semicircle

Miloš Forman, the director, had four or five of us sit in a semicircle, as if in a hospital group-therapy session.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 27, 2026

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

The rest of the Lakers sat silently or loitered in a semicircle waiting for their coaches to join.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 8, 2025

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

From Salon ● Oct. 24, 2025

Coal pulled each of them out of the safe and laid them in a semicircle.

From "Boy 2.0" by Tracey Baptiste

“Feeling valued” and “adding value” form semicircles around the target, and an outer circle replicates the four domains for each of the “value” categories in the adjacent inner ring.

From Scientific American ● Oct. 6, 2022

In the ultra-stylized portraits of this Brooklyn-based painter, flesh resolves into Euclidean shapes and decorative patterning: eyes and breasts appear as little half-moons, foreheads and shoulders as perfect semicircles of pink and powder blue.

From New York Times ● Oct. 28, 2021

If the amputated upper arm of an antique sculpture looked like a circle from one angle, he would build up the rest of the figure with circles and semicircles.

From Washington Post ● Jun. 14, 2021

He draws his characters in a way that initially suggests minimal emotion: their eyes are dots, their mouths small semicircles.

From The New Yorker ● Jan. 14, 2019

Seats rose in tiered semicircles around a small raised stage.

From "The Name of the Wind" by Patrick Rothfuss