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cir·cling
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circlingnoun
A circular motion.
Samuel Johnson's Dictionary
Circlingparticipial adj.
Having the form of a circle; circular; round.
Etymology: from To circle.
Round he surveys, and well might, where he stood
So high above the circling canopy
Of night’s extended shade. John Milton, Paradise Lost, b. iii.
Webster Dictionary
Circling
of Circle
Numerology
Chaldean Numerology
The numerical value of circling in Chaldean Numerology is: 3
Pythagorean Numerology
The numerical value of circling in Pythagorean Numerology is: 3
Examples of circling in a Sentence
I saw a military jet circling three times. People have abandoned their vehicles on the road and gone home.
Blake Wheeler and Drew Stafford:
It starts with Pav in net making some unbelievable saves, there seemed to be a couple times we were circling the wagons in our own end. On special teams he was able to stop the play, kill the play, and we were able to catch our breath, get a little bit of that momentum back.
As we got closer to the first island, I heard birds circling. I thought they were vultures looking for bodies to eat.
California isn't circling the drain because it’s too big to govern. The state is a basket case because ruling Democrats have an unquenchable thirst for emptying the prisons, enabling an exploding homeless population and jacking up every imaginable tax, since the 1990s the state and its voters have drifted far to the left.
The news of another planet found circling a white dwarf is exciting, offering additional proof that planets exist around dead stars after our paper last year reported on the first one ever found.
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