circle the/your wagons

Examples of circling

circling

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

All of the listeners wrote their judgments on a response sheet by circling one of the two options: speaks quite well 0speaks quite badly.
Participants were asked to indicate whether the sentence correctly described the picture by circling either true or false on the answer sheet.
The children expressed their judgment by circling a happy or a sad face on the same line as the picture.
Raters indicated their judgments by circling the appropriate response for each utterance presented on a rating form.
Having diverted the trolley, you now face the allegedly new problem of the trolley's hurtling towards the five after circling.
But speeding on the roads and circling in the skies has given the modern man the opportunity to see more than his renaissance predecessor.
The objective was to produce a 'push-pull' effect in flies investigating and/or circling at close range.
For example, a circling movement of the index finger to indicate "time passing" would literally indicate a clock.
Survey administrators read all questions aloud while students followed along, reading questions to themselves and circling responses in the booklet.
By 1986 several thousand objects-mostly spent, upper stages of space-launch vehicles and inert spacecraft-were circling the earth.
Get beyond their unmistakable melodic beauty and one is struck by the circling immobility, the static, flat surfaces and non-functional harmony, the rhythmic asymmetry.
In ballroom scenes, the terms giri or in giri were also used to mean circling or taking a turn around the room.
Participants read silently the instruction sheet and before beginning the practice by circling all ts on it, the experimenter answered all their questions.
It covers "circling" gaits and "spinning" gaits, and therefore avoids the problems associated with clearly defining the two.
Soft tissue massage was carried out with slow strokes, light pressure, and circling movements using a light scented (citrus) vegetable oil.
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