How to Use in circles in a Sentence

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• Someone has spray-painted a rash of stars in circles up the stairs.
  — David Wingrave, Harpers Magazine, 24 Oct. 2025
• Rub the stone lightly in circles on the fabric to detach and pick up fuzz.
  — Brandee Gruener, Southern Living, 18 Aug. 2025
• But as pundits talk in circles about our votes, rising costs push our friends and neighbors out of the city.
  — Theodore A. Moore, New York Daily News, 19 Aug. 2025
• Next, dad whips up a smoothie, while JJ spins around in circles like the fruit in the blender.
  — Elisabeth Sherman, Parents, 26 Dec. 2025
• Supporters walked in circles outside court in protest of Hearn’s charges.
  — Gary Grumbach, NBC news, 9 July 2026
• Just to walk in circles, searching for someone who’s never coming.
  — Michael Nied, People.com, 26 Aug. 2025
• Then iron in circles over the salt to gently scrub away any remaining stickiness.
  — Brandee Gruener, Southern Living, 21 Nov. 2025
• That number stopped me cold; my brain started panicking and running around in circles in my skull.
  — Phil Plait, Scientific American, 22 Jan. 2026
• The song is very Beths — big hook, power pop sunshine, simple and smart lyrics about why life takes around in circles.
  — Jed Gottlieb, Boston Herald, 29 Nov. 2025
• The car can be seen reversing in circles in the near-empty parking lot — the driver’s side door still swinging open.
  — Toria Sheffield, PEOPLE, 19 Oct. 2025
• Jag and Jas finish first and are off to find the next clue, while Turner and Megan walk themselves in circles.
  — Nick Caruso, TVLine, 25 Sep. 2025
• Electronic toys can follow your child and spin in circles to perform dramatic rescues.
  — Bestreviews, Mercury News, 7 Jan. 2026
• The room seemed to flicker as an aerial dancer on Virgin Voyages’ newest ship spun in circles against bright lights.
  — Nathan Diller, USA Today, 11 Sep. 2025
• During the procession and at the park, men gathered in circles to tap their chests in a rhythmic pattern known as latmiya as drummers tapped a beat.
  — Niraj Warikoo, Freep.com, 18 Aug. 2025
• Meanwhile, there were now two F/A-18s flying around the small plane in circles, Rutherford said.
  — Brad Lendon, CNN Money, 12 Apr. 2026
• Authorities found the bear had severe head injuries, was walking in circles and could not flee traffic on the roadway, officials said.
  — Daniella Segura, Sacbee.com, 11 Sep. 2025
• Video of the incident shows a dark gray truck driving in circles with an unmarked beige SUV closely following him around.
  — Eric Levenson, CNN Money, 25 Oct. 2025
• What bothers me is the foot-dragging, the spinning in circles, the slow degradation of these characters into annoying stereotypes.
  — Erik Kain, Forbes.com, 29 June 2026
• However, beneath the surface lies a hidden world of swirling currents, where grains sneak sideways or loop in circles instead of following the obvious flow.
  — Rupendra Brahambhatt, Interesting Engineering, 31 Aug. 2025
• The video, which was shared by Fox 11 Los Angeles, shows two cars spinning in circles around him, just as the release described.
  — Rachel Desantis, PEOPLE, 29 Nov. 2025
• In the video, Gordon shoots hoops, dances freely, and swings her guitar around in circles, mirroring her unexpected freedom in the recording studio.
  — Nina Corcoran, Pitchfork, 14 Jan. 2026
• Cell phone video captured an out-of-control twin-engine boat spinning in circles off Key Biscayne Saturday morning.
  — Anna McAllister, CBS News, 31 Mar. 2026
• The kind where communication feels electric and aligned, where conversations don’t loop in circles but actually go somewhere.
  — Dossé-Via Trenou, Refinery29, 2 Nov. 2025
• The internet rushed to Punch's defense earlier this month after a video of him being aggressively dragged around in circles by an adult monkey went viral.
  — Michelle Del Rey, USA Today, 26 Feb. 2026
• Soundstages went dark as writers and actors hit the picket lines and paced in circles like strikers have since the days of Andrew Carnegie—different industry, same ritual.
  — Maxwell Adler, Vanity Fair, 7 Apr. 2026
• In the circus, everything flows in circles, reflecting freedom and possibility.
  — Naman Ramachandran, Variety, 15 Oct. 2025
• Symptoms of avian flu in birds include neurological signs like swimming or walking in circles, unnatural head tilts, tremors, seizures and difficulty flying.
  — Alexandra Simon, CBS News, 24 Feb. 2026
• The script unfortunately goes round and round in circles with the characters constantly repeating and contradicting themselves.
  — Pam Kragen, San Diego Union-Tribune, 18 Mar. 2026
• The instructors walked in circles around me, moving closer and farther from my ears, hitting bowls, wind chimes, a rain stick, a thumb piano, and a tambor oceánico, an instrument filled with pellets that made a sound like breaking waves.
  — John Bowe, Travel + Leisure, 1 Feb. 2026
• The protesters chanted, marched in circles around the hotel, and made sustained noise meant to deny ICE agents the ability to rest comfortably, Newcomb says.
  — Nandika Chatterjee, Time, 19 Dec. 2025