Usage examples (14)

• The mother country, its agents, its superior legal culture—these acted centripetally, before Independence.
• All I ask of you is to act centripetally in entering the debate which is of vital concern to South Africa and all its people.
• If the reefrat can accelerate its own body without reaction, perhaps it can also accelerate gas molecules centripetally, also without reaction.
• Attractive women of nineteen and of twenty-nine are alike in their breezy confidence; on the contrary, the exigent womb of the twenties does not pull the outside world...