Sample sentences for CIRCUMFERENCE

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the boundary or the length of the boundary around a circle

Rudy's favorite Hitler Youth field had an enormous bowl spooned out of it. Half the town stood around its circumference.
Markus Zusak -- The Book Thief

circumference = the boundary around a circle

A crowd materialized around every square inch of Hubert Oval's circumference.
Markus Zusak -- The Book Thief

circumference = the boundary around a circle

In less than two years he has sailed as far as the entire circumference of the globe, and he has seen land but once.
Alexis de Toqueville -- Democracy In America, Volume 1
With each stir of the breeze another flurry would dislodge, littering the grass in wide circumference.
Nicholas Evans -- The Horse Whisperer
She was now halfway around the circumference, admiring every inch of Brumidi's The Apotheosis of Washington, which loomed directly over their heads.
Dan Brown -- The Lost Symbol
The table is just over thirteen feet in diameter, one hundred and thirty-five feet in circumference.
Tim O'Brien -- Going After Cacciato
THESEUS He is no crescent, and his horns are invisible within the circumference.
William Shakespeare -- A Midsummer Night's Dream
What, you weren't supposed to be able to rectify circumference, or turn any given straight line into a circle?
Thomas Mann -- The Magic Mountain
Patch crouched by the front tire, running his hand around the circumference.
Becca Fitzpatrick -- Hush, Hush
The circumference of the central chamber increased with each successive level.
Christopher Paolini -- Eragon
Twenty-nine kilometers in circumference.
John Ringo -- Live Free or Die
Here is a billet of wood, the circumference of which is about that of the throat.
Edgar Allan Poe -- The Murders in the Rue Morgue
The earth's circumference was 24,860 miles, and a day was twenty-four hours.
Scott Westerfeld -- The Secret Hour
Whatever the reason, something had disturbed the dream, something was whittling away the circumference of that hole in the paper through which he saw.
Stephen King -- Misery
That is the circumference that I try to grasp as we sit together.
Virginia Woolf -- The Waves
It was lying flat now, pointing toward the street, and Landis was untying a length of rope that had been looped around its circumference.
Anne Tayler -- A Spool of Blue Thread
The sky above the circumference of the jungle is tinged a uniform pink.
Suzanne Collins -- Catching Fire
The circumference is ever great.
Yann Martel -- Life of Pi
The test alone had caused the wheel to move one eighth of its circumference.
Erik Larson -- The Devil in the White City
During the days, he walked the circumference of the island and found nothing of interest—unless you liked beaches and endless sea in every direction.
Rick Riordan -- The House of Hades

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