How do you use Centrist in a sentence? See 10+ example sentences showing how this word appears in different contexts, including synonyms like center or moderate, plus the exact meaning.
Centrist meaning
Of, pertaining to, or advocating centrism.
Using Centrist
- The main meaning on this page is: Of, pertaining to, or advocating centrism.
- Useful related words include: middle-of-the-road, center, moderate, moderationist.
- In the example corpus, centrist often appears in combinations such as: the centrist, centrist party, centrist and.
Context around Centrist
- Average sentence length in these examples: 27.2 words
- Position in the sentence: 6 start, 9 middle, 5 end
- Sentence types: 20 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Centrist
- In this selection, "centrist" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 27.2 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, new, labels, bend, government, anti and christian stand out and add context to how "centrist" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include 2020 the centrist christian democrats and a more centrist contender buenos. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "centrist" sits close to words such as abba, abdomen and anomaly, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with centrist
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
In the process, a centrist social-democratic coalition would govern. (10 words)
Golden, a centrist Democrat, has hung onto the seat since taking it from then-Rep. (15 words)
Edmonton businessman Rick Peterson's organization Centre Ice Canadians is looking to form a new centrist party. (17 words)
Joe Manchin loves to keep his political options open — and now, as the West Virginia centrist flirts with a third-party campaign for president, his Democratic colleagues are taking him seriously enough to try to talk him out of it. (40 words)
Casting himself as a centrist in an era where partisan politics has become something of a bloodsport, his sunny optimism, complete with jokes and frequent pauses to smile, contrasted strongly with aggressive jeering from the ranks of Republican lawmakers. (39 words)
French President Emmanuel Macron reportedly railed against the limit on presidential terms preventing him from running for re-election in 2027 as “disastrous bullshit” as his centrist globalist bloc continues to struggle to find a successor to his reign. (39 words)
Example sentences (20)
In total, seven parties and groups scored high enough to enter parliament, including the centrist, anti-corruption OLaNO coalition that won the previous elections in 2020, the centrist Christian Democrats, and the rightwing SaS.
If many centrist voters dread the choice awaiting them at a coming election, imagine how centrist MPs feel about it.
A seemingly fearsome Brexiteer, he and Steve Baker arrived in the Northern Ireland Office to uproar from nationalist and centrist politicians.
Casting himself as a centrist in an era where partisan politics has become something of a bloodsport, his sunny optimism, complete with jokes and frequent pauses to smile, contrasted strongly with aggressive jeering from the ranks of Republican lawmakers.
Centrist politician Tusk, who earned a clear path to power in October, will now at last have a chance to formalize his coalition.
Edmonton businessman Rick Peterson's organization Centre Ice Canadians is looking to form a new centrist party.
Florida pollster Albert Marko, of Mavarinas Management Group, says that is exactly what Democratic operatives want, because they know that DeSantis’ support among independents and centrist Dems will “obliterate” any Joe Biden repeat of 2020.
Former GOP strategist and Lincoln Project co-founder Rick Wilson argues that No Labels' "centrist do-gooder" positioning is deeply misleading.
French President Emmanuel Macron reportedly railed against the limit on presidential terms preventing him from running for re-election in 2027 as “disastrous bullshit” as his centrist globalist bloc continues to struggle to find a successor to his reign.
Golden, a centrist Democrat, has hung onto the seat since taking it from then-Rep.
He accused the president of collaboration with Netanyahu’s political opponents, including centrist lawmaker Yair Lapid, though he did not appear to provide any evidence to back up that claim.
He co-founded the House Freedom Caucus, which has used political brinksmanship - under threat of government shutdowns and even a national default on the debt - to bend centrist and establishment Republicans farther to the right.
His solidarity with Israel is shared by Republicans and centrist Democrats, but concerns within the younger and more left-wing elements of the Democratic Party are growing.
However, that proposal is also being met with pushback from hard-line conservatives, prompting some centrist Republicans to consider other options.
I have posted about No Labels, the reactionary centrist political action committee bankrolling Senator Kirsten Sinema and her attack on what's left of the social infrastructure of the Second Reconstruction.
In the main opposition coalition, Together for Change, voters also appeared to be ready to move more to the right as former Security Minister Patricia Bullrich handily beat a more centrist contender, Buenos Aires Mayor Horacio Rodriguez Larreta.
In the process, a centrist social-democratic coalition would govern.
Joe Manchin loves to keep his political options open — and now, as the West Virginia centrist flirts with a third-party campaign for president, his Democratic colleagues are taking him seriously enough to try to talk him out of it.
Macron's centrist government has taken a harder line on migration and security issues after coming under criticism from French conservatives and the far right.
Macron’s centrist government insists the pensions overhaul is necessary to keep the system financially afloat as the population ages and lives longer.
Common combinations with centrist
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts: