WordNet
adv. without making progress; "the candidates talked in circles" [syn: in circles]
Usage examples of "in a circle".
The elf held her hand up flat, moved it in a circle, and the ragpicker disappeared like steaming breath wiped from a cold window pane.
All any philosopher ever comes Out with is exactly what be walked in with-except for those sell-deluders who prove their assumptions by their conclusions, in a circle.
All any philosopher ever comes out with is exactly what he walked in with -except for those sell-deluders who prove their assumptions by their conclusions, in a circle.
She flung her long hair around in a circle, leaped high and kicked her feet higher, screamed pleasantly, and ran away.
The first thought that came to Leyel's mind was himself and some of the servants' children, holding hands and walking in a circle, round and round till they came to the last words, whereupon they threw themselves to the ground and laughed insanely.
Their wings extended upward from their small bodies and rotated in a circle above.
He then seated himself at the foot of the ladder in the Arab fashion, with his legs crossed under him, and a portion of the crowd collected around him in a circle, at respectful distances.
They were swept up in a Circle round-up just outside Baltimore and thrown into the parade of human misery that had just now reached the former nation's capital.
Many rituals demand that you move in a circle with the altar in the centre, although some place the altar in the North of the circle and you stand to the South, facing North.