How to Use semicircle in a Sentence

semicircle

noun
  • The houses are built in a semicircle.
  • The children sat in a semicircle.
  • The devout, dressed in dark suits and white shirts, sit on chairs in a semicircle.
    — Catherine Tharin, BostonGlobe.com, 15 July 2023
  • Fold dry side of dough up and over filling to create a semicircle.
    — Ignacio Mattos, Bon Appetit, 23 Apr. 2018
  • 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
  • The corpses were sprawled in a semicircle, on chairs and beds that had been dragged into the backyard.
    — Andrew Rice, WIRED, 4 Feb. 2011
  • In one of the hunts, called a xingwei, horsemen armed with bows formed a vast semicircle to push wildlife ahead of them.
    — Literary Hub, 14 Nov. 2025
  • The guests were arranged in a tight semicircle facing Dorothy.
    — Jonathan Reynolds, Town & Country, 11 July 2014
  • This is a huge upgrade from the semicircle, akin to moving from a love seat to a sectional.
    — Jack Murtagh, Scientific American, 4 Feb. 2025
  • Lee, Jones, and the ambassadors formed a semicircle around him.
    — Andrew Marantz, The New Yorker, 17 May 2021
  • At its heart, pi refers to a semicircle, whereas tau refers to the circle in its entirety.
    — Randyn Charles Bartholomew, Scientific American, 25 June 2014
  • 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
  • Chairs were arranged in front of it in a semicircle, facing the water through the windows.
    — Joshua Rothman, The New Yorker, 13 Nov. 2023
  • 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
  • Arranged in a cozy semicircle, the bedrooms are each large enough for a twin bed and personal items.
    — Nadia Drake, National Geographic, 30 Aug. 2016
  • Later, Colbert gathered all of his guests to chat in a semicircle of chairs.
    — Frazier Moore, chicagotribune.com, 10 May 2017
  • When my car pulled up, a group of Ukrainian soldiers formed a semicircle around it, their rifles drawn.
    — The New Yorker, 12 Mar. 2022
  • 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 bottle is a tall trapezoid, featuring crisp lines and a golden semicircle at the top.
    — Dallas News, 30 Nov. 2022
  • That leaves us with just the upper semicircle and two antipodal points — one at each end of the semicircle.
    — Steve Nadis, Quanta Magazine, 24 Jan. 2023
  • 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
  • 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
  • The cafés and bars of the agora come into view, all arranged in a semicircle around the Aegean Sea.
    — Hazlitt, 15 Mar. 2023
  • The image shows a semicircle made up of people surrounding an object on the southwest side of the church.
    — Katharine Houreld, Washington Post, 7 July 2023
  • In the grill room, a semicircle of members, still wearing their own green jackets, stood rapt before a flatscreen in the corner.
    — Nick Paumgarten, The New Yorker, 14 June 2019
  • 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
  • And starting nearing the elbow, Azubuike took two steps back, his feet once again resting on the charge semicircle.
    — Jesse Newell, kansascity, 31 Mar. 2018
  • Elsewhere a young pirate boy grins so broadly that the bottom half of his face is enveloped in a perfect semicircle of teeth.
    — Maya Phillips, New York Times, 11 Oct. 2025

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