CENTER in a Sentence

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For CENTER, below is one of 200 sentences:
Somehow Melanie made her way to the center of the excited throng and somehow made her usually soft voice heard above the tumult.

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 Meanings and Examples of CENTER
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
center
 n.  a point around which anything revolves
Classic Sentence: (103 in 7 pages)
1  The Munroe girls rushed up to exclaim over her dress, and she was speedily the center of a circle of voices that rose higher and higher in efforts to be heard above the din.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VI
2  She was undoubtedly the belle of the barbecue, the center of attention.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VI
3  Restless, energetic people from the older sections of Georgia and from more distant states were drawn to this town that sprawled itself around the junction of the railroads in its center.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VIII
4  In the center of the hall the huge ugly lamp, hanging from the ceiling by rusty chains, was completely transformed by twining ivy and wild grapevines that were already withering from the heat.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER IX
5  And all her life she had enjoyed the center of the stage.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER IX
6  She would be there, right in the heart of things, right in the center of a crowd of men.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER X
7  In addition to the defeats at Gettysburg and Vicksburg, the center of the Southern line had caved.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XVI
8  The interior section was what counted, if the South was going to win the war, and Atlanta was now the center of things.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XVI
9  The flames seemed to be off to the east of the center of town.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXIII
10  I thought by circling around the center of town, we might avoid the fire and that drunken mob on Decatur Street and get through to the southwest part of town without any danger.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXIII
11  Surrounding the building completely and covering the square of land of which it was the center were row after row of army huts, dingy and mud splashed.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXIV
12  Atlanta was again the center of activities for a wide region, as it had been before its destruction, and the town was receiving a great influx of new citizens, both welcome and unwelcome.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXVII
13  Somehow Melanie made her way to the center of the excited throng and somehow made her usually soft voice heard above the tumult.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XLI
14  Grandpa Merriwether's pie wagon was in the center of the tangle and, as she came closer, Scarlett saw that Tommy Wellburn and Uncle Henry Hamilton were crowded on the seat with him.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XLII
15  She's the soul and the center of everything in Atlanta that's sterling.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER LII
Example Sentence: (97 in 7 pages)
16  At the center of the dial is a piece of smoky glass.
17  The business is located right in the center of town.
18  There's a shuttle service from the city center to the airport.
19  The entire metropolitan center possessed a high and mighty air calculated to overawe and abash the common applicant.
20  A heavy car with a low center of gravity will hug the road.
21  There was a square with trees and grass in it in the center of the city.
22  The teacher told his pupils to spread out and not to bunch up in the center of the playground.
23  He is currently being held in a metropolitan correctional center.
24  Some students today blocked a highway that cuts through the center of the city.
25  He put the pile of chips in the center of the table and drew a card.
26  The community will get a boost from a new library and recreation center.
27  We went into the town center.
28  The medical center is on one level.
29  The governor found himself at the center of a political storm.
30  The city has developed into a center of industry.