Sentence examples for claimed center from inspiring English sources

In movement class, he claimed center stage, striking attitudes that his instructors found unusual, original.

The Canadiens claimed center Jeff Halpern, 36, off waivers from the Rangers.

Ms. Rosenkranz was so pleased when 75 Livingston Street claimed center stage recently that she dug out her uncle's files, left to her by her mother, Rose Simberg Bernstein, who died in 1987.

Further issues may relate to data quality: a comparison of OPTN/SRTR with A2ALL supported this hypothesis and claimed center-specific data monitoring to substantially improve the data [ 25].

A powerful theme that runs throughout the quartet, empathy here claims center stage.

Death is always waiting in the wings -- that is, when it's not claiming center stage.

Louvi, A. & Grove, E. A. Cilia in the CNS: the quiet organelle claims center stage.

Mr. Stickler has been faulted for letting Mr. Murray claim center stage in news conferences and act as a go-between with the trapped miners' families.

It doesn't take us long to realize that her will to dramatize, to claim center stage as a writer and as a performer, is, to a great extent, about upstaging the first performer in the family: her mother.

But though Allen may be the film's protagonist, in his own eyes and those of his peers he is more sidekick than hero: the boy who watches and wonders while more reckless and charismatic friends claim center stage.

The making of the "deep south" or "cotton kingdom" by enslaved black workers and their white masters now claims center stage in larger narratives of western expansion.