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Example sentences for "centers"

Lexicographically close words:
center; centerboard; centered; centering; centerpiece; centesimal; centesimi; centesimos; centigrade; centigrammes
  1. So he has called you from the seven centers of the world, and he has breathed the breath of wisdom and of power into your souls, and now he sends you forth as bearers of the light of life, apostles of the human race.

  2. We did not ask his errand, and none of us suspected the purpose of his systematic visiting among the more influential centers of that country.

  3. One of the centers of disturbances was Finland.

  4. There is the narrative of the events, the orderly, understanding arrangement and coordination of the showers of facts and rumors that blow in from a hundred sources to the great news centers far from the front.

  5. Similar scenes were repeated in Warsaw, in Lodz and in other Russian industrial centers during 1905.

  6. Some farmers employ men by the month, paying from $15 to $18 and board, but at a distance from centers of population this transient labor is hard to secure, and even fancy wages sometimes fail to attract a sufficient supply.

  7. The scene is laid in the mining centers of Montana, where politics and mining industries are the religion of the country.

  8. The story centers round the coming of love to the young people on the staff of a newspaper--and it is one of the prettiest, sweetest and quaintest of old-fashioned Love stories.

  9. It was impossible, after sojourning a certain time upon the hill, not to concede that there were two equally strong centers of attraction that drew the world hitherward.

  10. They left the ordinary centers of amusement behind them and entered a meaner quarter where half-breeds and negroes predominated; at last after a very long drive they pulled up before what looked like a third-rate saloon.

  11. In the abdomen the sympathetic centers are situated upon the coeliac artery, and are termed, collectively, the semilunar coeliac ganglion.

  12. The rubbing of the back should be deferred till the close of each application, in order that the spinal centers may be relieved of hyperaemia, or excess of blood.

  13. If this portion of the brain indicates a full development, we say of such a temperament that it is VITAL, because the functions of its nerve-centers are favorable to evolution.

  14. Its influence upon the nerve centers is remarkable.

  15. At a few centers like Alexandria and Athens, art and science were cultivated to a very high degree, but Greece had nothing new to contribute to the world, and its labors henceforth were for Roman hire, or frequently the work of bondmen.

  16. Especially let us urge upon the citizens of San Jose, the duty of sustaining the work of this local circle, a work which we believe would be an honor to the literary centers of our Eastern States, or even to the “Hub of the Universe.

  17. Work of this sort is used in many schools as a method of teaching number, the teacher dictating the combinations while the interest of the children centers in the new pattern which develops under their fingers.

  18. If the work centers around the Christmas tree, it offers opportunity for coöperation in making trimming such as paper chains, pop-corn strings, etc.

  19. Commercial centers in days gone by existed without railroads, but railroads could not long exist without the stimulating influence of these busy marts of trade.

  20. Both are thrifty, progressive States, with no large commercial or manufacturing centers where their people can easily organize to protect their financial interests.

  21. These were rather the provincial centers than the provinces themselves.

  22. Besides these important centers there were 450 prefectures.

  23. In the third place the monasteries were the great literary centers during the centuries preceding the rise of the present dynasty, and we may well believe that the Mongols would not seriously molest these sacred repositories.

  24. One of the famous traditions of Korea centers about this king.

  25. A Mongol residency was established at Song-do and Mongol governors were stationed at important centers throughout the country.

  26. The wind brought messages of some divine deliverance approaching slowly, the heat of that pearly, shining sun warmed centers of his being that hitherto the world kept chill.

  27. They had reached a considerable degree of culture, which suggests that they themselves came from earlier centers of civilization.

  28. Italian cities, and those in political power did much to make their cities notable centers for classical studies.

  29. Within a month they were known in all the important centers of the Western Christian world.

  30. In addition there were hundreds of other cities scattered all over the Empire, each with its own municipal life, while on the frontier were stockaded villages serving as centers of trade with the barbarian tribes beyond.

  31. In the Palatinate (see map, Figure 88) some progress in founding churches and schools was made, especially about Strassburg, and the universities of Heidelberg and Marburg became the centers of Huguenot teaching.

  32. But even here they lost most of their earlier importance as centers of culture and trade, becoming merely ecclesiastical towns.

  33. In a few schools there was no decline, and these became the centers of learning of the future.

  34. These were the centers of Roman civilization and culture.

  35. Early in the nineteenth century the German universities took the lead as centers for the new scientific studies (p.

  36. The beginnings of a new Christian civilization among the tribes which had invaded and overrun the old Roman Empire are evident, and, toward the latter part of the Middle Ages, we note the development of a number of centers of learning (R.

  37. So important was his work as a teacher as well that at his death, in 814, most of the important educational centers of the kingdom were in the hands of his former pupils.

  38. As Wuhu is the center of the rice trade these twin cities of Anking will be the centers of the tea trade.

  39. Pipe line systems should be installed between oil districts and populous and industrial centers in the interior and also river and sea ports.

  40. Like Wuhu, these twin cities are also situated in the midst of rich iron and coal fields which will assist them to become important industrial centers in the near future.

  41. This Poyang Port is bound to grow into one of the great commercial and manufacturing centers in China, judging from the possibilities of Kiangsi alone.

  42. For this purpose, much capital should be invested, and factories should be put up in industrial centers or in the neighborhood of iron and coal fields, where labor and material could be easily found.

  43. All four are in centers of both land and water communication, where skilled labor can easily be obtained.

  44. Besides these four great factories, others should be established at suitable centers of iron and coal fields when our railways will be more developed.

  45. While the United States has undoubtedly sufficient reserves of magnesite to supply the domestic demands for many years, the mines are far from the centers of consumption and it is expensive to transport the material.

  46. Imports came mainly from Spain and Portugal to consuming centers on the Atlantic seaboard.

  47. This increased use is favoring the development of local centers of smelting, which will make available other large reserves of iron ore.

  48. The price equilibrium between consuming centers affords a reasonably uniform basis against which to measure availability of ores.

  49. Looking forward to the future, it is clear that there will be considerable shifts in the centers of principal production of petroleum in the directions indicated by the reserve figures.

  50. It is only where ores are fortunately located with reference to consuming centers that the low-grade deposits can be used.

  51. The whole city centers around an extraordinarily large central plaza on one side of which is the ancient cathedral with its tiers of bells in the bell tower still lashed to the massive beams by rawhide thongs.

  52. But all about were the ruins of elaborate ancient gold workings that indicated that this was one of the centers from which the Incas drew their enormous golden treasure.

  53. Thousands of Americans living abroad have joined the Red Cross centers of the cities in which they were living and are giving much of their time and money to strengthening the work.

  54. No sooner was the rumor of war given than did the National Red Cross of America start a campaign for the purpose of sending Red Cross nurses and supplies to all great centers of Europe.

  55. She said that I might help her by forming two local centers in Chicago for the signing of many petitions pledging ourselves for the peace idea platform.

  56. Many of the maids in private homes are too impatient to stay and do their routine work, and they have also gone to the Red Cross centers without pay.

  57. He had centered all his energy upon the desire to save Sandy, and his nerve centers were still tense to that last conscious demand.

  58. The hunter lay still beneath him at last, his nerve centers shattered by some blow that had short-circuited them, and Rainey got wearily to his feet.

  59. One of the early educational centers in Linn county was the private school established in 1850 in the Greene Bros.

  60. They have borne nobly their share of the burdens incident to the establishment of new centers of civilization and of progress.

  61. They have helped and are helping to make the county and the city centers of growth and prosperity.

  62. It was also decided to send lecturers through Ohio cities to visit negro centers for the purpose of instilling within the race a desire for better living conditions.

  63. The several trunk line railroads directly connecting this section with the northern industrial centers made the transportation of this labor an easy matter.

  64. It has, therefore, come to be recognized in certain industrial centers in the South that money expended for this purpose is a good investment.

  65. The war in Europe has called home foreigners out of the industrial centers of the North and West.

  66. Hartford was one of the industrial centers to which large numbers of the migrating negroes went.

  67. The solution of this problem was rendered a little more difficult for the reason that here, as in many other centers in the North, the newcomers were not welcomed by their own race.

  68. Laborers were sought in fields most accessible to the centers of industry, but individual choice as displayed in the extent of voluntary migration carried them everywhere.

  69. Pittsburgh was one of the centers to which the greatest number of negroes went.

  70. The numerous little industrial centers dotting the State fed from the supply furnished by the railroads.

  71. The only interest in his life outside of his adored daughter, centers in the occasional letters that reach him from America.

  72. Around the slender, stately column of the white throat a necklace of pansies formed of dark, purple amethysts with diamond centers radiating fire--a birthday gift from her father.

  73. Moral contagion and physical contagion, the ulcer thus increasing through the remedy, centers of repression becoming centers of corruption.

  74. In this way new centers of agriculture and industry are formed, which likewise become new centers of population.

  75. There are no newspapers in the cafés; no local centers of information, of resolution, of action.


  76. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "centers" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.