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
Rivas hit “record” on her phone as a semicircle of trucks and vans came into view.
From Salon ● Oct. 24, 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
The soldiers, swords in hand, had formed a semicircle behind us.
From "Crispin: The Cross of Lead" by Avi
“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
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
Steam rises from the rice cooker, and semicircles of eggplant are sliced and ready to sizzle in the frying pan.
From "You Bring the Distant Near" by Mitali Perkins
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