going in circles
Example Sentences
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“They kept going in circles, almost swiping at each other, but then not quite hitting each other.”
From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 14, 2025
“Are you from here? We keep going in circles trying to find our Airbnb, and our GPS is going crazy.”
From Salon • Jul. 19, 2024
If you feel like conversations with him are going in circles, and are deepening the wound, it may indicate the need for couples counseling or that you need to break up.
From Washington Post • Mar. 16, 2023
"Mass killings solve nothing. We'll keep going in circles unless you address the root causes," Ms Varma says.
From BBC • Sep. 27, 2022
“I kept trying so he wouldn’t find me, but I was going in circles and wherever I hid, there he’d be, I don’t know how, until I found these sort of hut things.”
From "The Knife of Never Letting Go" by Patrick Ness
