Example Sentences

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Our Sunday walk is when we catch up on personal and family stuff and what is circling around in our world.

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 11, 2024

The Pac-12 is staggering, the Big 12 is circling, and one school sits in the crosshairs.

From Seattle Times • Jul. 31, 2023

It's like this ebb and flow, and then rumination as that anxiety is circling.

From Salon • Apr. 13, 2023

Vice Media, previously on the hook for big payments to one of its investors, the private equity giant TPG, is circling a plan to go public, according to three people with knowledge of Vice Media.

From New York Times • Jul. 27, 2021

I am pondering this sad fact when I realize the blackness of sleep is circling my head.

From "Water for Elephants" by Sara Gruen