Noun : The sun is the center of the solar system. ,the center of a problem. ,His family is the center of his life. ,a shipping center. ,a youth center; The company has a complete recreation center in the basement. ,a flood-relief center; a crisis center. ,chocolate candies with fruit centers. ,a garden center; a nutrition center. ,Unfortunately, his homeland has always lacked a responsible Center. ,the vasomotor center.    From Dictionary.com. 

Verb (used with object) : She centered the clock on the mantelpiece. ,He centered his novel on the Civil War. ,A small brass star centered the tabletop. ,to center the lens of a telescope; to center the work on a lathe.    From Dictionary.com. 

Verb (used without object) : The interest of the book centers specifically on the character of the eccentric hero. Political power in the town centers in the position of mayor. ,Shops and municipal buildings center around the city square.    From Dictionary.com. 

Discussions on the medium term centred around identifying dry land and shelter.    From Wordnik.com.  [ANC Daily News Briefing] Reference

Vance has designed another weird and whacky society for trouble and strife to happen in, again centred around a young male protagonist.    From Wordnik.com.  [Science Fiction, Fantasy, Horror: Araminta Station - Jack Vance] Reference

Another big call centred on the choice of D'Arcy ahead of Wallace (who has the consolation of covering the out-half berth) at first centre.    From Wordnik.com.  [IrishExaminer.com] Reference

CUSTOMER SERVICE SERIES Our approach to the customer service series is to encourage individuals, teams and organisations to get "centred" on their customers experience.    From Wordnik.com.  [Recently Uploaded Slideshows] Reference

How much the girls were missing by being self-centred!.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Girl from Sunset Ranch Or, Alone in a Great City] Reference

The contention finally centred on the pooling provision.    From Wordnik.com.  [Fifty Years of Public Service] Reference

Up to yesterday public attention centred on latter event.    From Wordnik.com.  [Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 147, August 5th, 1914] Reference

Family discussions had centred about that field for weeks.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Wind Before the Dawn] Reference

She is growing too fast and she is morbid and self-centred.    From Wordnik.com.  [Judy of York Hill] Reference

Now the whole soul of Chung was centred upon his only son Keng.    From Wordnik.com.  [Chinese Folk-Lore Tales] Reference

All the pre-match interest at Goodison Park had centred on strikers.    From Wordnik.com.  [Dimitar Berbatov rises to the occasion of Wayne Rooney's absence] Reference

I thought all the force was centred here in this State and on the Canada line.    From Wordnik.com.  [Flamsted quarries] Reference

Its solution was centred for one and all in their work among the granite quarries of.    From Wordnik.com.  [Flamsted quarries] Reference

Hugh Noland's system and the place where new troubles centred and aggravated old ones.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Wind Before the Dawn] Reference

M. Godefroy was finally ushered into the room of the man in whom were centred all his hopes.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Lost Child 1894] Reference

"You brought it back to me when you said that all your interests were centred in your husband.".    From Wordnik.com.  [When the Birds Begin to Sing] Reference

He took a side-plate from the cupboard and centred the sandwich upon it with a surgeon's precision.    From Wordnik.com.  [Tomatoes] Reference

Monbiot also fails to consider the disastrous effects that animal-centred diets have on human health.    From Wordnik.com.  [Adopting a vegan diet will improve our health – and the planet's] Reference

John's attention centred about the new house and each day found him more impatient to see it finished.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Wind Before the Dawn] Reference

Most of the online debate so far has centred on the meaning of the varied dreamworlds Nolan has created.    From Wordnik.com.  [How Inception proves the art of baffling films does make sense] Reference

The life of Europe centred in one man; men tried to fill their lungs with the air which he had breathed.    From Wordnik.com.  [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference

Like any self-centred American adolescent, but unlike the robotic Chinese, Dre's in touch with his feelings.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Karate Kid betrays America's fear of China] Reference

The Westphalian group of high-grade steel industries centred at Essen is about two hundred miles from Nancy.    From Wordnik.com.  [Night Bombing with the Bedouins] Reference

Great efforts are being centred upon the evolution of more formidable missiles to be launched from the clouds.    From Wordnik.com.  [Aeroplanes and Dirigibles of War] Reference

He was so self-centred, so pompous, so utterly selfish, that he never thought how he might wrong other people.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Girl from Sunset Ranch Or, Alone in a Great City] Reference

She had hovered about the field, she had centred her faculties on the considerations of harvesting, and prices.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Wind Before the Dawn] Reference

Jacob's attachment to Benjamin, the son in whom all the thoughts, hopes, and desires of his old age are centred.    From Wordnik.com.  [Ontario Teachers' Manuals: Literature] Reference

He realized, for the first time, perhaps, in his self-centred life, that he was but a unit among suffering millions.    From Wordnik.com.  [Flamsted quarries] Reference

The size of it was for long plunged in obscurity, and the wildest ideas centred round the extent of this northern sea.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Book of Discovery The History of the World's Exploration, From the Earliest Times to the Finding of the South Pole] Reference

Judith's thoughts were centred on Catherine and the full dishonour of what she was contemplating did not occur to her.    From Wordnik.com.  [Judy of York Hill] Reference

Discussions centred on sending an MCC representative team to Zimbabwe and to conduct further investigations while there.    From Wordnik.com.  [Blow to Zimbabwe's cricket future as MCC cancels fact-finding mission] Reference

The Viceroy, "whose whole being was centred in his devotion to his only son, received the tidings with outward stoicism.".    From Wordnik.com.  [A Book of Discovery The History of the World's Exploration, From the Earliest Times to the Finding of the South Pole] Reference

These flowers indicate that your hope is centred on one desire, and assure you of the certainty of obtaining your wish.    From Wordnik.com.  [Telling Fortunes By Tea Leaves] Reference

Here Elizabeth meditated upon the fact that because the neighbourhood sentiment and discussion centred around their home, she and.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Wind Before the Dawn] Reference

England's bid is centred around the benefits of bringing the tournament to a country with strong infrastructure and stadiums already built.    From Wordnik.com.  [England bid unbeatable, Clegg tells Fifa] Reference

All my powers were centred on a single thought, and the more I turned it over in my head, the less clearly could I distinguish its meaning.    From Wordnik.com.  [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference

In these circumstances reasonable to suppose attention of House would be centred on these contingencies, its demeanour attuned accordingly.    From Wordnik.com.  [Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 147, August 5th, 1914] Reference