semicircle

Example Sentences

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Gathering in a semicircle, they listened intently as an introductory speaker explained: “The Olympic Games are coming and there’s a huge lack of personnel.”

From Seattle Times

Metallica was in Southern California just weeks ago for a pair of sold-out dates on its M72 tour, whose ring-shaped stage the band adapted to a semicircle at Power Trip.

From Los Angeles Times

This summer, he brought it out at the end of each of the Cougars’ 14 fall camp practices, gathering players in a semicircle and announcing the winners in a booming voice.

From Seattle Times

Their battles take place in rented-out gyms, galleries and clubhouses where audiences as small as a dozen crowd around unpaid talent in cramped semicircles.

From New York Times

At one point they form a semicircle around Masilo as if to celebrate her.

From New York Times