circle round

Verb

Meaning

move around in a circular motion

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Examples

Genius, all over the world, stands hand in hand, and one shock of recognition runs the whole circle round. Herman Melville

The mind petrifies if a circle be drawn around it, and it can hardly be denied that dogma draws a circle round the mind. George Moore (novelist)

Instead of boiling up individuals into the species, I would draw a chalk circle round every individuality, and preach to it to keep within that, and preserve and cultivate its identity. Jane Welsh Carlyle

[T]he evil of it is that it is a world wrapped up in too much jeweller's cotton and fine wool, and cannot hear the rushing of the larger worlds, and cannot see them as they circle round the sun. It is a deadened world, and its growth is sometimes unhealthy for want of air. Charles Dickens

Suffering is one very long moment. We cannot divide it by seasons. We can only record its moods, and chronicle their return. With us time itself does not progress. It revolves. It seems to circle round one centre of pain. Oscar Wilde

The Earth revolves around the Sun Source: Internet

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