amphitheatrical
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Under his guidance, Pete Dye produced the Stadium Course, with enormous natural grass spectator mounds that could accommodate thousands in amphitheatrical settings around the closing holes of each nine.
From Golf Digest ● Oct. 13, 2010
The congressmen met for a first get-together session in Harvard's Memorial Hall's fusty, amphitheatrical Sanders Theatre, with twilight filtering on them through stained glass.
From Time Magazine Archive
Night had already fallen; they nevertheless rode over half a mile, and halted only in a place where the ravine widened again into a small amphitheatrical vale, overgrown with dense thorns and prickly mimosa trees.
From In Desert and Wilderness by Sienkiewicz, Henryk
The most interesting field of these Swiss mountain falls is a high mountain valley of amphitheatrical form, known as the Diablerets, or the devil's own district.
From Outlines of the Earth's History A Popular Study in Physiography by Shaler, Nathaniel Southgate
About five miles distant in front, another line of cliff extends, which thus appears completely to encircle the valley; and hence the name of bay is justified, as applied to this grand amphitheatrical depression.
From The Voyage of the Beagle by Darwin, Charles
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