Sentence Examples

1. She had built this wall long ago and walked its twenty-mile circumference so many times she had lost count, but it felt different now.
2. Here is a billet of wood, the circumference of which is about that of the throat.
3. Inspecting the statue first, the wizard turned and began making his slow way around the circumference of the entire sanctuary as if he was methodically searching for something.
4. By the looks of things, they had moved about a mile around the circumference of the Tower.
5. When he had made a full circumference, he returned to stand motionlessly over Tarkyn, looking down at him.
6. There were more of these turrets scattered around the circumference of the edge, but only this one was inhabited now.
7. This declivity of the upper surface, from the circumference to the center, is the natural cause why all the dews and rains which fall upon the island are conveyed in small rivulets towards the middle, where they are emptied into four large basins, each of about half a mile in circuit, and two hundred yards distant from the center.
8. As the green and bronze rays swept more and more quickly around the circumference, the thrumming became louder and higher in pitch until Waterstone imagined he could almost hear the earth screaming.
9. They continued to walk around the Ring, following the spots of light that mapped its circumference.
10. But Phileas Fogg, who was not travelling, but only describing a circumference, took no pains to inquire into these subjects he was a solid body, traversing an orbit around the terrestrial globe, according to the laws of rational mechanics.