Dictionary Entry

circling

To travel around along a curved path.

In a Sentence

“The wolves circled the herd of deer.”

Origin

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Common Phrases

around circlinground circling. circlingover circlingcircling began

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Poetry examples for “circling”

Excerpts from the ReadingWillow English Library collection.

Exposed through crystal to the gazing eyes,
And heighten'd by the diamond's circling rays,
On that rapacious hand for ever blaze?

Birds, after carrion,
Careening and circling,
Over the dying

And be not over proud to put aside
The due consolements of the circling years.
What comes, receive; be not too wise for God.

Then the boys circled me. “Your turn now!” They kept circling and as
they did I kept turning. There were always some of them behind me. Here

Lo! they are one. With wifely breast to breast
And circling arms, she welcomes all command
Of love,--her soul to answering ardours fann'd:

The Saint of Poverty to greet.
He passed. And then a circling thrill,
As water troubled which was still,

To hide the prospect of the following eye
Its only bondage was the circling sky
One mighty flat undwarfed by bush and tree

But earth unbidden shall produce her store;
The land shall laugh, the circling ocean smile,
And Heaven's indulgence bless the holy isle.

He quits the woods, and tries the beaten ways;
He starts, he pants, he takes the circling maze.
At length his silly head, so priz’d before,

Full well the busy whisper, circling round,