How to Use centrifugal in a Sentence

centrifugal

adjective
  • The most common type of juicer is the fast juicer, or centrifugal juicer.
    Hanna Horvath, NBC News, 5 Apr. 2021
  • For you, fruit juice friend, the Breville Juice Fountain Plus is the best centrifugal juicer.
    Lauren Joseph, Bon Appétit, 17 Mar. 2022
  • If -- and there's a couple of challenges here, and there are centrifugal circles around it.
    ABC News, 23 May 2021
  • But the centrifugal forces seem stronger and more mysterious this time.
    Charles P. Pierce, Esquire, 13 Aug. 2017
  • There will be a lot less exploratory behavior if the ant raft is spinning in response to centrifugal or shear forces.
    Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica, 5 Mar. 2022
  • This lightweight and durable reel allows for longer casts on the water thanks to the Hamai Precision Cut gears and centrifugal braking system.
    Amanda McElfresh, NOLA.com, 26 Nov. 2020
  • As a centrifugal juicer, Nutribullet’s Slow Juicer only has one speed.
    Brittany Vanderbill, Better Homes & Gardens, 15 Nov. 2022
  • Because of the Navi’s centrifugal clutch, all standing starts begin from a puttering idle.
    Dan Neil, WSJ, 4 Mar. 2022
  • Europe, the anchor of the trans-Atlantic alliance, is battling centrifugal forces unleashed by Britain’s vote to leave the European Union.
    Mark Landler and Rick Lyman, New York Times, 9 July 2016
  • Inside, most of the physical space is taken up by a disc drive and a centrifugal fan, which integrates liquid cooling in a console for the first time.
    Kyle Orland, Ars Technica, 12 June 2017
  • Jurewicz says that many centrifugal juicers come with varying speed options.
    Brittany Vanderbill, Better Homes & Gardens, 15 Nov. 2022
  • Will Ferrell knows how to use the centrifugal force of his personality to hold a movie together.
    Owen Gleiberman, chicagotribune.com, 30 June 2017
  • The first jet engines were either centrifugal or axial-flow types.
    Walter J. Boyne and Alex Hollings, Popular Mechanics, 23 May 2021
  • The floorless coaster-like seats with over-the-shoulder restraints allow riders to dangle their feet and arms as centrifugal force causes the gondolas to rock back and forth.
    Brady MacDonald, latimes.com, 1 May 2017
  • However, by relocating the air-con unit to the front trunk, Theon Design could use the same mounting points to bolt on a centrifugal supercharger.
    Tim Pitt, Robb Report, 15 Dec. 2022
  • The centrifugal dynamic may be more in evidence tonight.
    Jim Lardner, The New Yorker, 12 Sep. 2019
  • In the eastern end of the building is the laundry, containing an electric centrifugal wringer and steam drying room, with a capacity for drying 500 suits an hour.
    San Diego Union-Tribune, 2 Aug. 2022
  • The system covers the entirety of both schools, and involves multiple pipes coming from underneath the schools' floors, and connecting to centrifugal fans on the roof.
    London Gibson, Indianapolis Star, 25 June 2019
  • Scientists got this by using Newton’s Law of Gravity and throwing in the effects of centrifugal force.
    AL.com, 19 Aug. 2017
  • The iMac Pro also comes with a new dual centrifugal fan system that generates more airflow, Apple said when unveiling it in June.
    Lisa Eadicicco, Time, 12 Dec. 2017
  • If there are ripples along the boundary between those layers, the shearing action creates centrifugal forces that swirl the fluids—or bodies of air—together.
    Emily Elert, Discover Magazine, 26 July 2012
  • But besides that noisiness, centrifugal juicers do have their appeal.
    Lauren Joseph, Bon Appétit, 17 Mar. 2022
  • The new transmission is also quieter, by virtue of a centrifugal pendulum absorber.
    Ezra Dyer, Car and Driver, 15 Sep. 2020
  • The men’s and women’s tours operate separately, and the four majors are independent from the tours — in tennis, all the energy is centrifugal.
    New York Times, 29 June 2021
  • Two forces enable satellites to remain in orbit: the centrifugal punch that blasted it into space and Earth's gravitational pull.
    Ned Rozell, Anchorage Daily News, 25 Mar. 2018
  • The message financial markets sent at the time was simple: centrifugal forces between the diverse ethnic nations would tear Europe apart and doom the single currency.
    Christiaan Hetzner, Fortune, 21 July 2022
  • Like a spinning lawn sprinkler, propelled by centrifugal forces, the water spirals outward, away from the sprinkler head, siphoning some of the star's angular momentum.
    Ian O'Neill Space.com Contributor, Fox News, 20 June 2017
  • Her speech may not convey the compact lyrical eloquence of Marc Antony, but the sights and sounds of her presentation deliver the centrifugal emotional force of a potent soliloquy.
    Peter Marks, Washington Post, 21 Aug. 2019
  • After this centrifugal rush, the return to earth, during her depressive periods, is wrenching.
    Hannah Williams, The New Yorker, 28 July 2022
  • Souter is a centrifugal intellectual force in Rosengart’s career, a proverbial north star, the person to whom Rosengart turns when grappling with legal questions and quandaries about life.
    Malina Saval, Variety, 21 Apr. 2022

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