The particulate elements of heredity all proceed centripetally from somatic-cells to germ-cells (gemmules): the inheritance of acquired characters is therefore habitual.
Usually a radial horizontal spine starts centrifugally from each corner of the basal ring, and on the side of this a small tooth or thorn often starts centripetally or downwards.
The genus Pharyngosphaera differs from Collosphaera by the development of radial tubules on the inside of the shell, which are directed centripetally towards its centre.
The two polar spines arecentripetally prolonged into two internal beams, and perpendicular to these are two other, opposite, transverse beams, marking the minor axis of the ellipsoid.
In either case the contraction and expansion must be thorough to produce results either centripetally or centrifugally.
An uninterrupted tendency in one and the same direction, either centripetally or centrifugally, would soon come to an end and produce stagnation, inertia, death.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "centripetally" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
