How to Use centrifugal in a Sentence

centrifugal

adjective
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  • 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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