A quarter of the circumference of a circle.
1 Sometimes the tall, black forecastle swung in a quarter - circle ; sometimes the stern went round.
2 A pale quarter - circle has been traced in the varnish by the door's slow-swinging path.
3 We watched the players' bodies as they jogged through the green quarter - circle of the outfield.
4 His view was restricted, but there was no sign of life on the quarter - circle it commanded.
5 The artificial satellite was swinging up behind them, and was only a quarter - circle about Earth behind them.
6 The three torsos were carefully arranged below the BOO in a quarter - circle , making a cute little Halloween smile.
7 He lowered his bicycle to the ground and pulled the screen door through its quarter - circle in the dirt.
8 The tangle finally ended when the black archer backed away in a quick quarter - circle and snaked his ankle around the leg of a wooden stool.
9 Facebook Twitter Pinterest The golden spiral is a patchwork made up of quarter - circles .
10 The flat was quarter - circled by a waterless creek upon whose banks grew a few misshapen and splintered cottonwoods.
11 "Yes," said his wife, "I like that and the quarter - circling in of those front corners; those balconies, too."
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