semicircle

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

The men stamped out their cigarettes and spread slowly into a semicircle.

From "Artemis Fowl" by Eoin Colfer

“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

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

Figure 5.30 The polar region R lies between two semicircles.

From Textbooks ● Mar. 30, 2016

The upper parts held her latest lace shawls, knit in the shapes of triangles, semicircles, and rectangles.

From "Bye Forever, I Guess" by Jodi Meadows