How to Use centerfold in a Sentence

centerfold

noun
  • Rau, dressed in a white thong bikini, is instead the centerfold of that issue.
    — Elizabeth Wellington, Philly.com, 23 Oct. 2017
  • Because one kangaroo seems to be gunning for the centerfold spot.
    — Kelli Bender, PEOPLE.com, 11 Jan. 2018
  • Later, Herz splices centerfolds and glamour shots into scenes of workaday grime.
    — Jeremy Lybarger, The New York Review of Books, 20 Apr. 2020
  • Hefner still chooses the centerfolds, cartoons, and party jokes.
    — Chris Jones, Esquire, 28 Sep. 2017
  • And of course, Karate Kid‘s Ralph Macchio in all his glory is the centerfold.
    — Sydney Bucksbaum, EW.com, 6 July 2019
  • While many women pose nude in the magazine, there is only one Playmate each month, who is featured as the centerfold.
    — Mary Bowerman, USA TODAY, 20 Oct. 2017
  • Another of the first sponsors was Coca-Cola, whose ad played a jingle when the centerfold was opened.
    — Chryselle D'silva Dias, The Christian Science Monitor, 1 Mar. 2021
  • Its dining area, bar (with centerfolds blown up and reproduced on the wall in plexiglass), gameroom and quiet nooks are clean, neat and natty.
    — Miami Herald Archives, Miami Herald, 14 Aug. 2025
  • This is most aptly depicted shortly into the first episode, when the Minx team tries to cast their inaugural male centerfold.
    — Katherine Singh, refinery29.com, 17 Mar. 2022
  • Nelson was part of a color centerfold portrait series that featured the faces of citizens of Alexandria.
    — Dawn Mitchell, Indianapolis Star, 15 Nov. 2019
  • This reexamination of Stratten’s life, rape, and murder casts a new light on the angel who was a centerfold.
    — Lili Anolik, Vanity Fair, 12 Jan. 2026
  • The centerfold featured a photo of his handiwork—a huge joint shaped like the Starship Enterprise.
    — Mark Yarm, New Yorker, 2 Mar. 2026
  • For the first time in its 64 year history, Playboy will feature a transgender woman as its centerfold.
    — Chris Morris, Fortune, 20 Oct. 2017
  • He was laid to rest beside Marilyn Monroe — the subject of Playboy‘s first centerfold.
    — Michele Corriston, PEOPLE.com, 3 Oct. 2017
  • One centerfold shows a woman on all fours, with a machine gun hanging at a diagonal between her legs, against a backdrop of camouflage netting.
    — Johanna Ekström, The New Yorker, 22 July 2021
  • Yeager was one of Hef’s go-to photographers, shooting eight centerfolds along with pictorial spreads.
    — Miami Herald Archives, Miami Herald, 14 Aug. 2025
  • In 2015, the magazine, also known for its in-depth articles along with the centerfolds, stripped the nudity from its pages.
    — Miami Herald, 14 Aug. 2025
  • Posing nude for Playboy’s famous centerfold is optional — and also must be auditioned for.
    — Miami Herald Archives, Miami Herald, 14 Aug. 2025
  • His sense of humor was always front and center, including famously posing nude for a centerfold in Hits magazine.
    — Roy Trakin, Variety, 3 Nov. 2021
  • Its sleek puffers and plaid overshirts are always ready for the centerfold, and its sweaters or cardigans in classic cable knits or ribbed patterns feel sophisticated without doing too much.
    — Maverick Li, Men's Health, 29 Dec. 2022
  • The show also has some objects that are not from your movies but were inspirations, like an issue of Hustler from 1977 with a scratch-and-sniff centerfold.
    — Michael Schulman, The New Yorker, 17 Sep. 2023
  • All right, tonight's episode, a slimy lawyer secretly tapes his client referring to hush money paid to a centerfold who had consensual relations with a rich dude who later became our president.
    — Fox News, 28 July 2018
  • Wonder Woman,’’ and became the first centerfold for Playgirl magazine, died Tuesday.
    — Lynn Elber, BostonGlobe.com, 17 Mar. 2020
  • By contrast, women have always been relegated to supporting roles in these ads, either wet-blanket wives or centerfolds urging you to host a website at GoDaddy.
    — Dave Holmes, Esquire, 5 Feb. 2018
  • Rau is the magazine’s November Playmate, and has a photo spread and centerfold in the magazine, all photographed by Derek Kettela.
    — Megan Friedman, Cosmopolitan, 19 Oct. 2017
  • In short, the website owner argued that there was no evidence that Boing Boing copied or displayed the centerfold photos or that any of its users downloaded the images instead of viewing them.
    — Ashley Cullins, The Hollywood Reporter, 14 Feb. 2018
  • History has conflated the Playboy Bunnies with the Playmates featured in the magazine’s centerfolds.
    — Kimberly Chrisman-Campbell, The Atlantic, 4 Oct. 2017
  • But perhaps no single scene this year celebrated them more enthusiastically than the casting call in the premiere episode of Minx, which showcased the organ in all its varied glory as dozens of men lined up for the shot at a centerfold.
    — Angie Han, The Hollywood Reporter, 22 Dec. 2022
  • Marilyn Monroe's nude image occupied the centerfold of the first ever edition of Playboy magazine in 1953.
    — Joseph Hincks, Time, 29 Sep. 2017
  • Down the corridor, a louche painting of the famous 1972 Burt Reynolds Cosmopolitan centerfold—mustachioed, nude, and reclining—hangs on the wall.
    — Zoey Goto, Architectural Digest, 6 May 2026

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