Use center in a sentence
Sentences ending with center
- All around us was a ring, where the sky and the water come together; yes, a monstrous big ring it was, and we right in the dead center of it--plumb in the center. [5]
- In this instance they set up the poor criminals at long range, like so many targets, and practiced on them--kept them hopping about and dodging bullets for half an hour before they managed to drive the center. [5]
- How was it that two guns were abandoned in the center? [2]
- But it was plain he was shot through, plumb center. [13]
- We were then on the summit, which is, after all, not a summit at all, but an uneven waste, sloping away from the Cone in the center. [4]
- He was found dead yesterday all chewed by coyotes, en' he'd been shot plumb center. [13]
- That's our center. [2]
Sentences containing center two or more times
- If they attack our center we, having the center battery on this high ground, shall withdraw the left flank under its cover, and retreat to the dip by echelons. [2]
- Thus, this center of population at the head of Mississippi navigation, will then begin a rivalry as to numbers, with that center of population at the foot of it--New Orleans. [5]
More example sentences with the word center in them
- The twenty-four sharpshooters with discharged muskets, standing in the center of the circle, ran back to their places as the companies passed by. [2]
- In the center, where Tushin's battery stood and from which Prince Andrew was surveying the position, was the easiest and most direct descent and ascent to the brook separating us from Schon Grabern. [2]
- Now and then we would hit one of these sunken logs a rattling bang, dead in the center, with a full head of steam, and it would stun the boat as if she had hit a continent. [5]
- The storm center was still beyond Surprise Valley. [13]
- After the charging was over, the reviewing party rode to the center of the field, and the troops galloped round them; and the Emperor distributed decorations. [4]
- Very well; the very source, the very center of hypnotism is Paris. [5]
- For an instant Venters felt himself whirl dizzily in the center of vast circles of sage. [13]
- It extends straight up through the center of the continent like the middle board in a center-table. [5]
- Prince Bagration ordered two battalions from the center to be sent to reinforce the right flank. [2]
- In the center Tushin's forgotten battery, which had managed to set fire to the Schon Grabern village, delayed the French advance. [2]
- Every face was turned toward the center of attraction. [5]
- Worth's is the trading center of the region, has a post office and a saw-mill and a big country store; and the dwelling of the proprietor is not unlike a roomy New England country house. [4]
- He swooped down to within thirty or forty feet of the lake, and stopped right over the center, and sung out: "Leggo, and drop! [5]
- She turned again to the center of the lake. [4]
- When we went to call on our American Consul General today I noticed that all possible games for parlor amusement seemed to be represented on his center tables. [5]
- These blocks were to be set on end in a platter, in the center of dinner- tables, to cool the tropical air; and also to be ornamental, for the flowers and things imprisoned in them could be seen as through plate glass. [5]
- We wanted something thoroughly and uncompromisingly foreign--foreign from top to bottom--foreign from center to circumference--foreign inside and outside and all around--nothing anywhere about it to dilute its foreignness --nothing to remind us of any other people or any other land under the sun. [5]
- The matter was this: He happened to be up very early--at dawn, in fact; and he crossed the hall, which divided his cottage through the center, and entered a room to get something there. [5]
- Others would succeed them rapidly, coming up the center while their predecessors filed down the sides; so that the whole field was a moving mass of splendid color and glancing steel. [4]
- The canyon narrowed; the walls lifted their rugged rims higher; and the sun shone down hot from the center of the blue stream of sky above. [13]
- The keeper opens the two center partitions to examine the brood cells. [2]
- In the center, the soft red glow of the candles, the gleaming silver, the shining cloth, the Church on one side--and what on the other? [9]
- His home became the social center of the capital, and his brilliant brother its chief ornament. [5]
- We move up the river--always through enchanting scenery, there being no other kind on the Upper Mississippi--and pass Moline, a center of vast manufacturing industries; and Clinton and Lyons, great lumber centers; and presently reach Dubuque, which is situated in a rich mineral region. [5]
- The church of the patron saint was the great center of attraction. [4]
- The curve of the great stone bridge had caught the sunrise, and through the magnificent arch burst a glorious stream of gold that shone with a long slant down into the center of Surprise Valley. [13]
- In the center the French had not got beyond Borodino, and on their left flank Uvarov's cavalry had put the French to flight. [2]
- The cause of the confusion was that while the Austrian cavalry was moving toward our left flank, the higher command found that our center was too far separated from our right flank and the cavalry were all ordered to turn back to the right. [2]
- The retirement of the center to the other side of the dip in the ground at the rear was hurried and noisy, but the different companies did not get mixed. [2]
- It lies in the center of this platter, in a bordering bed of grease-soaked potatoes; it is the size, shape, and thickness of a man's hand with the thumb and fingers cut off. [5]
- Benares is thus the center of the earth. [5]
- One journey from Syracuse through the center of the island revealed more wretchedness than Irving supposed existed in the world. [4]
- I took my stand in the center of the tipsy boat; and Luke shoved off, and slowly paddled towards some lily-pads, while I began casting, unlimbering my tools, as it were. [4]
- Only a wide space down the center had been kept free. [5]
- Blessed is that sort which comes to a head, and so remains, like a few people I know; growing more solid and satisfactory and tender at the same time, and whiter at the center, and crisp in their maturity. [4]
- Boone, the county seat of Watauga County, was our destination, and, ever since morning, the guideboards and the trend of the roads had notified us that everything in this region tends towards Boone as a center of interest. [4]
- Bunches of scattered sage covered the center of the canyon, and among these Venters threaded his way with the step of an Indian. [13]
- Meantime the party remained stationary in the center to watch his movements. [5]
- Scarcely had they reached the center of the lake, when they saw the bear arrive at its borders. [5]
- It is a rambling pile of old buildings, in the center of the town, with a courtyard in the middle, and in it a deep well, boring down I know not how far into the rock, and always full of cold sweet water. [4]
- She has two railways, and is the commercial center of a broad and prosperous region. [5]
- The customary half-dozen railways center in Hannibal now, and there is a new depot which cost a hundred thousand dollars. [5]
- In practical matters Pierre unexpectedly felt within himself a center of gravity he had previously lacked. [2]
- It hit the pier in the center and went all to smash and scatteration like a box of matches struck by lightning. [5]
- How can a person be attached to a house that has no center of attraction, no soul in it, in the visible form of a glowing fire, and a warm chimney, like the heart in the body? [4]
- About nightfall we passed the large and flourishing town of Alton, Illinois; and before daylight next morning the town of Louisiana, Missouri, a sleepy village in my day, but a brisk railway center now; however, all the towns out there are railway centers now. [5]
- It lays right on top of a knoll in the dead center of the buryin' ground; and you can see Millport from there, and Tracy's, and Hopper Mount, and a raft o' farms, and so on. [5]
- With this center of untruthfulness, what must the life in the family be? [4]
- Toward the center of this circle the sage-brush grew smaller and farther apart He was about to sheer off to the right, where thickets and jumbles of fallen rock would afford him cover, when he ran right upon a broad cattle trail. [13]
- In the center of the whole design the mausoleum occupies a square of 186 feet, with the angles deeply truncated so also form an unequal octagon. [5]
- At the center of the table, Prince Vasili attracted everybody's attention. [2]
- In the center of the stony plot on the summit lie the remains of Mitchell. [4]
- In the center of the picture stands Galatea, and I know it now to be a good and true likeness. [10]
- Near the center of the island one catches glimpses, through the trees, of ten vast stone four-story buildings, each of which covers an acre of ground. [5]
- In the center of the inner circle, on a spacious platform six feet high, I've grouped a battery of thirteen gatling guns, and provided plenty of ammunition. [5]
- As the circle of sage lessened the steers began to bawl, and when it closed entirely there came a great upheaval in the center, and a terrible thumping of heads and clicking of horns. [13]
- When the State of Arkansas was chartered, she controlled 'to the center of the river'--a most unstable line. [5]
- His mind was occupied by the interests of the center that was conducting a gigantic war, and he was glad to be free for a while from the distraction caused by the thought of Kuragin. [2]
- Certainly he was never one to give himself airs, but to have the world's great literary center paying court to him, who only ten years before had been penniless and unknown, and who once had been a barefoot Tom Sawyer in Hannibal, was quite startling. [5]
- Some of the most important old men were the center of groups which even strangers approached respectfully to hear the voices of well-known men. [2]
- Cannon and musketry, mingling together, thundered on the right and in the center, while the capotes of Lannes' sharpshooters were already seen crossing the milldam and forming up within twice the range of a musket shot. [2]
- Each State would like to be the center of the consolidated system, and thus it happens that every practical step toward political unity meets a host of opponents at once. [4]
- We dismounted, and left our thanks once more for my lord, and then approached a crowd assembled in the center of the square, to see what might be the object of interest. [5]
- The Almighty never laid out a cleaner piece of level prairie for a city; and it's the natural center of all that region of hemp and tobacco. [5]
- The home of Jane Withersteen stood in a circle of cottonwoods, and was a flat, long, red-stone structure with a covered court in the center through which flowed a lively stream of amber-colored water. [13]
- In a word, it was one of those excitements which bring multitudes of people to a common center with a rush, and whose needs must be supplied, and at once. [5]
- If your seat is near the center of a row and you enter late you must work your way along a rank of about twenty-five ladies and gentlemen to get to it. [5]
- As we stepped into the vast enclosed court of the castle I got a shock; for the first thing I saw was the stake, standing in the center, and near it the piled fagots and a monk. [5]
- In the front, in the very center, leaning back against the orchestra rail, stood Dolokhov in a Persian dress, his curly hair brushed up into a huge shock. [2]
- The oak forest in the center was a plumed and tufted oval of gold. [13]
- His stand was in the center of the widest part of the valley; and it took all that space to hold his crowds. [5]
- The two cenotaphs in the center of the exquisite enclosure have no carving except the plain Kalamdan or oblong pen-box on the tomb of Emperor Shah Jehan. [5]
- The prisoners were in the center of the column. [5]
- These mansions stand in the center of large grounds, and rise, garlanded with roses, out of the midst of swelling masses of shining green foliage and many- colored blossoms. [5]
- But I find, in dissecting a pea-blossom, that hidden in the center of it is a perfect miniature pea-pod, with the peas all in it,--as perfect a pea-pod as it will ever be, only it is as tiny as a chatelaine ornament. [4]
- He imagined only important possibilities: "If the enemy attacks the right flank," he said to himself, "the Kiev grenadiers and the Podolsk chasseurs must hold their position till reserves from the center come up. [2]
- I was even impatient for to-morrow to come, I so wanted to gather in that great triumph and be the center of all the nation's wonder and reverence. [5]
- The news of, his success had preceded him, and while he waited for the train, he was the center of a group of eager questioners, who asked him a hundred things about the mine, and magnified his good fortune. [5]
- Dolokhov lowered his head to the snow, greedily bit at it, again raised his head, adjusted himself, drew in his legs and sat up, seeking a firm center of gravity. [2]
- Pierre felt that he was the center of it all, and this both pleased and embarrassed him. [2]
- And all these groups, while talking among themselves, tried to keep near the commander in chief (whose bench formed the center of the gathering) and to speak so that he might overhear them. [2]
- His idea was, first, to concentrate all the artillery in the center, and secondly, to withdraw the cavalry to the other side of the dip. [2]
- If you should fill a gasometer half way up with solid granite masonry, then drive a wide and deep well down through the center of this mass of masonry, you would have the idea of a Tower of Silence. [5]
- It is thirty-six feet in diameter, hollowed out to the depth of ten feet, four feet thick at the center, and two feet nine inches at the edges, and is estimated to weigh two hundred tons. [4]
- The Russians might fall on his left wing, might break through his center, he himself might be killed by a stray cannon ball. [2]
- He fancied that everybody attached to himself an exaggerated importance, from the fact of being at the national capital, the center of political influence, the fountain of patronage, preferment, jobs and opportunities. [5]
- Then he faced down the lane and strode toward the center of the village. [13]
- We rode in double file, Joan and her brothers in the center of the column, with Jean de Metz at the head of it and the Sieur Bertrand at its extreme rear. [5]
- It brings in cheerfulness, and a family center, and, besides, it is artistic. [4]
- This is the center of the mica mining, and of considerable excitement about minerals. [4]
- She was the center of attraction for the envy of all the ladies. [5]
- It is the center of a rich field of lake and mountain scenery; from Rotorua as a base the pleasure-seeker makes excursions. [5]
- The passageways for carriages are through the side arches; and thus the "sidewalk" runs into the center of the street, and foot-passers must twice cross the carriage-drive in going through the gate. [4]
- Then our reward came: the center of the universe turned the corner and began to mend. [5]
- Jupiter and Mars, Caesar's favorites, outdid the other planets in size and brightness; and in the center of this picture of the sky, which slowly revolved round it, stars were set to form the letters of Caracalla's names, Bassianus and Antoninus. [10]
- Adjoining the church, but lower, is a long, low building with three rooms, at once house and stable, the stable in the center, though all of them have hay in the lofts. [4]
- To-morrow we shall be close to the center of the globe--the 180th degree of west longitude and 180th degree of east longitude. [5]
- It came to be a great burden, as to time and trouble, but of course it was at the same time compensatingly agreeable to be so celebrated and such a center of homage. [5]
- We should have attacked Napoleon in the center or on the right, and the engagement would have taken place on the twenty-fifth, in the position we intended and had fortified. [2]
- When one glances at the map the members of the stupendous island wilderness of the Pacific seem to crowd upon each other; but no, there is no crowding, even in the center of a group; and between groups there are lonely wide deserts of sea. [5]
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