The pin is 3 1∕4 inches long, nearly circular in section, expanding into a head much like that of a common screw, and tapering off to a sharp point.
The city, nearly circular in shape, is surrounded on three sides by walls, has a circuit of nearly eight miles, and is entered by fourteen gates.
Rising but a few feet above the surface of the ocean, it forms a narrow, unbroken, nearly circular ring, surrounding a central lagoon of quiet water.
The orbits of the old planets are so nearly circular, and at such a great distance apart, that there is no danger of their interfering with each other.
The paths of the planets around the sun being nearly circular, we are able to see a planet in every part of its orbit.
The ellipses of the planets have been and always will be nearly circular.
Of the second description is a black one with very fine and nearly circular meshes: the threads that form these are thick, and seem to be agglutinated.
Leaves of the involucre broadly obovate to nearly circular, widest near or above the middle =Spurge, Euphorbia helioscopia.
Stem-leaves obovate to nearly circular, not more than twice as long as wide (1-4 dm.
Leaves broadly ovate to nearly circular, frequently cordate at the base, and always palmately veined or lobed --20.
Ring pentagonal or nearly circular, regular, connected with the central chamber by five radial beams of equal length and at equal distances (72d); therefore all five chambers of the ring of equal size and similar form.
Arms twice as long as broad, in their distal half lenticular, nearly circular, twice as broad as in their square proximal half; their distal breadth equals the diameter of the central disk, which exhibits three to four rings.
Cooked food is generally served in large shallow trays more or less neatly carved from driftwood and nearly circular or oblong in shape.
A strip of whalebone 41/4 inches wide is bent round a nearly circular bottom of cottonwood so as to form a small tub.
That fearful missile would sweep right round the earth in a nearly circular orbit, and return to where it started in about four weeks.
By the mutual adaptations of their orbits to a nearly circular form, to a nearly coincident plane, and to a uniformity of direction, a permanent truce has been effected among the great planets.
The motion of the satellite of Neptune is nearly circular.
Test of adult female oval, nearly circular, black in colour, divided into hexagonal and pentagonal segments which are not conspicuous, and of which the median series forms a very slightly elevated ridge somewhat lighter in colour.
The eccentricities would finally disappear, and the entire mass would revolve in a nearly circular orbit.
Had the orbit of Mars chanced to be as nearly circular as is that of Venus, Kepler might well have been driven to abandon his search for the true curve of planetary motion.
Broad oval to nearly circular, very slightly flattened, extremities slightly pointed, embryo within one edge near the base, a fine network of dark lines evident under a good lens.
The shaft is nearly circular in cross section and tapers to a point for one half its length.
The handle is oval or nearly circular in cross section, and slightly larger at the top where there is no knob or perforation as in the typical club of this type.
Not far from this geyser is an elegantly scalloped spring, nearly circular, twenty-five feet in diameter, and with vertical sides to an unknown depth.
One of them has a basin twenty feet in diameter, nearly circular in form, and the contents have almost the consistency of thick hasty-pudding.
The two horizontal rings, which become connected by the four divergent columellae, are the smaller mitral ring and the larger basal ring; both are either square or nearly circular.
Two horizontal rings smooth, elliptical or nearly circular, of equal size, connected by two vertical, slightly curved columellae, which are about as long as the radius of the rings.
Therefore the frontal perimeter of the shell is nearly circular.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "nearly circular" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
