The shape of the lawn was semicircular. From LearnThat.org.
Attached to the utricle are three tubes that start and end there, each bending in a semicircle so they are called semicircular canals. From Wordnik.com. [The Human Brain]
At the far end was a kind of semicircular nave with built-in benches, which reminded me of a sauna. From Wordnik.com. [Log of the Eclipse (11)] Reference
Thus the Giants 'Tombs of Sardinia all have a concave façade which forms a kind of semicircular court in front of the entrance to the tomb. From Wordnik.com. [Rough Stone Monuments and Their Builders] Reference
The granite headstones resemble rows of semicircular seats. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 16, No. 97, November, 1865] Reference
It was a semicircular recess in one of the thickets in the park. From Wordnik.com. [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference
On three sides was solid rock, forming a semicircular back to the room. From Wordnik.com. [Dave Dashaway and His Hydroplane] Reference
The roof of the nave is quadripartite, and that of the aisle semicircular. From Wordnik.com. [The South of France—East Half] Reference
Jagged holes in the semicircular iron roofing proved the wisdom of his precautions. From Wordnik.com. [Pushed and the Return Push] Reference
He sat at the piano while Lorelei leaned idly on the edge of the semicircular stage. From Wordnik.com. [Lips that Touch Liquor: The Gin Buck] Reference
From the semicircular chancel radiate 4 semicircular chapels, one being occupied by the organ. From Wordnik.com. [The South of France—East Half] Reference
The semicircular wall consists of five stages, and included accommodation for 6500 spectators. From Wordnik.com. [The South of France—East Half] Reference
Opposite them is the semicircular space for the spectators, with still many of the stone seats. From Wordnik.com. [The South of France—East Half] Reference
The old man seated himself in a hacked wooden chair with semicircular arms and a green cushion. From Wordnik.com. [Frontier Boys in Frisco] Reference
Two aisles with massive piers and semicircular arches (slightly stilted) are on each side of the nave. From Wordnik.com. [The South of France—East Half] Reference
Beyond an expanse of black, glassy floor, he saw a low semicircular table, behind which sat eight Lhari. From Wordnik.com. [The Colors of Space] Reference
A semicircular promenade, to the left, curves above the void; future office towers spin off to the right. From Wordnik.com. [A Tale Of Two Towers] Reference
The arches resting on them are semicircular, and are mostly in alternate layers of white and black marble. From Wordnik.com. [The South of France—East Half] Reference
While at meals, they reclined on sumptuous couches of a semicircular form, around a table of the same shape. From Wordnik.com. [Roman Antiquities, and Ancient Mythology For Classical Schools (2nd ed)] Reference
At the extremity is seen a semicircular room adorned with niches, and formerly with statues, mosaics, and marbles. From Wordnik.com. [Museum of Antiquity A Description of Ancient Life] Reference
Salamis, into which we were now sailing, is a deep inlet, surrounded by an amphitheatre of low semicircular hills. From Wordnik.com. [Journal of a Visit to Constantinople and Some of the Greek Islands in the Spring and Summer of 1833] Reference
The portal consists of a semicircular arch with 6 mouldings resting on four short columns with sculptured capitals. From Wordnik.com. [The South of France—East Half] Reference
The roof of the nave is semicircular, strengthened by three arches, the centre one springing from two round columns. From Wordnik.com. [The South of France—East Half] Reference
Soon I saw the semicircular lights of the harbour of Palermo, and in a short time the train steamed into the station. From Wordnik.com. [Fair Italy, the Riviera and Monte Carlo Comprising a Tour Through North and South Italy and Sicily with a Short Account of Malta] Reference
It contained a tomb built up in its center, covered by three stones as struts, over which was a semicircular arch of brick. From Wordnik.com. [Museum of Antiquity A Description of Ancient Life] Reference
Humans achieve balance thanks largely to three semicircular organs in the inner ear, each the size of a large hoop earring. From Wordnik.com. [Was Blind But Now I See] Reference
Between these towers are three semicircular recessed portals, below an entablature resting on two single and two double columns. From Wordnik.com. [The South of France—East Half] Reference
The arches are profusely enriched with mouldings; the walls above were pierced with a row of small windows with semicircular heads. From Wordnik.com. [Ely Cathedral] Reference
But the real meaning of the word “Tribuna” is the semicircular cavity at the extremity of a Roman basilica, where the judges sat. From Wordnik.com. [The South of France—East Half] Reference
Before it is a semicircular garden, and in front of this there is a round fenced-in plot, in the middle of which stands a flag-staff. From Wordnik.com. [The Philippine Islands] Reference
The great semicircular harbor reared its colossal pillars in a mighty curve flanked far out in the sea by massive towers of gray stone. From Wordnik.com. [The Coming of the King] Reference
In the peristyle is a semicircular fountain, on the margin of which were disposed several animals in bronze, representing a hunting scene. From Wordnik.com. [Museum of Antiquity A Description of Ancient Life] Reference
The cemetery is semicircular, in the form of an amphitheatre, except that the slope is reversed, the monument occupying the highest place. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 16, No. 97, November, 1865] Reference
Freyberg formed a semicircular trench around the far side of the new possession, and then they took time to see what had happened to the gallant little band. From Wordnik.com. [Some Naval Yarns] Reference
"Anglicum," which, although used for other purposes, such as altar-cloths and altar-frontals, found apparently its fullest scope in these large semicircular mantles. From Wordnik.com. [Chats on Old Lace and Needlework] Reference
They stopped near to the semicircular cage where the condors, in evening dress and white boa around the neck, surveyed the garden with the aloof manner of the higher aristocracy. From Wordnik.com. [Love at Paddington] Reference
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