Similar words: encircle, encircled, circlet, circle, encircling, full circle, semicircle, inner circle. Meaning: adv. without making progress.
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1. The discussion kept going round in circles.
2. I seem to have been running round in circles all day and yet I've got no progress to show for it.
3. The huge wolfhound danced in circles around his mistress.
4. The planets move in circles round the sun.
5. My father always goes round in circles when he tries to show me how to do my homework.
6. He often talks in circles, frequently contradicting himself and often ends up saying nothing.
7. The two cats walked in circles around each other, sizing each other up.
8. I've been running round in circles trying to get all the reports finished before the meeting.
9. Peter's been running round in circles since half his department resigned.
10. Going round in circles Meetings are infamous for getting stuck and going round in circles.
11. This follows the success of Richard Long:Walking in Circles, which will be reissued in 1993.
12. I had a tendency to run around in circles getting more and more worked up.
13. For I appear to be going round in circles in answer to a question which has been worrying me for some time.
14. Running around in circles and seeing the same old thing defeats half the purpose.
15. Their charm and informality immediately won many hearts in circles high and low.
16. We drove round in circles for an hour and now we're back in the Butcher Building.
17. We've argued this point for nearly two hours and we're just going round in circles.
18. He seemed to be working hard, but was just running round in circles.
19. No, I haven't finished that job yet — I seem to have spent the whole morning going round in circles, getting nowhere!
20. He has a theory about why dogs walk round in circles before going to sleep.
21. It is gold with vivid garnet eyes and when wound up runs around in circles.
22. Horses kept in small yards by themselves develop repetitive patterns of abnormal behaviour, such as whirling in circles and chasing their tails.
23. Working towards a goal gives you a direction in life. Without goals, you keep running in circles. Dr Roopleen 
24. It does not take much imagination to appreciate what that means in terms of wandering round in circles.
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25. The station was only round a few corners - I must have walked round in circles the day before.
26. Will look silly if I have to spend time driving around in circles to find it.
27. That's why there are no solutions and the characters endlessly go around in circles in discussions.
28. Arrange kiwi slices on top of the filling, overlapping in circles.
29. His greater strength over mine would have sent the boat turning round and round in circles.
30. A few follow gracefully some yards behind, dancing in ever-widening curves, waltzing in circles at the curbs.
More similar words: encircle, encircled, circlet, circle, encircling, full circle, semicircle, inner circle, traffic circle, vicious circle, circling, in circulation, circe, circa, circus, circuit, circular, circulate, circadian, circumvent, circumcise, circuitous, circumflex, recirculate, circumspect, circulation, steer clear of, semicircular, circumstance, short circuit.