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

Doors opened and shut, and people began to emerge, gathering into a semicircle.

From Slate ● Oct. 27, 2025

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

From Salon ● Oct. 24, 2025

Ted and I climbed the steps onto a swank front porch, a semicircle jobbie with lots of sturdy-looking white pillars.

From "Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet" by Joanne Proulx

“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

About five years ago, the artist Gabriel Orozco started printing colorful stickers that mimic the geometry of his abstract paintings: semicircles and quarter-circles in red, gold, white and blue.

From New York Times ● Feb. 8, 2017

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