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Example sentences for "circular"

Lexicographically close words:
circuiting; circuitous; circuitously; circuits; circuitu; circularity; circularize; circularized; circularizing; circularly
  1. In September he despatched a Circular to the Great Powers definitely proposing combined representations at Bucharest.

  2. Each pupil leaves the line at the same moment as the others, executes a circular line of twelve steps as in a private lesson, and takes her place in the line again.

  3. The volte is a circular movement, executed by the horse upon a curved line, not less than twelve of his steps in length.

  4. The pupils leave their places simultaneously by a diagonal line, and return to the same track; but, on the other hand, by a circular line of six steps.

  5. The Case: Cut from the bleached muslin two circular pieces.

  6. To fit this circular holder, the shade may be rounded out at the top, although it can be used with the straight edge.

  7. The Holder: Cut from the unbleached muslin two circular pieces.

  8. To cut the Circular Pattern: Cut a square of paper eight inches by eight inches and fold it three times.

  9. One day I saw faintly an immense pit of blackness, round which went a circular parapet, and on this parapet sat innumerable apes eating precious stones out of the palms of their hands.

  10. Away they went at a great pace across hedges and ditches, till they came to a royalty (a name for the little circular ditches, commonly called raths or forts, that Ireland is covered with since Pagan times).

  11. At last it was freed, a three-foot circular sheet of glass mounted on a framework of brass and wood.

  12. Circular hillocks with faint spirals of blue smoke drifting upward from a crevice in the top.

  13. In configuration the nest resembles a neat, semi-circular basket, and measures about three and a half inches in diameter, one and a half in width, and about one in depth.

  14. On examination it will be found to be nearly circular above, although somewhat irregular towards the lower two-thirds.

  15. It was a beautiful affair, in shape like a long purse, and having a neat circular opening near the top which answered for a doorway.

  16. It is where the nest, instead of occupying a nearly horizontal position, which is the natural one, is placed at an angle of inclination, and bears in the superior third a circular opening.

  17. In one side there is a circular hole one inch in diameter.

  18. Cartridge-bags for cylindrical chambers are made of a rectangle to form the cylinder, and a circular piece to form the bottom.

  19. Radius of circular pattern | of bottom, including | four-tenths of an inch | for seam.

  20. This is supplied by a disk for circular measurements, which may also be considered as belonging to the star-gauge.

  21. You should also make mention of him in your circular letter in detail.

  22. Circular letter concerning the residential house of Bahá’u’lláh in Baghdád.

  23. Circular letter concerning the purchase of land around the Holy Shrines in Haifa.

  24. It has at each end a colonnade of marble pillars supporting circular arches, and the grounds are broad and spacious.

  25. Modern science shows that all storms are cyclonic, that is, are circular eddies of wind of greater or less diameter.

  26. Every seat of the large circular theatre was occupied.

  27. The water fell into a small, but deep, circular pond.

  28. It was a circular rock, with two irregular terraces, and at its top a little basin, deep here and shallow there; its bottom was all covered with little spots of pearly whiteness, looking as if inlaid.

  29. Right before me was this huge sheet of water, pouring into a dark circular pool beneath.

  30. In these are formed all kinds of circular articles, such as tumblers and lamp glasses.

  31. In the middle of one of the pieces bore a circular aperture about 4/10 an inch in diameter.

  32. These tubes are fixed at their extremities into two circular supports that are riveted to the interior of the cylinder.

  33. The Capilla Mayor, the principal feature of the interior, is circular in form, and separated from the nave by a splendid "Arco Toral.

  34. How far the abrupt and uninteresting apsidal termination of Salamanca was Juan Gil's fault, it is difficult to say, for we find records of its having been imposed upon him by the Chapter as well as of his having drawn a circular apse.

  35. At a later date, under Aquitaine bishops, certain forms of vaulting characteristic of their region were adopted as well as devices to bring about the transition between the circular dome and the square base.

  36. A circular light flanked by Peter and Paul comes above, and the whole is encased in a series of broken arches filled with the most intricate carving.

  37. The finely carved capitals carry square abaci in the side aisles and circular ones in the nave.

  38. The northeastern angle is blocked by poor Renaissance masonry, the exterior of the chapels here being faced by a Corinthian order and broken by circular lights.

  39. With the collapse of the old crossing and the consequent erection of an even bulkier and far more weighty superstructure, tremendous circular supports upon octagonal bases were substituted.

  40. It is carved into the sidewalk, showing in relief a geometrical, circular pattern, each circle filled with a quantity of small Gothic lancets, surely difficult both to design and to execute.

  41. The chevet is the keynote of the plan, and the solution of the problem, how to vault the different compartments lying between the three concentric circular terminations beyond the choir.

  42. Everywhere are Romanesque portals and arches, palaces and the apses and circular chapels of the age, bulging beyond the sidewalks into the cobblestones of the street.

  43. The lower part of the vesicle grows forward and becomes the cochlea, while from the upper part three hollow circular plates grow out, the central parts of which disappear, leaving the margin as the semicircular canals.

  44. First the little babies were offered up in the shape of the Bande Mataram circular and the Carlyle circular.

  45. This represents two superposed circular vibrations, in opposite directions, of period 2[pi]/p.

  46. The poles are either of cast steel of circular or oblong section, bolted to the rim of the yoke-ring, or are built up of thin laminations of sheet steel.

  47. The half-disc of Venus seemed to fall below them, and in a few minutes they could see it from the upper deck spreading out like a huge semi-circular plain of light ahead and on both sides of them.

  48. At the further end of it were three semi-circular rows of seats made of a polished silvery metal, and in the centre and raised slightly above them another under a canopy of sky-blue silk.

  49. The circular then proposed a new method of bringing out the full Whig vote, in essence the same that is now employed by every successful political organization.

  50. The Committee of Whigs in charge of Harrison's political campaign in Illinois issued a circular urging the organization of the whole State for the Presidential contest.

  51. The circular is conclusive that his style and his thought were not altogether the fruition of his maturity.

  52. To make our quarters a little more comfortable, we set to work and built high circular hedges or kraals of green boughs round our fires, the narrow entrance facing the tent door.

  53. The Fingoes plundered a Kaffir village of considerable quantities of maize, discovered buried in large circular holes, neatly plastered over, in the floors of the huts, to which they afterwards set fire.

  54. This circular tube therefore receives five radial tubes--one from each of the five rays--and is likewise in communication with a number of membraneous sacs (Fig.

  55. This circular or marginal tube in both cases communicates by minute apertures with the external medium.

  56. The circular tube surrounding the mouth communicates at one point with a calcareous tube (Fig.

  57. If a circular piece be now cut out from the centre of the umbrella, the rhythm of the latter again becomes temporarily quickened; but, as before, gradual slowing next supervenes.

  58. Having made a circular strip, I removed all the lithocysts save one, and then cut the strip as represented in Fig.

  59. In order to ascertain whether certain zones of the circular contractile sheet in all individuals habitually convey more of the contractile influence than do other zones, I tried a number of experiments in the following form of section.

  60. I distinguish this by the name "circular" band or strip, because the two ends tend to preserve their original relative positions, so giving the strip more or less of a circular form.

  61. In a circular strip the rate of the waves is uniform over the whole extent of the strip; so that the time of their transit from one point to another varies directly as the length of the strip.

  62. A body which in all positions casts a circular shadow must itself be spherical.

  63. Borelli, treating of the motions of Jupiter's satellites, shows how a circular movement may arise under the influence of a central force.

  64. An idea of the incorruptibility of the celestial objects had led to the adoption of the Aristotelian doctrine of the perfection of circular motions, and to the belief that there were none but circular motions in the heavens.

  65. In the latter half of the seventeenth century, through the works of Borelli, Hooke, and Huyghens, it had become plain that circular motions could be accounted for by the laws of Galileo.

  66. The circular visible horizon and its dip at sea, the gradual appearance and disappearance of ships in the offing, cannot fail to incline intelligent sailors to a belief in the globular figure of the earth.

  67. He adopted the theory of epicycles and eccentrics, a geometrical conception for the purpose of resolving the apparent motions of the heavenly bodies on the principle of circular movement.

  68. Hooke exhibited the inflection of a direct motion into a circular by a supervening central attraction.

  69. The fore feet are nearly circular in a healthy horse, the hind feet more oval in form.

  70. Nenci had turned the circular base until the ends of the almost imperceptible line had joined.

  71. You see, the base being circular is made to move," he added, taking the little ornament in his hand.

  72. The Circular Clew A Detective searching for the murderer of a dead man was accosted by a Clew.

  73. Greatly encouraged, they prepared a little circular which was the first advertisement of the telephone business.

  74. All this my own ears heard," he said, "spoken to me with unmistakable distinctness by this circular disc of iron.

  75. The log is a piece of thin board of a quadrantal form, about the size and shape of a quarter-section of the bottom of a common water-pail, loaded on the circular side with enough lead to make it swim upright in the water.


  76. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "circular" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    advertisement; announcement; backhanded; circuitous; circular; communique; coronary; cyclic; cyclical; declaration; deviating; devious; digressive; discursive; edict; encyclical; enunciation; excursive; folder; helical; indirect; insert; leaflet; manifesto; meandering; notice; notification; oblique; orbital; pamphlet; poster; proclamation; program; promotion; pronouncement; report; rotary; rotund; round; roundabout; rounded; spiral; statement; tract; ukase


    Some related collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    circular form; circular letter; circular motion; circular piece