Synonyms

1. hemicycle

Sentence Examples

1. Cap, Lena, Styles, and Ravenwood were gathered in a semicircle around him.
2. After several minutes, they stood up and gathered in a large semicircle with Tarkyn at its centre.
3. I followed Anahita to the other end of the square where we stepped onto a road paved in cobblestones that led toward a semicircle of two-and three-story sandstone buildings.
4. Security guards dressed in dark uniforms and holding urban assault M-35s exited the vehicle and quickly fanned out in a semicircle about twenty-five meters across.
5. She lifted Defender to block his blow, felt the shock of steel on steel, whirled her sword in a semicircle and flicked upward and sideways.
6. She poured the water into one of several giant-clam shells placed in a semicircle at the end of the bathhouse and returned to the well several times until all the shells had been filled.
7. After making nearly a semicircle around the pond, they diverged from the water-course, and began to ascend to the level of a slight elevation in that bottom land, over which they journeyed.
8. The chains that held my left leg were about two yards long, and gave me not only the liberty of walking backwards and forwards in a semicircle, but being fixed within four inches of the gate, allowed me to creep in and lie at my full length in the temple.
9. Immediately at the feet of the party, the southern shore of the Horican swept in a broad semicircle from mountain to mountain, marking a wide strand, that soon rose into an uneven and somewhat elevated plain.
10. I was in a wide semicircle of moorland, with the brown river as radius, and the high hills forming the northern circumference.