How to Use centerfold in a Sentence

centerfold

noun
  • And of course, Karate Kid‘s Ralph Macchio in all his glory is the centerfold.
    Sydney Bucksbaum, EW.com, 6 July 2019
  • Rau, dressed in a white thong bikini, is instead the centerfold of that issue.
    Elizabeth Wellington, Philly.com, 23 Oct. 2017
  • Another of the first sponsors was Coca-Cola, whose ad played a jingle when the centerfold was opened.
    Chryselle D'silva Dias, The Christian Science Monitor, 1 Mar. 2021
  • While many women pose nude in the magazine, there is only one Playmate each month, who is featured as the centerfold.
    Mary Bowerman, USA TODAY, 20 Oct. 2017
  • Because one kangaroo seems to be gunning for the centerfold spot.
    Kelli Bender, PEOPLE.com, 11 Jan. 2018
  • He was laid to rest beside Marilyn Monroe — the subject of Playboy‘s first centerfold.
    Michele Corriston, PEOPLE.com, 3 Oct. 2017
  • Later, Herz splices centerfolds and glamour shots into scenes of workaday grime.
    Jeremy Lybarger, The New York Review of Books, 20 Apr. 2020
  • This is most aptly depicted shortly into the first episode, when the Minx team tries to cast their inaugural male centerfold.
    Katherine Singh, refinery29.com, 17 Mar. 2022
  • For the first time in its 64 year history, Playboy will feature a transgender woman as its centerfold.
    Chris Morris, Fortune, 20 Oct. 2017
  • Hefner still chooses the centerfolds, cartoons, and party jokes.
    Chris Jones, Esquire, 28 Sep. 2017
  • Nelson was part of a color centerfold portrait series that featured the faces of citizens of Alexandria.
    Dawn Mitchell, Indianapolis Star, 15 Nov. 2019
  • But among some of the boys in my sixth-grade class, cutouts of magazine centerfolds were circulating the sun-baked blacktop in an unvirtuous circle.
    Mike Kerrigan, WSJ, 10 May 2018
  • Rau is the magazine’s November Playmate, and has a photo spread and centerfold in the magazine, all photographed by Derek Kettela.
    Megan Friedman, Cosmopolitan, 19 Oct. 2017
  • Indeed, those Sidewinder fries, piled high with cheese curds, pulled pork, housemade sauce and creamy slaw — along with an overflowing ladle of cheese sauce — would make a fine centerfold for Gluttony Illustrated.
    Amy Drew Thompson, orlandosentinel.com, 26 Feb. 2021
  • For decades, the standard test image in the signal processing community was a picture, cropped to a headshot, of Lena Forsen, a Playboy centerfold model in 1972.
    New York Times, 14 Sep. 2021
  • One centerfold shows a woman on all fours, with a machine gun hanging at a diagonal between her legs, against a backdrop of camouflage netting.
    Johanna Ekström, The New Yorker, 22 July 2021
  • There was a memorable centerfold: a photograph of Neumann with his arms outstretched like Jesus, amid a blizzard of confetti.
    Charles Duhigg, The New Yorker, 23 Nov. 2020
  • Similar changes have also been seen with centerfold models.
    Glen Jankowski, Quartzy, 11 July 2019
  • In short, the website owner argued that there was no evidence that Boing Boing copied or displayed the centerfold photos or that any of its users downloaded the images instead of viewing them.
    Ashley Cullins, The Hollywood Reporter, 14 Feb. 2018
  • Its sleek puffers and plaid overshirts are always ready for the centerfold, and its sweaters or cardigans in classic cable knits or ribbed patterns feel sophisticated without doing too much.
    Maverick Li, Men's Health, 29 Dec. 2022
  • Founded in 1974, High Times is a counterculture survivor, with growing tips, music reviews and centerfolds of glittering green buds to decorate the walls of college dorms.
    Lisa M. Krieger, The Mercury News, 21 Feb. 2017
  • His sense of humor was always front and center, including famously posing nude for a centerfold in Hits magazine.
    Roy Trakin, Variety, 3 Nov. 2021
  • Wonder Woman,’’ and became the first centerfold for Playgirl magazine, died Tuesday.
    Lynn Elber, BostonGlobe.com, 17 Mar. 2020
  • In 1972, Cosmopolitan presented its first male centerfold: a furry Burt Reynolds, reclining nude on an equally furry rug.
    Soraya Roberts, New York Times, 9 Jan. 2018
  • History has conflated the Playboy Bunnies with the Playmates featured in the magazine’s centerfolds.
    Kimberly Chrisman-Campbell, The Atlantic, 4 Oct. 2017
  • This place bristles with manly Canadian bric-a-brac, stuffed fish, mounted deer and moose heads, old advertisements, beer bottles, Playboy centerfolds, painted seascapes.
    Sylvia Poggioli, The New York Review of Books, 29 Mar. 2020
  • But perhaps no single scene this year celebrated them more enthusiastically than the casting call in the premiere episode of Minx, which showcased the organ in all its varied glory as dozens of men lined up for the shot at a centerfold.
    Angie Han, The Hollywood Reporter, 22 Dec. 2022
  • All right, tonight's episode, a slimy lawyer secretly tapes his client referring to hush money paid to a centerfold who had consensual relations with a rich dude who later became our president.
    Fox News, 28 July 2018
  • Marilyn Monroe's nude image occupied the centerfold of the first ever edition of Playboy magazine in 1953.
    Joseph Hincks, Time, 29 Sep. 2017
  • Rapoport has cleverly blended bits of each together with other real-life publishing sensations of the time like Burt Reynolds’ famous (but carefully posed) nude Cosmopolitan centerfold.
    Alan Sepinwall, Rolling Stone, 15 Mar. 2022

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