How to Use left of center in a Sentence

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  • Betelgeuse is the bright, red star just left of center.
    — Popular Mechanics, 18 Apr. 2023
  • Is the Journal slowly drifting a little bit to the left of center?
    — WSJ, 21 Jan. 2022
  • Maria Grazia Chiuri of Dior is always on a path to a sort of beauty that’s just left of center.
    — Rachel Tashjian, Harper's BAZAAR, 30 Sep. 2022
  • The decision had been made and the Ravens lined up with an eight-man offensive line – five to the left of center Bradley Bozeman.
    — Chris Bumbaca, USA TODAY, 20 Sep. 2021
  • In the foreground, just left of center, a thin plume of white smoke rises from the crater of Mount Bromo, an active volcano.
    — Carlyn Kranking, Smithsonian Magazine, 6 Oct. 2022
  • Ison went left of center and hit Christon's car head-on near Milepost 9, according to the patrol.
    — Erin Couch, The Enquirer, 22 Aug. 2022
  • Police charged the man with OVI and driving left of center, and suspended his license.
    — cleveland, 19 July 2022
  • But that positioning has presented challenges in her one-on-one race with Wu in a city where most of the electorate is to the left of center.
    — Maeve Reston, CNN, 31 Oct. 2021
  • Just left of center, a newborn star is identifiable by its golden tail.
    — Fionna M. D. Samuels, Scientific American, 21 July 2022
  • Christy Byerly, a Phoenix resident of 30 years, described herself as left of center.
    — Lane Sainty, The Arizona Republic, 6 Nov. 2022
  • Among the forces of insecurity Bardhan identifies, these are the ones that lend themselves most comfortably to remedies from the left of center.
    — Alexander Burns, The New York Review of Books, 29 Dec. 2022
  • Your Bourdain profile, to take an example, starts somewhat left of center stage with a detailed description of President Barack Obama’s motorcade.
    — Ava Kofman, ProPublica, 18 July 2022
  • Marvel, too, at the subtle but unaccountably powerful opening up of imaginary space generated by those slivers of dark gray between the sturdy verticals just to the left of center.
    — Washington Post, 5 Oct. 2022
  • Justice Breyer, 83, has been a pragmatic force on a court that has grown increasingly conservative in recent years, trying to forge majorities with more moderate justices right and left of center.
    — Mark Sherman and Michael Balsamo, The Christian Science Monitor, 26 Jan. 2022
  • Police arrested the driver, a Solon man, 19. Police charged the man with fleeing and eluding, speeding, failure to stop at a stop sign, driving left of center, failure to control, reckless operation, and driving an unsafe vehicle.
    — cleveland, 1 Feb. 2023
  • Most nonreligious people are left of center but not liberal, while fully secular people are incredibly liberal.
    — The Salt Lake Tribune, 9 Mar. 2022

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