—Tim Stevens, Ars Technica, 11 Feb. 2025
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This gets to the core of how people think of autism and disability as a whole.
—Pablo Manríquez, The New Republic, 11 July 2023
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Her pain is very quiet and very nuanced, but she is shaken to the core.
—Nina Metz, Chicago Tribune, 26 Sep. 2024
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Traders couldn't quite get to the core of the latest inflation report.
—Heard Editors, WSJ, 12 Jan. 2023
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This is a thriller to the core, one that readers will want to finish in a single sitting.
—E.a. Aymar, Washington Post, 25 May 2023
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Everything comes back to the core story of this country: land that was stolen from the get-go.
—Matthew Jacobs, The Hollywood Reporter, 19 Dec. 2023
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The small team behind Crunch is tying this to the core of their new AI-focused startup.
—Brianna Kamienski, USA TODAY, 8 July 2024
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At a key moment, Cozens tried to use his voice as a leader and cut to the core of his team’s issues.
—Matthew Fairburn, New York Times, 26 Mar. 2025
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Next up, honoree Willett spoke to the core of what marketing means to her.
—Meredith Woerner, Variety, 27 Oct. 2023
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The wind would whistle through and chill us to the core, but Dad thought the radiant electric heating cost too much.
—James Rainey, Los Angeles Times, 12 Jan. 2025
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This wounds Hope to the core, but Doc refuses to apologize.
—Sara Netzley, EW.com, 19 Dec. 2024
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And this gets to the core of a battle at the middle of modern sports: business versus emotion.
—Callum Booth, Forbes, 6 Mar. 2025
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The way to get there now doesn’t seem to be providing more support to the core group but instead by changing it up.
—Jeremy Rutherford, The Athletic, 20 Feb. 2025
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Yet the series remains authentic to the core of O’Malley’s epic creation.
—Michael Cavna, Washington Post, 17 Nov. 2023
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The thought of being ripped from her home, without time to pack up her belongings or say goodbye to friends, shakes her to the core.
—Rebecca Plevin, Los Angeles Times, 18 Apr. 2025
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