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Example sentences for "circle round"

  • By their chief's orders they drew nearer and formed a circle round me.

  • Here I majestically traced a circle round me with my wand, and pronounced, in a low voice, certain magic spells.

  • At our request, Ookooma, who appears to possess considerable authority, made the whole crowd, chiefs and all, sit down on the grass in a circle round us.

  • While we were endeavouring to make ourselves understood, the other boats gradually separated, and began to form a circle round us.

  • On May-Day in Ireland all the young men and maidens hold hands, and dance in a circle round a tree hung with ribbons or garlands, or round a bonfire, moving in curves from left to right, as if imitating the windings of a serpent.

  • On May Day, in Ireland, all the young men and maidens hold hands and dance in a circle round a tree hung with ribbons and garlands, or round a bonfire, moving in curves from right to left, as if imitating the windings of a serpent.

  • They then join hands and stand in a circle round it.

  • They then carry Jenny Jones to a corner, lay her down, stand in a circle round, and sing to her the last verse.

  • The Lincolnshire game is played by the children walking two and two in a circle round one of their companions, singing.

  • Bowing in the most dignified manner to the Prodigal Son and ourselves, they squatted in a circle round us, keeping their eyes fixed on my chum's yellow hair and blue eyes--in evident admiration.

  • Upon reviewing their track from the vessel, they perceived, that, instead of ascending the hill in a line, so as to penetrate into the country, they had made almost a circle round it.

  • We lay by to receive them, and they were very soon ranged in a circle round us.

  • On seeing this, he sat down on the sand, made a circle round him, as he had seen our people do, and signified that the other was not to come within it; which was accordingly observed.

  • After we had spent some time on the beach, as we complained of the heat, Attago immediately conducted and seated us under the shade of a tree, ordering the people to form a circle round us.

  • The floor was laid with mats, on which we were seated, and the people seated themselves in a circle round us on the outside.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    assist them; circle around; circle round; commonly supposed; fine looking; for she; forked branch; good day; just plain; little birds; never expected; protection from; reach home; said commission; sized tree; small girl; soon after; three sections; upper half; votes against; wait until; who never; wholly different