SEMICIRCLE in a Sentence

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Beyond that post a fresh pit had been dug in the ground, and near the post and the pit a large crowd stood in a semicircle.

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 Meanings and Examples of SEMICIRCLE
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semicircle
 n.  half of a circle, or something in this shape
Classic Sentence:
1  Beyond that post a fresh pit had been dug in the ground, and near the post and the pit a large crowd stood in a semicircle.
War and Peace 4 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 12: CHAPTER XI
2  They all had their coats unbuttoned and were standing in a semicircle with flushed and animated faces, laughing loudly.
War and Peace 5 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 13: CHAPTER IV
3  The wattle wall the men had brought was set up in a semicircle by the Eighth Company as a shelter from the north, propped up by musket rests, and a campfire was built before it.
War and Peace 5 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 15: CHAPTER VII
4  The servants were called in, the dining-room tables wheeled away, the lights otherwise disposed, the chairs placed in a semicircle opposite the arch.
Jane Eyre By Charlotte Bronte
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XVIII
5  Entering a portal, fastened only by a latch, I stood amidst a space of enclosed ground, from which the wood swept away in a semicircle.
Jane Eyre By Charlotte Bronte
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXVII
6  After making nearly a semicircle around the pond, they diverged from the water-course, and began to ascend to the level of a slight elevation in that bottom land, over which they journeyed.
The Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore Cooper
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 22
7  They abandoned one another, abandoned all their heavy baggage, their artillery, and half their men, and fled, getting past the Russians by night by making semicircles to the right.
War and Peace 5 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 14: CHAPTER XVII
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