HUB in a Sentence

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Greater Tokyo, with legions of wealthy retirees among its 35m residents, could handily outstrip tiny Singapore as a gambling hub.

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 Meanings and Examples of HUB
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hub
 n.  core port; nucleus; heart; center
Classic Sentence:
1  The shock administered by the mail-wagon had split two spokes and strained the hub, so that the nut no longer held firm.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 7: CHAPTER V—HINDRANCES
2  Two new spokes and a hub must be made.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 7: CHAPTER V—HINDRANCES
3  At the present hour, the radiation of diseases from Paris extends to fifty leagues around the Louvre, taken as the hub of this pestilential wheel.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER VI—FUTURE PROGRESS
4  The ruts were up to the hubs of the cannons.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER XI—A BAD GUIDE TO NAPOLEON; A GOOD GUIDE TO BULOW
Example Sentence:
1  With competition from cities like Berlin, Shanghai or Mumbai, we must not jeopardise London's position as a world creative hub.
2  The spokes of the wheel diverge from the hub.
3  It aims to compete with aviation hub like Singapore.
4  The City of London is the hub of Britain's financial world.
5  Each country runs a national network that links to a host computer in a research institution that acts as a national hub.
6  Birmingham is at the hub of Britain's motorway network.
7  There is no credible rival for its position as the world's preeminent innovation hub; but there are signs that the Valley's influence is peaking.
8  Greater Tokyo, with legions of wealthy retirees among its 35m residents, could handily outstrip tiny Singapore as a gambling hub.