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How to use the word circled in a Sentence?

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That water completely encompassed and circled the communities of Alpaugh and Allensworth.

Tulare County Sheriff Mike Boudreaux

Found on CNN
1 year ago

It is as if somebody came down with a magic marker and circled the states least equipped to deal with an abortion ban and with the largest percentage of their population falling into the most elevated risk categories, so, you are setting up a prescription for phenomenal effects in terms of maternal mortality, infant mortality, infant low birthweight, all of the risks that follow from these kinds of [ unplanned or unwanted ] pregnancies.

Sara Rosenbaum

Found on CNN
1 year ago

But the left circled the wagons around Goldberg.

Joe Rogan

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

One of the more contentious Byrd rule discussions that I participated in circled around a provision in the Affordable Care Act where we actually had written legal style briefs of the sort that you might see in a U.S. Court of Appeals.

Rohit Kumar

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

Everyone’s kind of had it circled and seen it out there, we’ve really tried to work hard on getting better. That’s been the emphasis — what can we improve on? The last two weeks, we’ve been trying to be ascending. We’ve tried to get some guys back healthy. And that’s going to be the focus this week — nobody trying to do more than they should.

Kirby Smart

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

You got to realize you’re down 21-0, i remember after throwing that pick, Coach Gus said, ‘We’re going to win this thing.’ And that just gave me confidence and it circled around. Just that belief that we built has been really showing.

Dillon Gabriel

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

This was a serious crime, mr. Bill Cosby, this has all circled back to you. The day has come, the time has come.

Montgomery County Judge Steven O'Neill

Found on CNN
5 years ago

It was obvious it was a person lying on their back, when we circled, both arms came up. It was a shock.

Bobby Smith

Found on FOX News
7 years ago

When we circled, both arms came up. It was a shock.

Bobby Smith

Found on FOX News
7 years ago

Has any historian sought to question why the wagonmaster of America's westward-bound pioneers 'circled' the wagons instead of 'squaring' or 'triangulating' them for a better defense strategy in fighting-off Indian raids on the plains:

Francis M. Faber Jr.

added by WerterBuch
8 years ago

It was circled with pillars, people could see it from the sea, from [the coastal city of] Jaffa.

Amit Re’em

Found on FOX News
8 years ago

From "The Undefeated". When facing down a group of bandito's, Wayne, the ex Union Colonel, opens fire and kills the leader. After retreating to the circled wagons, one of the women says "why did you have to kill the man?" Wayne responds "Well, the conversation just kinda dried up ma'am.

John Wayne

added by anonymous
9 years ago

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