How to Use epicenter in a Sentence

epicenter

noun
  • The epicenter of the carnage is the Strait of Gibraltar.
    — Tomas Weber, Rolling Stone, 18 May 2024
  • The Stork was, for a time, the epicenter of the New York social scene, the Studio 54 of its day.
    — Jason O'Bryan, Robb Report, 25 Feb. 2023
  • Key streets are going to be blocked off at the epicenter of the draft.
    — Susan Tompor, Detroit Free Press, 14 Mar. 2024
  • Erzin is about 70 miles or so from the quake's epicenter.
    — Kristina Jovanovski, NBC News, 15 Feb. 2023
  • Next week, the Queen City could be the epicenter of the movie's production.
    — David Wysong, The Enquirer, 12 July 2024
  • Over the past decade, the South has emerged as the epicenter of the nation’s H.I.V. epidemic.
    — Ava Sasani, New York Times, 24 Mar. 2023
  • Colton got a shaking, at about a mile from the quake’s epicenter.
    — Rong-Gong Lin Ii, Los Angeles Times, 25 Jan. 2024
  • The epicenter of the losses is in growth stocks which were the first to crack and helped usher in the bear market.
    — Bill Stone, Forbes, 3 July 2022
  • The quake, whose epicenter was the Turkish city of Gaziantep, measured 7.8 on the Richter scale.
    — David Faris, The Week, 9 Feb. 2023
  • In 2009, India was the polio epicenter of the world, home to half of the world’s cases.
    — Anne Toomey, The Conversation, 12 Feb. 2025
  • The epicenter was in the province of Paktika, about 30 miles from the city of Khost.
    — Sasha Warren, Scientific American, 24 June 2022
  • The earthquake's epicenter was near Ighil, a town in the Al Haouz Province.
    — Andrea Vacchiano, Fox News, 9 Sep. 2023
  • The Sacred Precinct, home of the Templo Mayor, was the epicenter of the city.
    — WIRED, 17 Sep. 2023
  • Zen is at the epicenter of the Catholic Church's fight for survival in China.
    — Fox News, 25 May 2022
  • There are no islands or buoys between the epicenter and the land.
    — Paul Rogers, The Mercury News, 8 Dec. 2024
  • Phoenix, at the epicenter, just logged its hottest month on record - and the hottest month ever observed in a U.S. city.
    — Matthew Cappucci, Anchorage Daily News, 1 Aug. 2023
  • Even those of us that live far from the epicenter of these fires spent a lot of the summer breathing their smoke.
    — Chris Klimek, Smithsonian Magazine, 30 Nov. 2023
  • And its epicenter is the patch of real estate on the west side of the highway, mere yards from the Nevada side.
    — Sacramento Bee, 30 Jan. 2024
  • Historic Township Hall once again serves as the epicenter of the event.
    — Joey Morona, cleveland, 11 Aug. 2022
  • All these factors helped make Harlem the epicenter of the era, where Gladys Bentley rose to fame.
    — Dr. Cookie Woolner, Harper's BAZAAR, 28 Mar. 2023
  • The epicenter of the protests is expected to be in Nairobi.
    — Larry Madowo, CNN, 24 June 2024
  • In just a few months, Ukraine has become the epicenter of one of the largest human displacements in the world.
    — Caitlin Dickerson, The Atlantic, 3 May 2022
  • But unlike the last time around—the 2008 housing bust—the U.S. won’t be at the epicenter of this housing pullback.
    — Lance Lambert, Fortune, 7 Sep. 2022
  • In the last Cold War, southeast Asia, Asia was an epicenter of this shutdown.
    — CBS News, 10 Sep. 2023
  • The quake struck at 2:34 a.m., its epicenter just offshore.
    — Los Angeles Times, 22 Dec. 2022
  • This, of course, is not the first time Timberlake has been at the epicenter of a clothing scandal.
    — Caroline Thayer, Fox News, 17 Dec. 2024
  • In the '80s and into the '90s, Ibiza was the epicenter of rave culture and the dance-music explosion that followed.
    — Hadley Freeman, Travel + Leisure, 20 June 2023
  • Fort Worth could be the epicenter of Hollywood in Texas.
    — Winston Cho, The Hollywood Reporter, 27 Mar. 2023
  • To most of the world, London is the epicenter of stately and venerable — places, palaces, institutions with longevity and heft around every corner.
    — Derek Newton, Forbes, 26 Feb. 2025
  • Columbia became the epicenter for pro-Palestinian protests last spring when a pro-Palestinian encampment launched a wave of copycat tent cities across American college campuses.
    — Cayla Bamberger, New York Daily News, 4 Mar. 2025

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