How to Use circuit in a Sentence

circuit

1 of 2 noun

• It takes a year for the Earth to make one circuit around the sun.
• This will be their first encounter on the high school circuit.
  — Brian Haenchen, The Indianapolis Star, 1 June 2023
• Cohen said the appeal will be filed with the 5th circuit.
  — Nick Stoico, BostonGlobe.com, 8 Apr. 2023
• And so, the flock of stars flew in from the Los Angeles awards circuit this week to give their thanks.
  — Mario Abad, Vogue, 12 Jan. 2024
• The fault shunts extra current to some parts of the circuit, shorting it out.
  — IEEE Spectrum, 27 May 2023
• Ripa has sat next to a slew of guest hosts on the on-air audition circuit over the years.
  — Elizabeth Wagmeister, Variety, 17 Apr. 2023
• This will create a circuit and will ignite the steel wool.
  — Jim Baird, Field & Stream, 28 June 2023
• Directions Do the 3-minute warmup, then do 3 rounds of the workout circuit.
  — Men's Health, 7 July 2023
• The project first appeared in the circuit in the 2013 Talents Tokyo presentation and won the Grand Prix there that year.
  — Patrick Frater, Variety, 10 Mar. 2024
• Godfrey suggests instead the fire could have caused the circuits in the ceiling area to short out, pop the breakers, and cut out the lights.
  — Helena Skinner, ABC News, 5 Oct. 2023
• Weiss pioneered the idea of genetic circuits, the first of which were based on DNA.
  — Emily Mullin, WIRED, 22 Jan. 2024
• Randy Arozarena scored the winning run in the ninth inning after one of the wildest circuits around the bases to end a World Series game.
  — David Waldstein, New York Times, 1 Sep. 2023
• With such racing chops, Ferrari seems well-placed to expand from tracks and circuits to the high seas.
  — Rachel Cormack, Robb Report, 24 Jan. 2024
• The Formula 1 season has arrived at one of the most beloved circuits in the sport: Monza.
  — Victoria Hernandez, USA TODAY, 2 Sep. 2023
• Dion has made time in his schedule to discuss his friend’s return to the solo circuit.
  — Khari Nixon, SPIN, 6 June 2023
• The results are then compiled in a lookup table that the compiler uses to build the circuit.
  — IEEE Spectrum, 2 Dec. 2023
• One of the brain circuits that governs our response to danger is called the limbic system.
  — Anna Jankowska, Forbes, 29 Mar. 2024
• With the deal, the first of its kind for Formula 1, Paramount+ becomes an official partner of the circuit.
  — Georg Szalai, The Hollywood Reporter, 12 Apr. 2023
• The rise of the Chinese art house cinema circuit has been another feature of the past 12 months.
  — Mathew Scott, The Hollywood Reporter, 12 Mar. 2024
• The state fair circuit runs from mid-June through early October.
  — Bill Center, San Diego Union-Tribune, 23 Mar. 2024
• His 13th podium at Silverstone is the record for most at a single circuit.
  — Victoria Hernandez, USA TODAY, 7 July 2023
• Catherine Zeta-Jones and Michael Douglas enjoyed a fun day at the circuit!
  — Brenton Blanchet, Peoplemag, 28 May 2023
• If the strike continues without stars on the circuit, voters may be left to their own devices again.
  — Clayton Davis, Variety, 19 Oct. 2023
• Play the same hits every summer on the festival circuit?
  — Jonathan Cohen, SPIN, 25 Oct. 2023
• So as part of his circuit, not in his role of chief justice, Chase presided in Baltimore over the trial.
  — Anna Deavere Smith, The Atlantic, 13 Nov. 2023
• The 20-car circuit will travel to 21 countries on five continents.
  — James Raia, The Mercury News, 27 Mar. 2024
• My favorite was the portrait of Daisy and Violet Hilton, conjoined twins who worked the vaudeville circuit.
  — Micaela MacAgnone, New York Times, 26 Aug. 2023
• Hugely popular with fans, Troughton was a firm fixture of the fan convention circuit right up to his death in 1987.
  — Cameron K McEwan, The Hollywood Reporter, 19 Aug. 2023
• What's next: The filmmakers are submitting the film on the festival circuit.
  — Detroit Free Press Staff, Detroit Free Press, 6 May 2023
• The iconic stop along the chitlin circuit—venues that welcomed Black performers during the Jim Crow era—served as a hub for early blues and soul music.
  — Christopher Parker, Smithsonian Magazine, 1 June 2023

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circuit

2 of 2 verb

• The boat didn’t look good and the wiring short-circuited.
  — Sarah Zhang, The Atlantic, 7 June 2017
• But the way the deal was done has short-circuited the democratic process.
  — Jason Hayes, WSJ, 22 June 2018
• There were times the computers on the phone lines were short-circuiting a bit.
  — Teresa Dixon Murray, cleveland.com, 25 Oct. 2017
• Short-circuiting that process won’t help get new projects built.
  — Michael Laris, Washington Post, 9 Apr. 2018
• The blunder short-circuited what looked to be a budding rally.
  — Matt Breen, Philly.com, 16 Apr. 2018
• The Chiefs could have used him on the ensuing drive, when a crucial sack on third and 10 short-circuited the comeback.
  — Terez A. Paylor, kansascity, 15 Oct. 2017
• The Falcons still managed to drive the ball down to the Liberty 10 before a sack and a penalty short-circuited the progress.
  — Eric Bem, baltimoresun.com/maryland/carroll, 5 Oct. 2019
• But the peak moments came and went, often within a phrase or two, a confab that felt short-circuited at times.
  — Martin Wisckol, Orange County Register, 11 June 2017
• The surge, however, didn't short-circuit his hardwiring.
  — Sarah McLellan, Star Tribune, 8 May 2021
• His rapid rise was short-circuited with an injury that robbed him of the feel-good ending in the run to the national championship.
  — Austin Ward, ajc, 1 Dec. 2017
• The offense, meanwhile, had short-circuited on too many drives because of penalties and turnovers.
  — Jeff Potrykus, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 21 Oct. 2017
• Draymond Green and the Warriors’ defense will surely throw the kitchen sink at Aldridge in hopes of short-circuiting the Spurs’ attack.
  — Ben Golliver, SI.com, 12 Apr. 2018
• She's dragged the whole country into this and short-circuited a process the rest of us are vested in and not bothered to explain herself?
  — Fox News, 21 Sep. 2018
• The rover short-circuited while drilling at Telegraph Peak in early 2015, losing a few days for repairs.
  — Avi Selk, Houston Chronicle, 4 Feb. 2018
• This build-up, known as lithium dendrite, can short-circuit the battery and shorten its life.
  — University Of Houston Energy Fellows, Forbes, 14 June 2021
• The first inning was short-circuited when Matt Kemp grounded into a double play.
  — Andy McCullough, latimes.com, 3 May 2018
• The panel’s decisions can be appealed to circuit court.
  — Skyler Swisher, Sun-Sentinel.com, 1 June 2017
• Race these days is a kind of mental high-voltage power surge that is short-circuiting people’s minds.
  — Kyle Smith, National Review, 3 Aug. 2017
• At first glance, evidence abounds that market forces have short-circuited on all counts.
  — The Economist, 19 Oct. 2017
• Bailey's senior season was short-circuited by a knee injury (14 tackles, two for loss, one sack in four starts).
  — Dave Clark, Cincinnati.com, 25 Apr. 2020
• Double-play grounders quickly short-circuited the first and second.
  — Todd Rosiak, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 19 June 2019
• Unfortunately, the strain of having every burner and the oven on at the same time short-circuited the overworked appliance, and their cooking was ground to a halt.
  — Paul Stephen, ExpressNews.com, 23 Oct. 2019
• One escaped through her hospital window and the other short-circuited the electronic lock to her room.
  — Fox News, 1 Mar. 2020
• A Casco Township man was bound over to circuit court Wednesday morning on charges of animal killing and torturing.
  — Nicole Hayden, Detroit Free Press, 27 Apr. 2017
• So a talented freshman Democrat was forced to resign from the Senate, and democracy was short-circuited.
  — Elizabeth Drew, New Republic, 8 Feb. 2018
• But any test of the method’s validity would be short-circuited if Mr. DeAngelo’s offer to plead guilty were accepted.
  — Michael Levenson, New York Times, 4 Mar. 2020
• The orders judges have been issuing that apply everywhere have the effect of short-circuiting the legal process, forcing the high court to step in sometimes before the issues are fleshed out.
  — CBS News, 2 Mar. 2018
• Once the tumor’s cloaking mechanism was short-circuited by the drug, the man’s immune system had no trouble targeting the foreign proteins on the cancer cells.
  — Gina Kolata, New York Times, 8 June 2017
• In each, the electrical system that maintains a regular heartbeat had been short-circuited.
  — Gina Kolata, New York Times, 13 Dec. 2017
• The simpatico seemed real: two combat veterans, who long ago short-circuited their self-destruct buttons, ’bout to burn it down.
  — Matt Farwell, The New Republic, 6 Dec. 2019

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