Noun
She drew a circle around the correct answer.
We formed a circle around the campfire.
He looked old and tired, with dark circles under his eyes.
She has a large circle of friends.
She is well-known in banking circles. Verb
He circled his arms around his wife's waist.
His arms circled around his wife's waist.
She circled the correct answer.
The pilot circled the airport before landing.
The halfback circled to the left.
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Noun
Dobson was connected to the Council for National Policy, a secretive group with powerful connections across the religious right and conservative political circles.—N'dea Yancey-Bragg, USA Today, 22 Aug. 2025 Bea Larsen was a pioneer in legal circles in Cincinnati as the first woman to serve as president of the Cincinnati Bar Association in 1986.—Jeff Suess, The Enquirer, 21 Aug. 2025
Verb
Every opponent will be circling him on their game plan, knowing one big run could swing the momentum.—Cecil Merkerson, MSNBC Newsweek, 23 Aug. 2025 By 2030, some 100,000 satellites could circle the planet, disrupting radio astronomy observations not hundreds of times per day but thousands.—Tereza Pultarova, Space.com, 20 Aug. 2025 See All Example Sentences for circle
Word History
Etymology
Noun and Verb
Middle English cercle, from Anglo-French, from Latin circulus, diminutive of circus circle, circus, from or akin to Greek krikos, kirkos ring; akin to Old English hring ring — more at ring
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