How to Use epicenter in a Sentence

epicenter

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  • 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 quake, whose epicenter was the Turkish city of Gaziantep, measured 7.8 on the Richter scale.
    — David Faris, The Week, 9 Feb. 2023
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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 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
  • 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
  • While there are proving grounds all over the country, New York City is its epicenter.
    — Nia Decaille, New York Times, 11 Nov. 2023
  • Khan Younis was the epicenter of heavy fighting, Israeli airstrikes and shelling a few months ago.
    — Anas Baba, NPR, 4 June 2024
  • The team of dogs will land in Adana, a major southern city near the epicenter of the earthquake, according to the statement.
    — CNN, 8 Feb. 2023
  • Who knew the epicenter of baseball’s powerhouses would be deep in the heart of Texas.
    — Bob Nightengale, USA TODAY, 2 Aug. 2023
  • Clearly, Zillow expects the U.S. Southeast to be the epicenter of home price growth in 2023.
    — Lance Lambert, Fortune, 7 Mar. 2023
  • Umoja, who was born and raised in L.A., lived in Kwanzaa’s epicenter.
    — Malaika Jabali, Essence, 25 Dec. 2023
  • And while battle rap has proving grounds all over the country, New York is its epicenter.
    — Ben Barzilai Christopher Lee, New York Times, 14 June 2023
  • In the past month, El Paso has become an epicenter for the ongoing surge of people arriving to the U.S. in the south.
    — Justin Gomez, ABC News, 8 Jan. 2023
  • The neighborhood has been an epicenter of protests in recent months, sparked by the death of Mahsa Amini.
    — Bradford Betz, Fox News, 13 Mar. 2023
  • Those earthquakes had an epicenter close to the 60 Freeway’s Archibald Avenue exit.
    — Rong-Gong Lin Ii, Los Angeles Times, 1 Oct. 2024
  • Even though Asheville was five hundred miles from where Hurricane Helene made landfall, the area quickly became the epicenter of a regional crisis.
    — Jessica Pishko, The New Yorker, 6 Oct. 2024

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