semicircle

Example Sentences

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For instance, traveling from the North Pole to the South Pole along Earth's surface follows a semicircle, which represents the shortest possible route on a sphere.

From Science Daily • Mar. 9, 2026

When you put it on you see before you four empty wooden chairs ranged in a semicircle.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 22, 2026

The playa is arranged as a semicircle, and radial streets are named as if their position were a clock face.

From Salon • Oct. 27, 2025

Doors opened and shut, and people began to emerge, gathering into a semicircle.

From Slate • Oct. 27, 2025

They fan out in a three-person semicircle as she hugs me tight, the kind of hug she used to give me when I was a five-year-old, complete with swaying.

From "It’s Kind of a Funny Story" by Ned Vizzini