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

Rivas hit “record” on her phone as a semicircle of trucks and vans came into view.

From Salon • Oct. 24, 2025

We sat on a picnic bench in a sweltering city park, and he tried to provoke me as a crowd of his fans stood in a semicircle around us, staring and heckling.

From Slate • Feb. 10, 2025

Following his gaze, he turned around to find half a dozen fellows from the shell house standing in a semicircle, holding their dirty plates out to him, grins smeared across their faces.

From "The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics" by Daniel James Brown