Example sentences for: epicenter

How can you use “epicenter” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • He felt himself simultaneously to be the epicenter of the universe--"I am the left foot of God on earth"--and an abject, persecuted petitioner.

  • An aftershock is defined as a quake that occurs on or near the original fault (usually within 10 miles of the epicenter) and before the region's seismic activity has returned to normal.

  • Vedado is the city’s principal commercial and residential zone — the epicenter of middle-class Havana — with parks, monuments, hotels, restaurants, theaters, and the University of Havana.

  • Northeast of Palma is the attractive town of Binissalem, the epicenter of Mallorca’s wine industry (which earned a Denominación de Origen — a quality designation similar to the French Apellation d’Origine — in 1991).

  • This time the epicenter was Paris, and the cause Napoleon.


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