Semicircle in a sentence

Slices of kanpachi crudo are fanned in a semicircle like a perpetual Tilt-a-Whirl, while an amuse bouche that resembles a whole black truffle is actually a charcoal-dusted gougère stuffed with truffle-scented Mornay sauce.

The Earth Week Team arranged booths for organizations in a semicircle around UC Santa Cruz’s West Field and set up a stage for two on-campus bands, Kadence Keys and Quadroon and the Goons.

But a straight line is not a wide enough route, and a semicircle is wider than it needs to be — we can be more efficient in our submarine-avoidance tactics.

At the start of the game, the cue ball (white) may be placed anywhere in the semicircle, known as the "D".

Depending on the ball carrier's location, the goalie is positioned along that semicircle roughly a meter out of the goal to reduce the attacker's shooting angle.

He then estimated his distance from Whitefield and calculated the area of a semicircle centred on Whitefield.

In contrast both ancient Greek and ancient Roman theatres were built in a semicircle, with tiered seating rising on one side of the performance area.

Note in particular: *de Rhodes' system has two different b letters, a regular b and a "hooked" b in which the upper section of the curved part of the b extends leftward past the vertical bar and curls down again in a semicircle.

Taken together, I-275 and I-696 form a semicircle around Detroit.

The amount of repulsion may be read off the graduated semicircle, though it is obvious that the measured angle is not in direct proportion to the charge.

The British-based system has the different groups directly facing each other while the French-based system is a semicircle (and the traditional German system had all members in rows facing a rostrum for speeches).

The cars at point B would continue on rollers around a semicircle and then reverse the process carrying passengers back to point A. The initial installation was to be the 42nd Street Shuttle in New York City between Times Square and Grand Central station.

The centre of the city is a long strip of commercial businesses, called the Mall, with a semicircle-shaped area of government offices to the west of the Mall.

The semicircle of stars near the bottom left is the neighboring constellation Corona Borealis Besides Pulcherrima and Alkalurops, there are several other binary stars in Boötes: * Xi Boötis is a quadruple star popular with amateur astronomers.

The seventh line consists of all the diagonal points (usually drawn as a circle or semicircle).

The two lunes formed from a right triangle by erecting a semicircle on each of the triangle's sides, inward for the hypotenuse and outward for the other two sides, are known as the lunes of Alhazen ; they have the same total area as the triangle itself.

The world was represented as a land disc surrounded by the Ocean and divided in three parts: Asia (upper semicircle), Europe (lower left quadrant) and Africa (lower right quadrant).

This port was constructed in a semicircle with two moles and a lighthouse at its mouth.

This semicircle of residential development was the main area of settlement until after the Second World War, and marks a distinct phase in the city's expansion, the outer boundary to this zone being the effective limit of the continuous built-up area.

While the term "quadrant electrometer" eventually referred to Kelvin's version, this term was first used to describe a simpler device. citation It consists of an upright stem of wood, to which is affixed to a semicircle of ivory.