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

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

Especially since they were sitting in front of five birdcages, which, Genie realized, if you looked past the entwining vines and leaves, were arranged in a semicircle.

From "As Brave As You" by Jason Reynolds

Their battles take place in rented-out gyms, galleries and clubhouses where audiences as small as a dozen crowd around unpaid talent in cramped semicircles.

From New York Times ● Jun. 14, 2023

“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

Stick the straight edge of the semicircles to the tape, leaving the circular edge hanging off at the tail end.

From "Hope Springs" by Jaime Berry