How to Use fulcrum in a Sentence

fulcrum

noun
  • Your core is the fulcrum and your arms and legs are the levers.
    — Jenny McCoy, SELF, 30 Oct. 2018
  • This type uses the lever and fulcrum method (and strength) to pop the cork.
    — Maya Polton, Better Homes & Gardens, 10 Jan. 2023
  • This type uses the lever and fulcrum method (and strength) to pop the cork.
    — Maya Polton, Better Homes & Gardens, 10 Jan. 2023
  • Both were confused as to why the play lives as a fulcrum of drama.
    — Chris Bumbaca, USA TODAY, 19 Jan. 2022
  • The trap is just a pipe resting on a cheap pen that acts as the fulcrum of a see-saw.
    — Andrew Moseman, Popular Mechanics, 7 Apr. 2017
  • Grip the bottle's neck with your other hand to act as a fulcrum.
    — Wired Staff, WIRED, 24 Mar. 2008
  • Putting him as the fulcrum of the offense could be courting chaos.
    — Ira Winderman, sun-sentinel.com, 4 Sep. 2019
  • Paul’s health now clearly stands as the fulcrum for this series.
    — Ben Golliver, SI.com, 25 May 2018
  • What if the fulcrum were lifted and set back down just a few degrees to the left?
    — Jessica Ferri, Los Angeles Times, 20 Mar. 2023
  • Then, take the second bobby pin and bend it at the fulcrum to make one long, straight piece.
    — Joseph Truini, Popular Mechanics, 17 Jan. 2023
  • Homan’s summer is, in other words, a fulcrum.
    — Benjamin Wallace-Wells, New Yorker, 5 Aug. 2025
  • The duo served as the fulcrum of a historic season on the Plains.
    — Tom Green | [email protected], al, 6 Apr. 2022
  • As with so many things, millennials like me seem to be the fulcrum here.
    — Zach Wichter, USA Today, 4 Feb. 2026
  • The fulcrum is our life on earth, beginning, ending in a bed.
    — Hannah Aizenman, The New Yorker, 17 Dec. 2019
  • That mid-point is called the fulcrum and that’s your center of gravity.
    — Ginni Saraswati, Forbes, 17 Mar. 2023
  • The effect is to make the quake the fulcrum on which their lives, and the life of the city itself, turned.
    — David James, Anchorage Daily News, 7 June 2020
  • But Roberts is no longer the fulcrum of the court, and that means everything.
    — Matt Ford, The New Republic, 28 July 2021
  • Kelce, the fulcrum of Philly’s fantastic front five, seems to think so.
    — Andy Benoit, SI.com, 24 Jan. 2018
  • There’s a tipping point, and these two tablets are on either side of the browser fulcrum.
    — Ewan Spence, Forbes.com, 25 Aug. 2025
  • This season, that group went from being a pleasant surprise to the fulcrum of the team.
    — Chris Bieri, Anchorage Daily News, 29 May 2023
  • But in Chicago, Buzelis is the fulcrum that every step hinges around.
    — Julia Poe, Chicago Tribune, 13 Feb. 2026
  • This left Jean-Michel without the mentor who had been a fulcrum for him.
    — Owen Gleiberman, Variety, 9 June 2026
  • The fulcrum of this Series, and of Springer's play, was Game 2.
    — Thomas Boswell, Alaska Dispatch News, 2 Nov. 2017
  • In the example of the bicep curl, the forearm is the lever, with the hand as the load and the elbow as the fulcrum.
    — Discover Magazine, 4 Aug. 2011
  • Enter Aldridge, who had been promised a steadier role in the offense but found himself at the fulcrum.
    — Rob Mahoney, SI.com, 10 Apr. 2018
  • So has Zico, the fulcrum of Brazil’s beloved 1982 side.
    — Jack Lang, New York Times, 25 June 2026
  • At this point, it must be noted that Donal Logue’s performance is the fulcrum of the show.
    — Emily Palmer Heller, Vulture, 20 Apr. 2021
  • Branch played the slot corner role in Tuscaloosa as the fulcrum of Nick Saban’s defense.
    — Mark Heim | [email protected], al, 28 Apr. 2023
  • The Aces point guard Chelsea Gray, with her audacious passing, was the fulcrum of it all.
    — Louisa Thomas, The New Yorker, 15 Oct. 2023
  • Hitler used hatred of Jews as a fulcrum around which to gain full and absolute control of his countrymen.
    — Dp Opinion, Denver Post, 10 Oct. 2025

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