CIRCULAR in a Sentence

Learn CIRCULAR 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 CIRCULAR, below is one of 42 sentences:
Suddenly I noticed that the circular westward outline of the sun had changed; that a concavity, a bay, had appeared in the curve.

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 Meanings and Examples of CIRCULAR
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circular
 a.  round; shaped like or nearly like a circle
Classic Sentence: (32 in 3 pages)
1  This would light the stalls and warm them in winter, and would also run a circular saw, a chaff-cutter, a mangel-slicer, and an electric milking machine.
Animal Farm By George Orwell
Context  Highlight   In Chapter V
2  She was off, they guessed, on a circular tour of the imagination--one-making.
Between the Acts By Virginia Woolf
Context  Highlight   In Unit 11
3  The day had greyed over; the small blue sky that had poised low on its circular rims of haze was closed in again, the lid was down, there was a raw coldness.
Lady Chatterley's Lover By D H Lawrence
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 5
4  The talking ceased, and Fairway gave a circular motion to the rope, as if he were stirring batter.
Return of the Native By Thomas Hardy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 3: 3 The First Act in a Timeworn Drama
5  Clym ascended behind her, and noticed a circular burnt patch at the top of the bank.
Return of the Native By Thomas Hardy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 3: 3 The First Act in a Timeworn Drama
6  Shadwater Weir had at its foot a large circular pool, fifty feet in diameter, into which the water flowed through ten huge hatches, raised and lowered by a winch and cogs in the ordinary manner.
Return of the Native By Thomas Hardy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 5: 9 Sights and Sounds Draw the Wanderers Together
7  The whole steep slope was covered with gray circular rings of stone, a score of them at least.
The Hound of the Baskervilles By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 7. The Stapletons of Merripit House
8  In a circular opening, high up in the wall of the nearer house, I saw a group of figures clad in rich soft robes.
The Time Machine By H. G. Wells
Context  Highlight   In III
9  A peculiar feature, which presently attracted my attention, was the presence of certain circular wells, several, as it seemed to me, of a very great depth.
The Time Machine By H. G. Wells
Context  Highlight   In V
10  Suddenly I noticed that the circular westward outline of the sun had changed; that a concavity, a bay, had appeared in the curve.
The Time Machine By H. G. Wells
Context  Highlight   In XI
11  Jackson Elder's small planing-mill, with the smell of fresh pine shavings and the burr of circular saws.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER X
12  Miles Bjornstam, the pariah "Red Swede," had brought his circular saw and portable gasoline engine to the house, to cut the cords of poplar for the kitchen range.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XVI
13  out by an official circular, issued by Lieutenant Maury, of.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 44. The Chart.
14  that circular, it appears that precisely such a chart is in.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 44. The Chart.
15  Attached to this back-bone, for something less than a third of its length, was the mighty circular basket of ribs which once enclosed his vitals.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 103. Measurement of The Whale's Skeleton.
Example Sentence:
1  She paid a circular visit among her relations.
2  The lamp stands on a circular base.
3  From a front view the small birds can look almost circular.
4  The circular arrangement presents similar alternatives if one reads the lines of each hexagram from the center outward.
5  The new device emits a powerful circular column of light.
6  Place your hands on your shoulders and move your elbows up, back, and down, in a circular motion.
7  It is not a circular slipped under your door to which you may or may not respond with a pre-paid envelope.
8  What should you do before start cutting with a circular saw?
9  This particular logical fallacy is called 'circular definition'.
10  What resulted was system of planets orbiting in elliptical, not circular, orbits described by three laws.