How to Use epicenter in a Sentence

epicenter

noun

• 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
• 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 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
• 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
• 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
• In the last Cold War, southeast Asia, Asia was an epicenter of this shutdown.
  — CBS News, 10 Sep. 2023
• In the '80s and into the '90s, Ibiza was the epicenter of rave culture and the dance-music explosion that followed.
  — Hadley Freeman, Travel + Leisure, 20 June 2023
• Fort Worth could be the epicenter of Hollywood in Texas.
  — Winston Cho, The Hollywood Reporter, 27 Mar. 2023
• While there are proving grounds all over the country, New York City is its epicenter.
  — Nia Decaille, New York Times, 11 Nov. 2023
• Who knew the epicenter of baseball’s powerhouses would be deep in the heart of Texas.
  — Bob Nightengale, USA TODAY, 2 Aug. 2023
• Clearly, Zillow expects the U.S. Southeast to be the epicenter of home price growth in 2023.
  — Lance Lambert, Fortune, 7 Mar. 2023
• Umoja, who was born and raised in L.A., lived in Kwanzaa’s epicenter.
  — Malaika Jabali, Essence, 25 Dec. 2023
• And while battle rap has proving grounds all over the country, New York is its epicenter.
  — Ben Barzilai Christopher Lee, New York Times, 14 June 2023
• The neighborhood has been an epicenter of protests in recent months, sparked by the death of Mahsa Amini.
  — Bradford Betz, Fox News, 13 Mar. 2023
• From the epicenter, the rupture travels down the fold at about 3 kilometers per second, Hough said.
  — Julia Jacobo, ABC News, 19 Feb. 2023
• New York aside, Milan, London and Paris have been the epicenter of fashion in today's world.
  — Naledi Ushe, USA TODAY, 17 Feb. 2023
• The epicenter of the 6.8-magnitude earthquake was not far from the village that lies about two hours southwest of Marrakech.
  — Ivana Kottasová, CNN, 10 Sep. 2023
• The epicenter was at a depth of 5.9 kilometers or 3.6 miles, the USGS reported.
  — Karen Kucher, San Diego Union-Tribune, 15 Jan. 2024
• Favoring the young while expelling the old kept the genre at the epicenter of cool but limited which Black men’s health stories got told.
  — Keith Nelson, Men's Health, 1 Aug. 2023
• The epicenter was near the Jajarkot district, more than 300 miles west of the capital, Kathmandu.
  — Gerry Shih, Washington Post, 4 Nov. 2023
• Now in its third season, Harris finds himself at the epicenter of a major storyline on the show.
  — Jenelle Riley, Variety, 19 Apr. 2023
• Faux puts meat on those bare bones by escorting his readers to many of the epicenters of the crypto scam — Miami, the Bahamas, the Philippines and more.
  — Michael Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times, 3 Oct. 2023
• For more than a year, the epicenter has been the restive refugee camp in the northern city of Jenin, the target of a deadly two-day Israeli military incursion this week.
  — Miriam Berger, Washington Post, 6 July 2023
• Minnesota is the epicenter of some of the season’s most unusual heat and missing snow.
  — Mary Gilbert, CNN, 11 Feb. 2024

Last Updated: 7 May 2024