pivot

How To Use pivot In A Sentence

• Forming the pivot of the exhibition is a large group of watercolours.
• Among an ever-improving crop of pivotmen, Duncan is still the most dependable and fundamentally sound.
• Colin Clarke was a pivot of real class, becoming more influential as the game evolved.
• I stumbled over the fallen coon who had pivoted me, ducked a swat from a club, dived between a bull's legs, and was free. Some Adventures With the Police
• The media play a pivotal role in shaping American perceptions of events in Korea.
• The smaller of its hands occasionally slipped round on the pivot, and thus, though the minutes were told with precision, nobody could be quite certain of the hour they belonged to.
• For the U.S., Okinawa is the pivot of its East Asian military presence.
• The swinging door is pivoted on one side; the revolving door is pivoted in the centre.
• Some are quite basic, mere saucer-like indentations, but others are exquisitely engineered with intricate pivots and fulcrums unravelling to form a protruding secure holder.
• Some of the fossils are proving pivotal in testing the hypothesis that birds are the living descendants of dinosaurs.