- present participle of circle.
circling
Example Sentences
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Last week, a BA flight bound for Chicago spent five hours circling over Ireland, before turning back and landing at London Heathrow, where it had taken off.
From BBC ● Oct. 13, 2026
Like other PWCs, the CrossWave starts circling if the rider lets go of the handlebars.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 10, 2026
“We’ve been circling 5.5% on the 10-year as a time when we’re probably going to get more interested in this,” Reynolds said.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 29, 2026
“Everybody’s circling us on their calendar, so our games are going to be hard-fought,” Lake said, “and this game was one of them.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 28, 2026
Had anyone paid real attention to her subject—and not the styling of her hair—he might have noticed that she was circling a monumental conceptual advance, albeit with deliberate caginess.
From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee
