How to Use semicircle in a Sentence

semicircle

noun

• The houses are built in a semicircle.
• The children sat in a semicircle.
• The grandkids play in an open sod semicircle in the back.
  — Grace Haynes, Southern Living, 25 Apr. 2020
• The devout, dressed in dark suits and white shirts, sit on chairs in a semicircle.
  — Catherine Tharin, BostonGlobe.com, 15 July 2023
• The plain desks are placed in a semicircle on a tiered terrace on one side of an oval pool.
  — Mark Jenkins, Washington Post, 14 July 2023
• The corpses were sprawled in a semicircle, on chairs and beds that had been dragged into the backyard.
  — Andrew Rice, WIRED, 4 Feb. 2011
• The bull can graze on a semicircle of area πL2/2 bounded by the tangent.
  — Quanta Magazine, 9 Dec. 2020
• Lay the semicircle across the rim of a glass and press the folded edge against the glass, half inside and half outside.
  — Becky Krystal, Washington Post, 2 Dec. 2019
• The cafés and bars of the agora come into view, all arranged in a semicircle around the Aegean Sea.
  — Hazlitt, 15 Mar. 2023
• Others were aligned in a smaller semicircle, and the rest were stacked in heaps.
  — National Geographic, 25 May 2016
• Peel onion, cut in half longways, and slice into semicircles the same width as the cukes.
  — Hugh Acheson, Esquire, 4 Apr. 2017
• Its far side is a large semicircle of windows that face the grounds; over this is a domed ceiling.
  — Judy Rose, Detroit Free Press, 24 June 2017
• Use your finger to brush water around the perimeter of the dough round, then fold it in half to form a semicircle and pinch the edges closed.
  — Bryan Washington, The New Yorker, 15 Apr. 2020
• The boxes move, splitting to the left and to the right, making a semicircle around Parks and Cooke, left standing in the center.
  — Ellise Pierce, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 31 Jan. 2024
• Huddled and moving in semicircles to the command of a blue dot on a smartphone, the group looks lost.
  — Aimee Lewis, CNN, 28 June 2019
• The dark green leather banquette seating forms a semicircle with views of the flames and the pine trees from the floor-to-ceiling folding doors.
  — Katie Lockhart, Robb Report, 10 Jan. 2022
• It is wrapped in 1,170 of them, varying in height, each one a semicircle attached to the concrete core of the building.
  — Mark Lamster, Dallas News, 24 June 2021
• Fold dry side of dough up and over filling to create a semicircle.
  — Ignacio Mattos, Bon Appetit, 23 Apr. 2018
• The first responders gathered in the ER in a semicircle.
  — Tribune News Service, The Mercury News, 9 Feb. 2024
• Irvin and Reed were introduced by Richt to a large semicircle of kneeling campers for some thoughts to wrap up the event.
  — David Furones, Sun-Sentinel.com, 23 July 2017
• Lee, Jones, and the ambassadors formed a semicircle around him.
  — Andrew Marantz, The New Yorker, 17 May 2021
• Chairs were arranged in front of it in a semicircle, facing the water through the windows.
  — Joshua Rothman, The New Yorker, 13 Nov. 2023
• In the cramped space near the clinic’s front desk, metal chairs were arranged in a semicircle, with one chair in front, meant for him.
  — Tracy Kidder, New York Times, 5 Jan. 2023
• The guests were arranged in a tight semicircle facing Dorothy.
  — Jonathan Reynolds, Town & Country, 11 July 2014
• Fold the semicircle of orange paper in half again to form a quarter-circle; press the fold flat.
  — Catherine Woram, Woman's Day, 9 Sep. 2019
• Those were the words that unfastened the tight semicircle of people surrounding the boy with his back against the wall.
  — Seija Rankin, EW.com, 20 Aug. 2021
• Lift and lower the legs from the right to left in a semicircle, or rainbow-shaped, movement, then back to the opposite side.
  — Ashley Mateo, Health.com, 7 Oct. 2020
• Fold the empty half of the circle over the filling to form a semicircle, firmly press the edges together to seal.
  — Washington Post, 9 Dec. 2020
• Later, Colbert gathered all of his guests to chat in a semicircle of chairs.
  — Frazier Moore, chicagotribune.com, 10 May 2017
• The fruit is painted on semicircles of cardboard at protests in support of Palestinians.
  — Callie Holtermann, New York Times, 27 Dec. 2023

Last Updated: 26 Oct 2024