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  • The room is arranged in concentric circles.  (source)
    concentric = having a common center
  • Blue concentric circles appeared around the waist.†  (source)
  • And like mist, she can fade into the backdrop, all of her disappearing except the concentric circles of her lock-and-load eyes.†  (source)
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  • He drove in a wide circle around the trampled site, and then moved inward, driving in decreasing concentric circles until he finally came to the place in the field where the little othnielians had been.†  (source)
  • Ahistorical, pre-sexual, in suspension between the archaic and the modern, we were as susceptible and impressionable as the drinking water that stood in a bucket in our scullery: every time a passing train made the earth shake, the surface of that water used to ripple delicately, concentrically, and in utter silence.†  (source)
  • I began shoveling into the softer snow underneath, expanding the excavated area in a concentric spiral as I dug deeper.†  (source)
  • Shelves lined with red crepe paper which was now faded and torn and concentrically spotted.†  (source)
  • Given the frequency of street lamps on major roads, he could easily identify the Boulevard and Garden Rings—those concentric circles at the center of which was the Kremlin and beyond which was all of Russia.†  (source)
  • The village sat peacefully in the valley, glimmering with the brightly colored homes leading concentrically to the great Thrall.†  (source)
  • The girl looked uncertain as she eyed the concentric arcs of the nautilus spiral.†  (source)
  • In cross-section it consisted of two concentric walls: the wet, slightly rough outer wall, so vibrantly green, and an inner wall midway between the outer wall and the core of the algae.†  (source)
  • FADE IN: Concentric colorful circles and hurdy-gurdy music: A hustling, bustling CARTOON CITY comes alive on the screen.†  (source)
  • Through squinted eyes I look into the clouds—heavy, dark, ominous—swirling in small concentric circles and, in the center, the center I'm trying mightily to reach, a face begins to form.†  (source)
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