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Examples of circled

circled

In English, many past and present participles of verbs can be used as adjectives. Some of these examples may show the adjective use.

Here they circled, changing directions frequently while making ' loop-like ' tracks.
The bird came to him from the east at night when dawn lighted the sky, and circled above him.
The divergences from the pentatonic set are circled.
For example, if a student circled two nativelike associations and the distractor, their score for that particular word would be 1 (2 - 1 = 1).
The receptive section was similar, except that a list of possible suffixes followed each prompt verb, from which allowable suffixes were to be circled.
For example, in the body-matching condition, the first and second circles were circled.
The solid green circles at the different positions were then circled in red as appropriate for the specific condition.
The pulmonary arteries were circled and snared down after institution of cardiopulmonary by-pass, to promote prograde blood flow into the anomalous right coronary artery.
The parent circled "yes" or "no" to indicate which events on the printed list had occurred during the past year.
The earth, he began, was an immovable sphere with equal surface area in all directions, which the sun circled daily.
One component is a set of circled numbers arrayed as points.
The circled points are for those periods when there was a shortage of water, and these data have not been included in the analysis.
The circled regions are areas of needle penetrations that appear autofluorescent.
The circled portions of the game tree are pruned during the search.
On the receptive association task, if a distractor was circled, it was subtracted from the number of nativelike responses given.
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