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Sentence Examples When I was a television journalist here in town, I did the news the night that one of the Apollo spaceships was circling the earth. Max has the night beat, circling a nocturnal but always active Los Angeles. Alas I spent 45 minutes circling downward in very buoyant air and landed south of Danville for 114 miles the new site record. In the early 18th century, the bales came to be half buried in the ground circling the ring, similar to the way they are at present. The film moves rapidly and without signposts from Cape Breton to England, Scotland and Ireland, eventually circling back to where it started. Sequences are shown featuring artillery attack on enemy positions directed by a circling spotter plane. Lieberman said they would have followed clues such as vultures circling in the distance. Done, he dragged brush over it so buzzards circling high above the manzanita-covered hills wouldn't eat of it and die. They sing a cappella, circling the pews as congregants trickle in and join the singing. The females, in particular, produce striking plumage complete with prominent white eyestripes circling the head and meeting on the nape. To attract a female, the male performs a high, circling flight display, followed by a steep dive. The colour scheme is muted but for vivid splashes of red, with most shots dominated by looming shadows, towers or circling carrion crows. Eventually she flew off, but not before circling back and dropping a single feather at his feet. But on this particularly sunny April Saturday, the circling helicopters and marching Orangemen did not provoke trouble. After Trafalgar, the Empire was hemmed in and its many enemies began circling their prey. For centuries, man has relied on the stars, circling planets and the constant horizon to guide him in his travels. There was no one to overhear them save a speckled chicken hawk circling lazily on the updraft from the mountain. Some were working outside a thick palisade of wooden palings which ran circling outside the buildings. Once, Robert, with the two Rutland boys aboard, came across a circling kahawai doing just that. Comfortingly, as I type this, I can feel the whump of a helicopter circling overhead. Show More Sentences You're all like a bunch of sharks circling around a freshly thrown bucket of chum. The groundskeepers dug up and presented the home plate that Boggs knelt down and kissed after circling the bases for his 3000th hit. The group slowly filed into the small cell, circling the block in quiet reverence. Soon we were circling each other warily, but I had fought him before, and I remembered his weaknesses. Turning to a working radar, we immediately spotted little white dots circling nearby Alcatraz Island. He reads the collected works, all thirteen volumes, circling through them as if they have no beginning or end, which they do not. The combatants were circling each other warily, and waiting for the next move. Australia's media barons are circling each other like sharks in a very small aquarium. Rather than smile and wink flirtatiously, they instead stare at each other curiously, like two predators circling each other in the wild. It dumped its fuel in the ocean, before circling back to the airport with 273 passengers and crew. Snap would orbit a three-mirror, 2-meter reflecting telescope in a high orbit over Earth's poles, circling the globe every week or 14 days. Normally she reminds me by circling the date in red on her desk calendar and angling it so that I can't help but see it. Looking around Joe saw the goggled face of his co-pilot, circling with his hand and then pointing downwards. Troublemakers were gobbing at the stage, the aggressive drunk was still circling unhindered in his own personal patch of clear dance floor. I first noticed something was amiss by the helicopter circling over the Arakawa at about 8pm on Thursday evening. Ten minutes ago two attack helicopters peeled off overhead, circling London in tight formation and I could see police launches on the Thames. There was another with a tea glass in her hand circling what I thought was coconut water. Lucy, the retriever, seems happily oblivious to everything that's happened and continues to chase after low circling birds. From the lake we were able to see several sizable climbs in the broken rock circling the upper third of our target. Thousands of galaxies revolve about its center, moving in every possible orbit like bees circling a beehive. Show More Sentences In fact bid rumours have been constantly circling ever since it first announced the plan to demerge the company last year. They were multicolored, a dark outer ring circling inner shades of ocean blue. Also, stereotypical behaviour and circling movement induced by apomorphine was suppressed. The turkey vulture is not the only opportunist circling in the roasting sun of the Chihuahuan desert. The ghagras she wore were similar to the ones worn by women in miniature paintings which allowed easy circling movements. According to one of many legends, Wickenburg named the Vulture Mine after the buzzards circling over his head as he struck pay dirt. Below me circling somewhere beneath the swell are the lumpen outlines of not one but two 15 ft Great White Sharks. A leading animal expert has promised to come to Bolton in a bid to catch a rare eagle owl which has been circling the town all week. Calmly curious, they cruise right up to us before passing gently overhead, circling back for a series of fly-bys. When the jet reached Manchester Airport, the aircraft's wings were tipped in salute to its new home before circling and touching down. This reporter happened upon a rare sighting of two crested serpent eagles circling together in the sky over the forest canopy. Murals of deserts populated with wagon trails, circling bald eagles and cowpokes chasing cattle fill the walls. It is used to give the ball to a teammate who is either cutting or circling behind you. Once again, the fly-pasts were conducted bang on schedule, with the aircraft circling overhead to the mounting excitement of the children. Like any real therapy, if one works hard at it, healing moves forward by circling backward, Repentance, turning, is a backstitch. A pickup truck was circling the pond, which flushed some birds out of the reeds and into the open water. The shark is circling Farnsworth, you of the bandy legs and discombobulated dance maneuverings. As she draws close to the Sun she disappears from view in her helical setting, circling the Earth invisibly masked by the Sun's light. Every visitor is given a pair of hardwood rhythm sticks which they clack together while circling four traditionally painted warriors. One hand wiped itself on her floury apron while its mate attempted to smooth the flyaways circling her face. Show More Sentences The public health people have been circling the wagons to cover up the facts! The press office responded to criticism by circling the wagons and freezing out reporters. If she tilted her head back she could see a hawk circling in the air, its magnificent wings beating steadily to keep it in the air. At the bell for round one, he came out fast and was up on his toes circling to the left nonstop. Blue-white standards with black falls and a yellow sunburst pattern circling the red beards will surely dazzle any iris lover. She went through the ads with her pen, circling some and putting a single line alongside others. As he held the classified section toward me, I noticed a hastily drawn line circling one of the ads. It is a perfect spring day as they stroll along the path circling the artificial lake. You can sometimes see the beautiful fish eagle circling overhead and hear the shrieking of the brown headed parrot in the trees. They walked into a giant shooting range were Cody could see Barbra circling the area. All over England, removal vans are probably circling, followed by weeping homeless persons, their hopes in shreds. Earlier in the week I saw a black kite circling and cruising around the perimeter of the water. They each bore into each other's eyes, circling each other like two black panthers, each afraid to be the first to move. Huge, black vultures soar over canyon, desert and forest, circling nimbly on updrafts. Of all the moons circling all the planets in the solar system, only Saturn's moon, Titan, is known to have an atmosphere. Themes and motifs interweave and recur, circling around each other, acquiring new associations with each repetition. Above us we heard the buzzing sound of slow-moving unmanned aerial surveillance drones circling the sky. A blue eagle kept circling over them, so Conor and Beolagh hid in the Prince's coat pockets. To the others in the car she could have been following a circling bluebottle. I began circling the black monstrosity, barely skimming my hand on the surface. Show More Sentences Hundreds of couples wait in a line circling the block of San Francisco's City Hall. Also, look for any octave doublings or unisons, circling or otherwise marking them between the staves. The same hand scooped some of the water up and dribbled it around her, circling her body in an effort to protect herself from harm. Seen from space, an aurora appears as a ring of energy circling a planet's polar region. Then he turned the paraglider tightly, circling until the rapidly nearing roofs of Mayrhofen began to smear like wet paint across my sight. We tried to get them away from their weapons but they kept circling back to them. Sue, my wife, is taking a long run on the beach and then circling back to buy fresh shrimp for supper. The LBT will be used for everything from tracing the universe back to its origins to trying to capture visual images of planets circling distant suns. As soon as they learned of his arrest, the media vultures started circling. Having sufficiently wet ourselves, we viewers are left with a chilling, black-and-white image of blood circling the shower drain. They envisioned warriors lost in battle, and women who died in childbirth, as honored spirits, circling the sun like hummingbirds. It brings to mind one of those nature documentaries, where the wounded water buffalo desperately tries to fend off the hyenas circling in for the kill. At one point, John Woo was circling to direct it, but then the big divorce happened with Miramax and Disney, and it went away. Preflight mission planning defines waypoints using GPS and specifies particular maneuvers, such as circling, by making annotations with a pen on a digital map. He immediately went into the circling routine, feeling the material of my jacket and after a lot of tut tutting rebuked me for my cheap shoes which didn't match my suit. The cries of circling gulls add to the eerie sense of remoteness. When declared operational in 1964, Transit consisted of five satellites in offset polar orbits circling the Earth at an altitude of about 670 miles. I sighed against his mouth, my arms circling round his neck. A police helicopter circling overhead drew attention to the scene. A shallow trench took us to a forward observation post, a sandbagged nest with binoculars and links to the unmanned aerial vehicles circling overhead. Show More Sentences Few questions, no matter how fun and silly, go by without circling back to their accomplishments or future projects. She was indeed already circling them, like a shark scenting spilled blood. Santiago sees a man-of-war bird circling in the sky ahead of him. Around noon I saw several hundred rooks circling upward in a thermal. While I was observing a dense mass of postlarval bigeyes circling a night light in the Bahamas, some gray snappers arrived on the scene and began to prey upon the small fish. Leo was circling Junta, picking up the remnants that were littered around him, salvaging the unbroken glasses and sweeping away the remaining fragments. Even those young evangelicals who still have qualms about gay marriage can find friends outside the wagon circling. The mahout bowed to the Goddess, hands arched in the gesture of namaskar, then began circling the shrine followed by the cymbal-clashers and the trumpet blowers. She gave his hand a squeeze and him a gentle smile before circling around. His class time was spent with worksheets, circling words that rhymed and identifying letters of the alphabet with memory games. Endris Abtu often watches the huge flesh-eating carrion crows circling over the parched crop fields and distant hilltops around his village in south Wollo. The sharks were circling me slowly in the dark, murky water. It's frustrating to see players get near the green in regulation, then start circling it to the right, clanking a bunch of chip shots off the hosel. It was a stand off now, the two circling each other as they panted, short of breath, and sweat gleamed on their foreheads, dirt smeared across their faces. As she reaches a point where the slope steepens slightly, she is airborne, joining the dozen parapentes and hang gliders that are already visible circling above the town. With a hovercraft on hand and a helicopter circling above it was very impressive stuff, but was it necessary to deploy this large array of resources? She pointed to two cats that were circling each other, starting to hiss. Ava's thinking is like a wheel spinning, circling back on itself. She keeps circling back to a few events, a few places, all from childhood. The offspring of the Manhattan Project are circling back toward Manhattan. Show More Sentences There was a loud clash of steel on steel as the swords collided, sparks exploding into being, before both warriors pulled away, circling each other warily. Kentis elects not to use artificial lighting, so the only time we see the characters is when a flash of lightning illuminates them and the sharks that are circling them. The doors close as soon as Jewel is clear, and the inertialess transport quickly jets away from the building, circling around the city center and out over the desert. Heading south on Highway 45 just outside of Huntsville, the Death Capitol of Texas, one might see vultures circling the dark piney woods that surround the little town. You become fish bait to the school of piranhas circling around. Weird algae bloomed in the seas, and strange warm-water beasts, such as Portuguese men-of-war and man-eating sharks, were said to be circling our shores. Filmy insects were circling the dusty plant on his desk, their transparent wings fluttering in the lamplight, and rain was trickling down the blue wall. Gigliotti stationed two officers with a measuring pole atop the ship winged funnel and, with help from helicopters circling overheard, guided the boat under the bridge. His legs are racing forward like two horses pulling a runaway carriage and his arms circling outward in the air like two sailors tied to the mast of sinking ship. As I write, the skies are echoing not with the beating of angelic wings but with the rotating blades of surveillance helicopters circling noisily overhead. Cowboys rarely, if ever, ate pasta and Italy's history, while rich and storied, is bereft of tales of cattle rustlers, gunslingers and homesteaders circling the wagons. That's nothing compared to this,'' Wolfe said, his eyes circling a playroom at Shriners Hospital for Children in downtown Los Angeles Wednesday. Complete the table by circling the odd bod in each set and giving a reason for your choice. When circling overhead, the white underwing of the bird becomes conspicuous. The term kettle refers to a group of raptors wheeling or circling in a thermal. The show opens with him in bed and angels circling above while a Felliniesque crowd dashes across the theater-in-the-round. It sometimes soars, circling to considerable heights, but not as often as the stork. Footage from above when Kim was found shows a hammerhead shark circling in the water beside him. It is the first time scientists have confirmed the existence of a planet circling double stars. Mars Orbiter Spacecraft is now circling the Red Planet in an orbit with a periareion of 311 km and an apoareion of 71,311 km. Show More Sentences It is easy to picture the scene in motion and envision the cookie-cutter houses circling in lazy eddies, bumping into each other gently. The hawks are always circling and the birds themselves can be incalculably cruel. This is establishment thinking, circling the wagons around yes-men and punishing anyone that dares to take a stand for good public policy. When astronomers caught sight of a mysterious titanium white object circling around the Earth in 2006, they assumed it was a spent rocket. The loan sharks will be circling, waiting to pick up customers who can't find legitimate lenders. The genus name Circus is derived from Ancient Greek kirkos, meaning 'circle', referring to a bird of prey named for its circling flight. In a move reminiscent of the Bacchants descending on Pentheus, the villagers emerge from the alleys like scavengers circling for carrion. The Cabot Trail, circling the Cape Breton Highlands, and Trunk 19, along the island's western coast, are important secondary roads. Even gay conservatives and contrarians are circling, licking their chops. Throw the shoe from behind the line, and try to get it to land circling or touching the far stake. Most power weaving took place in weaving sheds, in small towns circling Greater Manchester away from the cotton spinning area. Haye beat Valuev in a reserved display of accuracy and efficiency, countering Valuev's misses, jabbing and circling his much larger opponent. After circling around the temple once or three times, the procession halts in front of the closed doors. With television helicopters circling above, Perez got out of the passenger door and walked backward to the bridge railing with one boy at his side. In January 1984, seven were seen from the air circling, holding the flippers, and ramming a fin whale in the Gulf of California, but the observation ended at nightfall. Stakeholders in the household and personal care industry are circling the wagons to refute findings in a paper co-written by the Silent Spring Institute. It had been used for clownish mock-disappearences, one auguste looking for another through endlessly circling blackness, an apparatus not now much in use. Three girls moved across the billiard-table lawn of a great manor house, circling and swarming about a common center of gravity like gamboling sparrows. Our emergency medical services are, nonetheless, circling the drain. Radiation belts have been found circling all the planets in the Solar System that have a strong magnetic field, namely Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune, and Earth. Show More Sentences Such a large temperature difference indicates the planet's atmosphere absorbs and reradiates sunlight so fast that gas circling around it cools off quickly. Another 16 years of circling over London in dangerous holding patterns waiting to land at one of the most expensive and congested airports in the world? The television production sector is circling the pan in this region due to underinvestment and we cannot allow another 10-year charter to pass without addressing it. The Sara frantically respotted fighters for launch, even while Fletcher and Kinkaid warily tracked the suspected enemy group circling to the southwest. Examples from Classical Literature Should he bear to right or left in circling the edge of the caliche on his hunt for the footprints? So that we have in the circling electro-magnetic Aether currents a physical explanation for the hodograph of any planet. Soon he bent his muscular shoulders to the oars, and the ripples circling from each stroke hardly disturbed the calm panuco. He was circling on the trail of the stallion, with cunning intent of ambush. Finally the plane finished its circling, winging its way toward the horizon. But now fatigue a little deadened him to that incessancy of life, it seemed now just an eternal circling. The planetoid was turning under him, which made the ship appear to be circling slowly around his worksite. Finally I had him within twenty feet circling around me, tired and loggy, yet still strong enough to require careful handling. A boat was circling round and round helplessly some way beyond the diving board. Under great emotional excitement the auric flames move around in swift circling whirlpools, or else swirl away from a centre. It was proceeding slowly and seemed to be circling about us without approaching. A speed boat from one of the yachts kept circling the Polly, carrying a creaming smother of water under its upcocked bow. Just beyond the orchard the roads forked, a well-travelled branch circling to the left, and disappearing over the edge of a hill. An estrada is simply a path leading from one hevea tree to another and circling back to camp. We turned to the right, circling at a stately pace about the rather mean obelisk which stands at the entrance to the Prado. A flock of gulls were circling low, perhaps over a school of tuna. You forget who you are and where you come from when you are in the presence of God, circling the Kaaba in a two-piece, unstitched attire. They were circling the white mountain, ascending its lower slope. This term describes a class of circling displays common among gallinaceous birds. She began to be bewitched by the continuous circling round the bandstand. Show More Sentences Every hour in the day he indulges in his circling, billowy flight. He ran a short distance away from us, circling our cavalcade. Eudorus was up immediately and was circling around and around again. Grant hesitated, circling erratically with his victim close to the steps. A bird with a broken wing was beating the air above, reeling, fluttering, circling disabled down, down to the water. Stand forth distinguish'd from the circling crowd, Ye who by skill or manly force may claim, Your rivals to surpass and merit fame. Weeds and flowers spring from its massy arches and its circling seats, and vines hang their fringes from its lofty walls. The shepherd dog had taken his tail in his mouth and was circling slowly. Often in the himalaya I have watched an eagle circling overhead. The building rose from an island in the circling stream, so that this formed a perfect moat spanned by a two-arched bridge without a parapet. A tiny puff of smoke had been circling the harbour, and now was bearing southwards towards them over the black and the gold. Next day they fell in with more sails, all circling slowly from the east northerly towards the west. Scarcely had I disentangled him than he raised his head high in air and commenced circling about at the edge of the forest. The team circling the flonker dance around him while the man in the middle attempts to hit them with the dwile by flinging it off the driveller. The wind came now in fierce bursts, and the snow was driven with fury as it swept upon us in circling eddies. Slowly she swung from her course, circling back toward us in an erratic and pitiful manner. And to this day, if you find a hawthorn tree, you might see the king's fairy ring circling around it. At my movement the beast veered off a bit and commenced circling us. Almost instantly they turned and began circling the boma, their eyes turning constantly toward the firelight, while low, throaty growls evidenced their increasing displeasure. Then, in the intermittent darknesses, I saw the moon spinning swiftly through her quarters from new to full, and had a faint glimpse of the circling stars. Show More Sentences McNally's plays give the sense of both taking place now and circling today like a beam searching for answers to some of life's knottiest problems. The five dwellings, the five ateliers and the large workshop building are clearly separated volumes strung in a loose row circling the hill's crest. Find more words! 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What is the opposite of circling? Words that rhyme with circling What is the plural of circling? What is the adverb for circling? What is the adjective for circling? What is the noun for circling? Use our Sentence Generator Nearby Words circlet circles circle of friends circled circle back circle circling back circs circuit circuit board circuit breaker circuit-breaker 8-letter Words Starting With c ci cir circ circl circli circlin