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in circles

ADVERB
  1. without making progress
    the candidates talked in circles

How To Use in circles In A Sentence

  • Bell was also a sycophant, a Yes man, who could shift his political stance in a heartbeat, talk in circles and dodge any important decision making.
  • For the entire night we walked around in circles. Times, Sunday Times
  • Wolves and jackals, when frightened, certainly tuck in their tails; and a tamed jackal has been described as careering round his master in circles and figures of eight, like a dog, with his tail between his legs. The expression of the emotions in man and animals
  • Well we can go around in circles all day about the nomenclatures that we use.
  • I've been in and out of jail and round in circles for years - desperately wanting to get off drugs but finding no way to get off the merry-go-round of smack, stealing and the nick.
  • I seem to have been running round in circles all day and yet I've got no progress to show for it.
  • That argument went in circles for a while before petering out in non-resolution.
  • Maybe he could benefit from being one of the ‘people dancing around in circles, holding hands with daisy chains in their hair’.
  • He has a theory about why dogs walk round in circles before going to sleep.
  • The new idea sold well in certain circles
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