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Examples
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Even as I thought it, he made a sweeping half-circle with the pail and sloshed its contents into the ventilator-opening.
CHAPTER XLIX 2010
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But in the picture it is closer to a half-oval (squashed half-circle).
Jean's Knitting Jean 2009
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The closer larger castle, an ornate half-circle shape on top of a hill, containing a decent art museum, closed just as I got there.
Kassel, Goslar, Hannover, more Göttingen da_lj 2010
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The remaining men were disposed in a large half-circle about the breastwork which Bill-Man and his Sunlanders had begun to throw up.
THE SUNLANDERS 2010
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The closer larger castle, an ornate half-circle shape on top of a hill, containing a decent art museum, closed just as I got there.
Kassel, Goslar, Hannover, more Göttingen da_lj 2010
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In his bifocals, there was star-shaped fracture that extended into the half-circle of reading glass.
How the Species Began Again, I Savannah Schroll Guz 2011
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The park is in the center of town, a half-circle facing the water.
A Conversation with Lana Waite, author of Buried In Burrywood 2010
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With an expertise born of long practice, the driver descends to the beach, swings round in a tight half-circle and halts on the dry sand at the weed's edge, where he unhitches the trailer.
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The girls hushed, formed a half-circle and watched the tunnel.
16 Gary Moshimer 2011
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The foot and leg petrified, while Michael stiff-leggedly drew a half-circle of intimidation about him.
CHAPTER III 2010
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