centrifugal forcein a sentence
- They'd stick their heads into her classroom and see the students playing tag and throwing erasers while Mom was up front, spinning like a top and letting pieces of chalk fly from her hands to demonstrate centrifugal force.† (source)
- I feel the centrifugal force pulling me toward the water and dig my hands and feet into the sand, trying to get some purchase on the unstable ground.† (source)
- When the merry-go-round went fast, he could not hold onto any of the bars, and centrifugal force hurled him off.† (source)
- "The Centrifugal Force of Arguments": The farther you move from the core of the problem, the faster the situation spins out of control.† (source)
- Our entrance might have looked dramatic if the centrifugal force hadn't thrown Kayla, Austin, and me from the chariot.† (source)
- Air cooled by compressed ammonia gas quickly froze them, a computerized sorter divided them into six-pound batches, and a device that spun like an out-of-control lazy Susan used centrifugal force to align the french fries so that they all pointed in the same direction.† (source)
- Another flip, and the centrifugal force whips me back into the cockpit, where I smash into the door.† (source)
- Instead of flinging me out, though, the centrifugal force—I had taken science in ninth grade—somehow held me in.† (source)
- She thought it would feel different, more like the ride at the amusement park that pins you against the wall with centrifugal force.† (source)
- Gravity and centrifugal force made it difficult for Alessandro to look at them, as if he were on the ride, and not they.† (source)
- That final descent and series of loops takes sixty seconds, but the 10 G centrifugal force that results from the 223-mile-per-hour loops is what kills you.† (source)
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- When most people think of centrifugal force, physicists think of centripetal force.
- Centrifugal force sent the shields flying off the railings like metal Frisbees.† (source)
- Those 10 Gs create enough centrifugal force on the body so that the blood rushes down instead of up to the brain, which results in something called cerebral hypoxia, and this is what kills you.† (source)
- In his dream, however, he flew over Venice in a wide circle, and was pressed down by the centrifugal force of the turn.† (source)
- At that distance they accordingly stood, fixed there by the centrifugal force of the repugnance which the mystic symbol inspired.† (source)
- § 2 /Points of Difference/—These exchanges and coalescences, however, though they invigorate each language with the blood of the other and are often very striking in detail, are neither numerous enough nor general enough to counteract the centrifugal force which pulls them apart.† (source)
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