in circles

Idioms  

1. see go around in circles.

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Example Sentences

Dodger and Elwood ran in circles in their pen, heads and tails up, ears swiveling, eyes darting back and forth.

From Literature

This sounds obvious, she says, but many people “neglect to pause” and try to overcompensate, which causes them to talk in circles.

From MarketWatch

I have to sniff around in circles until I find where he left the heights in the trees and then follow him again until the scent disappears up yet another clump of trees.

From Literature

My heart was racing, and my mind was going in circles, trying to figure out what went wrong.

From Los Angeles Times

"We take advantage of a synthetic effective field that arises when a terahertz pulse drives ions in the crystal lattice in circles," explains lead author Zhiyang Zeng.

From Science Daily