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

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 8, 2025

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

The soldiers, swords in hand, had formed a semicircle behind us.

From "Crispin: The Cross of Lead" by Avi

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

The device is a decidedly un-cuddly thing: two squat semicircles joined to one other.

From Washington Post ● Mar. 16, 2022

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

The building was a fine one; the lobby was chrome and glass, with ashtray stands and plastic couches arranged in semicircles.

From "The Woman Warrior" by Maxine Hong Kingston