semicircle

In less than sixty seconds he would become the focus of a hidden and annihilating fire from a semicircle of houses.

He then spread his arms dramatically, drawing a semicircle of emptiness.

When we reached high ground again the twilight was fading to a semicircle of bloodshot gray in the northwest.

The French troops, strung out in a great semicircle on the Ebro, were quickly concentrated.

On the outside, two small flights of steps, forming a semicircle, lead up to the top.

The temples, twenty-seven in number, are excavated in tall perpendicular cliffs, which form a semicircle.

Some twenty of the boys went up, and stood in a large semicircle round the desk.