Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Having the form of a circle; circular; round.
- In heraldry, surrounded by rays of light forming a sort of halo.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Having the form of a circle; round.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb Simple past tense and past participle of
circle . - adjective Having the form of a circle;
round .
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Examples
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Pain circled my head, blood trickled coppery in my mouth, and darkness called until the clock ticked into the next millisecond and my foot came down awkwardly on the dirt.
365 tomorrows » 2009 » November : A New Free Flash Fiction SciFi Story Every Day 2009
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Ah we have again circled back from HOPE and transformed our messages into doom and gloom.
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Pain circled my head, blood trickled coppery in my mouth, and darkness called until the clock ticked into the next millisecond and my foot came down awkwardly on the dirt.
365 tomorrows » In This Reality : A New Free Flash Fiction SciFi Story Every Day 2009
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In the sunshine afterward, talk of her name circled the air.
Washington honors memory of civil rights leader Dorothy Height Wil Haygood 2010
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Semin circled the zone from behind the net, picked up his own rebound from a blocked shot in the right circle and swatted in a backhander at the right post.
USATODAY.com 2007
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In the Ison Corridor, by a bright star called Anoat, there circled a smaller star called Bespin circled in turn by a fat and many mooned gas giant.
Archive 2005-04-17 2005
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I recently returned a fundraising letter in its business reply envelope with the word circled and the written comment, “This is not a word.”
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I recently returned a fundraising letter in its business reply envelope with the word circled and the written comment, “This is not a word.”
The Volokh Conspiracy » Most Commonly Misspelled Phrases: 2007
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In the Ison Corridor, by a bright star called Anoat, there circled a smaller star called Bespin circled in turn by a fat and many mooned gas giant.
That's So Wizard! 2005
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Mats Sundin circled around the net and slid a pass to the edge of the left faceoff circle, where Hoglund put a shot past goaltender Roman Turek.
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