How do you use Centaur in a sentence? See 10+ example sentences showing how this word appears in different contexts, including synonyms like centaurus or constellation, plus the exact meaning.
Centaur meaning
- A mythical beast having a horse's body with a man's head and torso in place of the head and neck of the horse.
- One of a number of icy planetoids that orbit the Sun between Jupiter and Neptune.
- A chess-playing team comprising a human player and a computer who work together.
Synonyms of Centaur
Using Centaur
- The main meaning on this page is: A mythical beast having a horse's body with a man's head and torso in place of the head and neck of the horse. | One of a number of icy planetoids that orbit the Sun between Jupiter and Neptune. | A chess-playing team comprising a human player and a computer who work together.
- Useful related words include: mythical monster, mythical creature, centaurus, constellation.
- In the example corpus, centaur often appears in combinations such as: the centaur, vulcan centaur, centaur rocket.
Context around Centaur
- Average sentence length in these examples: 27.9 words
- Position in the sentence: 4 start, 9 middle, 7 end
- Sentence types: 20 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Centaur
- In this selection, "centaur" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 27.9 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, vulcan, atlas, bemidji, rocket, rolls and 29p stand out and add context to how "centaur" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include all a centaur and an atlas centaur rocket. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "centaur" sits close to words such as agonizing, allocates and alves, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with centaur
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
The new rulebook will also introduce six new ancestries to including the centaur and minotaur. (15 words)
This alone invalidates the entire concept, as do questionable choices (like turning Superman into a centaur, because why?). (18 words)
Chariklo is not just any centaur; it was also to have two thin rings of icy particles around it. (19 words)
In a typical passage in the Intellectual Powers he asserts that when he has a conception of a centaur, the thing he conceives is an animal, and no idea is an animal; therefore, the thing he conceives is not an idea, but a centaur. (44 words)
But Peregrine may have followed their footsteps too well as the mission too will fail to soft-land on the Moon due to a propellant leak that sprung shortly after the United Launch Alliance’s Vulcan Centaur rocket’s upper stage deployed Peregrine. (43 words)
Below, you can see a rerun of the broadcast, beginning with the Vulcan Centaur rising into the sky for the first time, with the Peregrine lunar lander safely concealed in the fairing at the top of the rocket. (38 words)
Example sentences (20)
In a typical passage in the Intellectual Powers he asserts that when he has a conception of a centaur, the thing he conceives is an animal, and no idea is an animal; therefore, the thing he conceives is not an idea, but a centaur.
Amazon expects to launch the first two prototypes for the constellation in “early May” on the inaugural flight of United Launch Alliance’s (ULA) Vulcan Centaur rocket.
Meaning that traditionally, the Krewe of Gemini rolls the Saturday before Fat Tuesday, the date of which is determined by the Easter holiday and the Krewe of Centaur rolls the Saturday prior.
The companies held the briefing to mark the 60th anniversary of the first use of the RL10 on an Atlas-Centaur rocket.
The new rulebook will also introduce six new ancestries to including the centaur and minotaur.
A team of scientists recently used Webb’s (Near-Infrared Spectrograph) instrument to obtain data on Centaur 29P/Schwassmann-Wachmann 1 (29P for short), an object that is known for its highly active and quasi-periodic outbursts.
Below, you can see a rerun of the broadcast, beginning with the Vulcan Centaur rising into the sky for the first time, with the Peregrine lunar lander safely concealed in the fairing at the top of the rocket.
But Peregrine may have followed their footsteps too well as the mission too will fail to soft-land on the Moon due to a propellant leak that sprung shortly after the United Launch Alliance’s Vulcan Centaur rocket’s upper stage deployed Peregrine.
Chariklo is not just any centaur; it was also to have two thin rings of icy particles around it.
For example, the first launch of United Launch Alliance’s Vulcan Centaur faced months of delays even after it performed a static-fire test on the pad in June 2023.
The costumes are especially fun, with minotaurs, Mr and Mrs Beaver, unicorns, squirrels, griffyns and hardest of all, a centaur.
The Vulcan Centaur’s first stage is equipped with two BE-4 engines, each producing 550,000 pounds of thrust, using a combination of liquified natural gas and liquid oxygen as propellants.
United Launch Alliance is depending on the Vulcan Centaur rocket to fill the gap that will be left by the impending retirement of its Atlas V rocket.
Bemidji Centaur Derek Young dives back to first after an attempted pickoff in Wednesday’s game against the Bemidji Blue Ox amateur team at Des Sagedahl Field.
Centaur Media Plc (LON:CAU) insider Swagatam Mukerji purchased 28,368 shares of the firm’s stock in a transaction dated Friday, March 27th.
Their father died before Ian was born (mum is now dating the centaur cop), but he left the brothers an odd gift to open on Ian’s 16th birthday: a spell to bring him back for a day.
This alone invalidates the entire concept, as do questionable choices (like turning Superman into a centaur, because why?).
However, it is deliberately suppressed that he is housed in Hotel Centaur which is a posh hotel in Srinagar and she met him at the hotel.
Opening at Centaur Theatre on Tuesday, it centres on the astonishing story of American murderer and con man Christian Gerhartsreiter.
Plenty of nerds have gotten into arguments over whether a centaur or a minotaur would win in a fight.
Common combinations with centaur
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- the centaur 20×
- vulcan centaur 8×
- centaur rocket 4×
- centaur and 4×
- centaur upper 4×
- of centaur 3×
- centaur the 3×
- centaur is 3×
- centaur stage 3×
- at centaur 2×