centrifugal

Example Sentences

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“The cable is holding you up and simulating centrifugal force on the corner,” Corby said.

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 11, 2026

These are centrifugal forces shaping the uneasy calm in the world economy.

From BBC • Oct. 19, 2025

As an earthbound motorcyclist speeds around the cylinder, their inertia pushes them into the wall, creating an outward centrifugal force.

From Science Magazine • Apr. 30, 2024

The mall was the natural spinoff of the centrifugal force reshaping how Americans lived.

From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 20, 2024

There were fifty or sixty huge structures still standing, streets were dusty but paved, and you could see one or two old centrifugal fountains still pulsing wetly in the plazas.

From "The Martian Chronicles" by Ray Bradbury