Similar words: circlet, circle, encircle, in circles, encircled, semi-circle, full circle, semicircle. Meaning: adv. without making progress.
91. As the crankshaft rotates, the crankpin swings in a circle around the shaft.
92. Lot was not safe in Sodom though in a circle of friends.
93. We all joined hands and danced round in a circle.
94. Let us think of an electron as a wave extending in a circle around the nucleus.
More similar words: circlet, circle, encircle, in circles, encircled, semi-circle, full circle, semicircle, dress circle, inner circle, great circle, encirclement, arctic circle, come full circle, traffic circle, vicious circle, winner's circle, antarctic circle, circling, encircling, air cleaner, racing circuit, pertinacity, pertinacious, pertinaciously, in a cleft stick, circ, circa, circe, circum-.