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the boundary or the length of 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
- A circle of a few hundred feet in circumference was drawn, and each of the party took a segment for his portion.James Fenimore Cooper -- The Last of the Mohicans
- Some flew like radiant meteors round, lighted up the mighty circumference and displayed, as by a magician's wand, a sparkling glittering roof.Johann Wyss -- The Swiss Family Robinson