semicircle
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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
What little hair he had left formed a semicircle of white bristle that started above his ears and met somewhere in the back.
From "City Spies" by James Ponti
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
Some people around Welch cut tires into two semicircles, painted them white, and used them as edging for their gardens.
From "The Glass Castle" by Jeannette Walls
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