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semicircle - use in sentences
Converse of object
- form: My companions and I stopped walking, and turning around, I saw the crewmen form a semicircle around their leader.
- make: A young shoot made a semicircle in 24 hrs.
- intersect: Where Lines MO and NO intersect this semicircle read and values along the short curves on the scale of the inner semicircle.
- describe: The huge semicircle described by the old A32 to do the same job seems very silly!
- cut: The shoe is a rectangular piece of wood with a semicircle cut into the far side so that it fits snugly around a disk.
- have: The resort has semicircle shaped facing East, eight kilometers of golden sand covered beach.
Converse of subject
- shelter: The harbor is sheltered by a semicircle of mountains.
Preposition: around
- city: Our lines made a large semicircle around the city of Taegu.
Adjective modifier
- large: Known as the New Cut, there is a large semicircle cut out of the parallel sides to allow the turning of large boats.
- other: Whereupon the semicircle a became bordered with Violet above, Scarlet below; but the other semicircle b quite con trary.
- neat: Sit in the shade, and take inspiration from a bubbling fountain and a neat semicircle of noble Belgian statuary.
- upper: The upper semicircle of each node on the comparison diagram summarizes these features.
- huge: The huge semicircle described by the old A32 to do the same job seems very silly!
Modifies a noun
- round: In a semicircle round the clearing stood the tents of the great functionaries of Bokhara.
Preposition: in
- front: The jury was escorted in and lined up in a semicircle in front of the judge's bench.
Preposition: of
- tree: There is also before the semicircle of the trees just mentioned a large vacant space, where the soldiers are exercised.
- mountain: The harbor is sheltered by a semicircle of mountains.
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