Hub of the Universe

Example Sentences

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Boston's icy reception to the Games may reveal something deeper about the city that likes to call itself the Hub of the Universe, often without irony.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 18, 2015

Augustus Cabot chose a school, a select, aristocratic and expensive school near the "Hub of the Universe."

From Galusha the Magnificent by Lincoln, Joseph Crosby

Boston I believe is a great place and ’tis called the Hub of the Universe.

From The Whale and the Grasshopper And other Fables by O'Brien, Seumas

"Paris will soon be the Boston of Europe—it will be the Hub of the Universe."

From Mr. Bonaparte of Corsica by Bangs, John Kendrick

A friend from the Hub of the Universe, in a somewhat supercilious manner, not long ago informed one of our local friends that his own home was hundreds of miles to the southward.

From Le Petit Nord or, Annals of a Labrador Harbour by Grenfell, Wilfred Thomason, Sir