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
  • Work hard to find the words to get to the core of a topic.
    Harriette Cole, The Mercury News, 22 May 2024
  • The details of their deaths shocked the country to the core.
    Orly Halpern / Jerusalem, TIME, 2 Sep. 2024
  • For Hugh, its messages speak to the core of all of her work.
    Stewart Clarke, Deadline, 21 Oct. 2024
  • But once the coast is clear, this couple will be loyal to the core.
    Naydeline Mejia, Women's Health, 25 Mar. 2023
  • This was the second incident that struck me to the core.
    Mary Divine, Twin Cities, 21 Apr. 2024
  • The next time Arteaga was shaken to the core was in July 2018.
    Susan Miller Degnan, Miami Herald, 13 Feb. 2024
  • Hollowed to the core, the Haitian state exists in name only.
    Monique Clesca, Washington Post, 18 June 2024
  • This threat cuts to the core of the liberal democratic way of life.
    Richard Fontaine, Foreign Affairs, 7 Aug. 2023
  • This gets to the core of how people think of autism and disability as a whole.
    Pablo Manríquez, The New Republic, 11 July 2023
  • Her pain is very quiet and very nuanced, but she is shaken to the core.
    Nina Metz, Chicago Tribune, 26 Sep. 2024
  • Traders couldn't quite get to the core of the latest inflation report.
    Heard Editors, WSJ, 12 Jan. 2023
  • 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
  • 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
  • The small team behind Crunch is tying this to the core of their new AI-focused startup.
    Brianna Kamienski, USA TODAY, 8 July 2024
  • Next up, honoree Willett spoke to the core of what marketing means to her.
    Meredith Woerner, Variety, 27 Oct. 2023
  • Yet the series remains authentic to the core of O’Malley’s epic creation.
    Michael Cavna, Washington Post, 17 Nov. 2023
  • Now the kid who has grown up around horses and ridden horses since high school, an equestrian to the core, has a pony car.
    Phoebe Wall Howard, Detroit Free Press, 19 Apr. 2024
  • At its heart, the project is an attempt to get to the core of the creative process by coding the cognitive process into software.
    The New Yorker, 16 Feb. 2024
  • Once the blood is warmed and brought back to the core, your overall body temperature increases.
    Amudalat Ajasa, Washington Post, 1 Aug. 2024
  • Redkens Moisture Complex features a blend of soy protein, arginine, and argan oil that treats your hair from the root to the core and core to the tip.
    Sharon Brandwein, Southern Living, 8 Aug. 2024
  • The ruling shook American jurisprudence around firearms to the core.
    Kevin Rector, Los Angeles Times, 28 Feb. 2024
  • The mechanical core is on the windowless fourth side, creating depths up to 72 feet from the windows to the core.
    Larry Buchanan, New York Times, 11 Mar. 2023
  • The result is a 1975 album that gets to the core of many of the band’s beliefs: sincerity, love, lewdness, and air-tight pop music.
    Pitchfork, 1 Oct. 2024
  • In the next instant, Flannery rises from her typewriter, shaken to the core.
    Sheri Linden, The Hollywood Reporter, 6 Sep. 2023
  • Both elections speak to the core of climate change’s democracy challenge.
    Justin Worland, TIME, 11 Jan. 2024
  • And in the coming year, their contributions can be even more critical to the core business.
    Forbes, 1 Mar. 2024
  • Page dresses according to the core tenets of WFH styling: comfort, comfort, and comfort.
    Halie Lesavage, Harper's BAZAAR, 3 Feb. 2023
  • That desire speaks to the core values White hopes to bring into the Sun organization.
    Lila Bromberg, Hartford Courant, 21 Nov. 2022
  • There is no greater example of the importance of this than the Covid-19 pandemic that shook nearly every form of business to the core.
    Rebecca Kowalewicz, Forbes, 23 Feb. 2023

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