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Example sentences for "large circle"

  • While few women have had more sincere and lasting friendships, or a more extensive correspondence with a large circle of noble men, yet I doubt if one of them can boast of having received from her any exceptional attention.

  • With frequent visits to a large circle of friends and relatives in various towns and cities, the monotony of home life was sufficiently broken to make our simple country pleasures always delightful and enjoyable.

  • The wife belonged to one of the first families of New York, her brother being a United States senator, and the husband, also, a man of position; a large circle of friends and acquaintances was interested in the result.

  • She was a very refined, attractive woman, and a large circle of warm friends stood by her through the fierce ordeal of her husband's trial.

  • Her loss will be deplored by a large circle of personal friends, and by the still larger number of those who knew her only through her writings.

  • As a man, he possessed many attractive social qualities and was beloved by a large circle of friends.

  • The match should be played on a soft grass-plot within a large circle, enclosed with ropes.

  • Bases, called posting-stations, are formed at regular distances, in a large circle or ellipse, and at each base a player is stationed.

  • Any ingenious youth may amuse and astonish a large circle of friends with an exhibition of dancing puppets, as the different figures are not difficult to construct, and their motions are very easily managed.

  • Under this head we describe those shows which may be exhibited by any ingenious youth for the amusement of a large circle of friends.

  • The deaf-mutes understood all but the sign for wheel, which they make as a large circle, with one hand.

  • As he is a Cheyenne, however, he may not have a large circle of feminine acquaintances beyond his own tribe, and his negative testimony is not valuable.

  • With wings outspread, tip to tip, they moved up and down in a large circle.

  • Indian tribe: their camp ground, their teepees in a large circle, and the people laughing and dancing.

  • Here seated in a large circle, the people were assembled, the proud chieftain rose with the little baby in his arms.

  • A long flexible shoot swept a large circle, following the sun, in 5 hrs.

  • The course pursued was very irregular, namely, an extremely narrow ellipse, a large circle, an irregular spire or a zigzag line, and sometimes the apex stood still.

  • A young, inclined shoot (the plant being in the greenhouse) made a large circle opposed to the course of the sun in 4 hrs.

  • Maurice, Bookseller and Printer, Market Place, an energetic adherent to the Unitarian cause in this town, and much respected by a large circle of friends.

  • Midway between the gander poles a large circle is marked upon the ground, its size being determined by the number playing.

  • Fox Trail [Illustration] A large circle is drawn upon the ground.

  • To simplify matters we would suggest that those who have a large circle of friends to whom they rejoice to give presents retain over to another year the list made the year previous.

  • Never awkwardly drag a newcomer around to every person in a large circle.

  • I spent a week with the girl, getting my meals from the inn, and enjoying a diversity of pleasures which I shall remember all my days; my young wanton had a large circle of female friends, all pretty and all kind.

  • I found the duchess in the midst of a large circle, and she told me kindly that she was very sorry to hear of my losses.

  • When I told him that I had only gone to Russia to amuse myself and see good company, he immediately concluded that my aims in coming to Poland were of the same kind; and he told me that he could introduce me to a large circle.

  • General Post The players sit round the room in a large circle, and, after appointing a postmaster to write down their names and call out the changes, choose each a town.

  • The players sit round it in a large circle, each choosing either a number by which to be known, or the name of a town.

  • The advantage of standing in a large circle is that the hoop need never be checked; but if the circle is impossible, you can go up and down a long line, with checks only at each end.

  • Private theatricals amuse a large circle of friends, and any club willing to undertake the presentation of plays deserves the thanks of the audience.

  • The four gentlemen advance and give right hands to partners and left hands to next lady, and make a large circle.

  • You then take a cane and draw a large circle, and at the same time repeat any absurd jingle or formula of words; then pretend to call up some ancient spirit, and by your raps on the floor tell your confederate your first letter.

  • A large circle of people may be made to yawn by simply opening and closing the fingers slowly.

  • While thus absent, he wrote a series of interesting letters, which were published in the Mirror and American, and read with pleasure by a large circle of acquaintances.

  • Their "silver wedding" was observed in 1877, and was honored by a large circle of friends.

  • He enjoyed the confidence of a large circle of families, and his success as a physician had given him an enviable reputation.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "large circle" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.


    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    certain forms; large building; large bunch; large bundle; large cities; large collection; large company; large crown; large degree; large diameter; large element; large groups; large hall; large majority; large pond; large portion; large proportion; large quantity; large sections; large share; large spoon; large tablespoonful; large variety; largely composed; largely developed; light thing