Sentence examples for circling a tree from inspiring English sources

On Second Avenue, near 44th Street, heaps of garbage bags circling a tree had been all but concealed by a snowdrift.

Plausibly, this alludes to William James' discussion of the occasion-sensitivity of the question whether, in a case in which both a squirrel and a man are circling a tree, the man goes round the squirrel (James, 1907/1975).

Kim Merlin of Ex Floreus in Winnetka, Ill., has an English wrought-iron Regency-style bench that circles a tree, a pair of Doulton Factory white terra cotta urns on tall columns, circa 1830, and a five-foot-tall stone obelisk from Vicenza, Italy.

They were merely seeing their own footprints as they circled a tree.

Bouquets of flowers circle a tree near the entrance, and messages of support are written in chalk on the sidewalk.

There is an ancient grove of trees circling a pond edged with stones that is back by the river on the expansive East Saddle River Road site, he noted.

Drive down a desert road and suddenly there is a shock of brilliance: a group of ladies circled under a tree, their saris crimson, fuscia and tangerine.

The great trick that humans developed at some point in the last few hundred thousand years is the ability to circle around a tree, rock, ancestor, flag, book or god, and then treat that thing as sacred.

Molecules in the explored space are represented using the following colored symbols: a start molecule as a magenta circle; a target molecule as a red circle; an inner tree node as a cyan circle; a tree leaf as a green circle; a decoy as an orange circle; and a new morph in the actual iteration as a green triangle (see Figure 3).

The day I attended, about twenty people formed a circle by a tree.

When we pulled into Ndoyenne 2, bumping off the paved road onto dirt, the grandmothers were sitting in a circle under a tree.