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Example sentences for "wide circuit"

  • He made a wide circuit by the south, and again joined Van Dorn.

  • Although General Ord must have been within four or six miles of this battle, he did not hear a sound; and he or General Grant did not know of it till advised the next morning by a courier who had made a wide circuit to reach them.

  • This party of men remained there all day without burying the bodies, and at night, by a wide circuit, passed the mountain, and reached Williamson's camp.

  • And, for the heaven's wide circuit, let it speak The Maker's high magnificence, who built so spacious.

  • And for the heaven's wide circuit, let it speak The maker's high magnificence.

  • By making a wide circuit to the west, the Zulus, although they continued on the watch, might be avoided; but the mountain would have to be twice crossed before Hendricks could be reached, and it would be difficult to find him.

  • They stopped gazing in wonder and terror at the strangers, while the two Kaffirs, making a wide circuit, galloped on in the hope of cutting them off.

  • They had the advantage of the river on one side and the mountains on the other, so that the enemy could not come upon them without making a wide circuit.

  • She must keep on this side of the hill, make a wide circuit, and come in from the west.

  • He made a wide circuit, but his long, easy stride carried him swiftly over the ground.

  • Again, in a wide circuit in order not to meet anybody who might be riding from the camp to the herd, the Ranger moved forward warily.

  • Meanwhile the two boats left their hiding-place among the rushes, rowed first directly southward out upon the lake, and then by making a wide circuit to avoid pursuit, intended to turn toward Arbor.

  • Cautiously as the fox stealing after the mouse, I crept on all fours through the thickest rushes nearer to the land, in the direction of the hut, but making a wide circuit.

  • I often hear it as you hurry past our home, avoiding the house by taking a wide circuit.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    also their; broad flat; cannot bear; college girls; color line; having passed; her uncle; neutral vessel; political agent; wide awake; wide berth; wide circle; wide circuit; wide distribution; wide enough; wide expanse; wide fame; wide field; wide geographical; wide reputation; wide variety; widely different; widely known; widely separated; widely spread; widely used