How to Use nerve center in a Sentence

nerve center

noun
  • Wall Street's undisputed status as the nerve center for the world of high finance.
  • Yet the nerve center of any Thai shopping mall is the food court.
    — Kris Yenbamroong, GQ, 10 Oct. 2017
  • In the middle is the pulp, which is the soft tissue that holds the nerve center.
    — Jill U. Adams, Washington Post, 28 Apr. 2018
  • The Smart Hub is Vivint's nerve center.
    — John R. Delaney, PC Magazine, 21 Apr. 2026
  • Part of the nerve center that helps the Dingell engine churn.
    — Nick Baumgardner, Detroit Free Press, 18 July 2019
  • Both were expected to be the nerve center in making calls and checks pre-snap.
    — Chris Solari, Detroit Free Press, 16 Aug. 2023
  • Facebook held fast and kept its news feed, which remains the platform's nerve center.
    — Tracey Lien, latimes.com, 23 Mar. 2018
  • Alex Anzalone should be the nerve center of the defense this fall.
    — Dave Birkett, Detroit Free Press, 27 Apr. 2021
  • The vertical control stick, the nerve center of the craft, was gripped between his knees.
    — Christoper Spregg, Popular Mechanics, 19 Aug. 2020
  • Smith has potential, as a middle linebacker, to emerge as the nerve center of a defense for a decade.
    — Albert Breer, SI.com, 21 Mar. 2018
  • Tokyo has been the nerve center of Japan’s movie industry for more than a century.
    — Mark Schilling, Variety, 11 Feb. 2022
  • Vaness Street can be the off-campus party nerve center hours before kickoff.
    — Tom Noie, The Indianapolis Star, 13 Sep. 2020
  • This central area—a combined lounge, restaurant and a bar—is the property’s nerve center.
    — Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 30 Mar. 2026
  • Sealing the spacecraft’s vault—its nerve center—is a plate forged from tantalum metal.
    — Nadia Drake, Scientific American, 14 Oct. 2024
  • Borland is the nerve center of the defense, comfortable running the show.
    — Doug Lesmerises, cleveland.com, 27 Aug. 2019
  • Within minutes the water was seeping into the plant’s nerve center.
    — Patrick McGeehan and Winnie Hu, New York Times, 30 Oct. 2017
  • The next layer is dentin, which is less dense than enamel and encases the pulp, the soft tissue that holds a tooth’s nerve center.
    — Washington Post, 24 Sep. 2020
  • The tour ends in Garza’s office, just off the kitchen, which is the nerve center of the VWO.
    — George Dohrmann, SI.com, 17 Jan. 2018
  • Seattle’s transition from slacker town to nerve center of Big Tech.
    — E. Tammy Kim, The New Yorker, 2 Aug. 2022
  • Weddle overcoming the ruptured tendon spared the Rams from having to shore up their on-field nerve center.
    — Tom Krasovic, San Diego Union-Tribune, 14 Feb. 2022
  • The company is perhaps best known for its Fit Finder quiz, a data nerve center.
    — Kate Dwyer, Fortune, 19 July 2019
  • Your ability to read the words on this webpage relies on your retina, which is essentially the nerve center of the eye.
    — Ben Panko, Smithsonian, 11 Jan. 2017
  • Over the years, the heart has gone from being the body’s nerve center, to the symbolic home of the soul, and to a biomechanical marvel.
    — Kate Golembiewski, Discover Magazine, 6 Feb. 2021
  • The department’s nerve center is a windowless room down the hall from Parros’s office.
    — Dave Caldwell, New York Times, 7 Apr. 2018
  • At a time when Europe clearly represents the sport’s nerve center, holding the event in Asia makes little sense.
    — Jon Wertheim, SI.com, 11 Apr. 2018
  • As the fire drew closer, the century-old Bentley Feed Store became a nerve center.
    — Jeffrey E. Stern, The Atlantic, 30 Aug. 2021
  • The command and control center—Seawolf's nerve center—has the feel of, and about as much headroom as, a basement recreation room.
    — Jim Wilson, Popular Mechanics, 1 Dec. 2020
  • The nerve center of the war in Yemen is the combat operations room in the basement of a Riyadh military base.
    — Dion Nissenbaum, WSJ, 18 Mar. 2018
  • If Hikvision supplied eyes on the streets of Hangzhou, Alibaba supplied the city’s nerve center.
    — Josh Chin, WSJ, 2 Sep. 2022
  • There’s music all weekend at the village green, overlooking the Ottauquechee, the nerve center for the festival.
    — Kevin Cullen, BostonGlobe.com, 12 May 2022

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