Noun
She drew a circle around the correct answer.
We formed a circle around the campfire.
He looked old and tired, with dark circles under his eyes.
She has a large circle of friends.
She is well-known in banking circles. Verb
He circled his arms around his wife's waist.
His arms circled around his wife's waist.
She circled the correct answer.
The pilot circled the airport before landing.
The halfback circled to the left.
Recent Examples on the Web
Noun
Miller also held down the draw circle for the regional champion Cavaliers with a whopping 102 draw controls.—Timothy Dashiell, Baltimore Sun, 25 June 2024 Life Archaeologists solve the enigma of Ice Age mammoth bone circles
Strange bone circles made from mammoths revealed clues about how ancient communities survived Europe’s last ice age.—Big Think, 24 June 2024
Verb
First, an actuator film is integrated with additive constructs to form a rotating glider, inspired by the natural maple samara, surpassing natural counterparts in reversibly optical tuning of terminal velocity, rotational rate, and circling position.—Abhishek Bhardwaj, Interesting Engineering, 27 June 2024 About 100 balloons mainly fell in northern Gyeonggi province, which circles Seoul, and in the capital region, the JCS said Tuesday in a message sent to reporters.—Shinhye Kang and Jon Herskovitz / Bloomberg, TIME, 25 June 2024 See all Example Sentences for circle
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Word History
Etymology
Noun and Verb
Middle English cercle, from Anglo-French, from Latin circulus, diminutive of circus circle, circus, from or akin to Greek krikos, kirkos ring; akin to Old English hring ring — more at ring
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