CIRCLE in a Sentence

Learn CIRCLE from example sentences, some of them are from classic books. These examples are selected from a corpus with 300,000 sentences, including classic works and current mainstream media. Some sentences also link to their contexts.

For CIRCLE, below is one of 262 sentences:
Heads bowed in the circle of yellow light as Ellen thanked God for the health and happiness of her home, her family and her negroes.

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 Meanings and Examples of CIRCLE
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
circle
 v.  travel around something
 n.  movement once around a course
Classic Sentence: (210 in 15 pages)
1  Heads bowed in the circle of yellow light as Ellen thanked God for the health and happiness of her home, her family and her negroes.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER IV
2  They would swarm around her like bees around a hive, and certainly Ashley would be drawn from Melanie to join the circle of her admirers.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER IV
3  The Munroe girls rushed up to exclaim over her dress, and she was speedily the center of a circle of voices that rose higher and higher in efforts to be heard above the din.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VI
4  Ashley had made no attempt to join the circle about her, in fact she had not had a word alone with him since arriving, or even spoken to him since their first greeting.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VI
5  That radiance lasted until everyone in the circle about the open fire began to yawn, and Mr. Wilkes and the girls took their departure for the hotel.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XV
6  Instead of continuing the direct assault, he swung his army in a wide circle again and tried to come between the Confederates and Atlanta.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XVIII
7  But Mrs. Whiting went and many other ladies of Scarlett's circle.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XVIII
8  She sat down on the steps in the circle of faint light thrown by the lamp and continued gnawing on the corn bread.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXIII
9  The lamp on the sidewalk burned on, making a tiny yellow circle of light which grew smaller and smaller as they moved away.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXIII
10  Within their circle lay the ruins of John Wilkes' house, the charred remains of that once stately home which had crowned the hill in white-columned dignity.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXV
11  Will paused and his eyes went quietly around the circle of faces.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XL
12  Better than a ladies' sewing circle.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XLIII
13  Trembling they obeyed, even Pitty picking up a sock and holding it in shaking fingers while her eyes, wide as a frightened child's went around the circle for an explanation.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XLV
14  How long Melanie read beneath that circle of watching eyes, Scarlett never knew but it seemed hours.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XLV
15  Other misfits in Scarlett's circle remained there only because they were not welcome elsewhere.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XLIX
Example Sentence: (52 in 4 pages)
16  Years to draw a circle we call years.
17  Use your compasses to draw a circle.
18  They sat in a circle round the fire.
19  The students sit in a circle on the floor.
20  He has squared the circle of keeping the City happy and doing something to improve business cash flow.
21  He has a large circle of acquaintances.
22  He used a rope to mark off the circle.
23  He is part of an exclusive social circle and belongs to an exclusive club.
24  This discovery is highly appreciated in the circle of science.
25  He drew a circle in the sand with a stick.
26  Please move clockwise in a circle.
27  She sought solitude, and avoided us when in gaiety and unrestrained affection we met in a family circle.
28  They build in a circle and bevel the edges of the blocks so that the igloo is shaped like a bee-hive.
29  His hand slid from the back of her neck to circle the base of her throat, and her pulse leaped as her breasts tightened in sensual hunger.
30  We truncate the top of a cone in a plane parallel to its base is a circle.