centripetal

Example Sentences

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You can hear him mining the soil for information, creating melodies with a centripetal pull, building rhythms that leave a listener no option but to pick up on the momentum.

From New York Times

Weed’s “collection architecture,” rife with hollows, depressions and shallow scoop bunkers that gather shots, celebrates the centripetal force of gravity.

From Golf Digest

This is a location where the centripetal force of the rotating Earth-Moon system balances out the gravitational pull of the two bodies.

From Scientific American

Some of Schumann’s most compelling music holds these two forces in tension — centrifugal and centripetal, reaching and enfolding.

From New York Times

Such landforms can arise from rapid rotation, in which centripetal force pushes material together to make a bulge.

From Scientific American