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  • noun hemisphere

Etymologies

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semi- +‎ sphere

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Examples

  • Those invited to take part and who did write back said things like, “semisphere, which, when blue, a yellow circle is pasted, and to which, when black, some thousand of tiny sparks are affixed.”

    Imbecilogram 2010

  • Or else an answer folded into the way she turned and regarded him, her eyelids at half-mast, a pure ebony glint that seemed to sink down and reside in the lower semisphere of her iris, that glint mightier than the homely glasses and imparting a potent yet always veiled opinion of the things she took in.

    Heaven Lake John Dalton 2004

  • Or else an answer folded into the way she turned and regarded him, her eyelids at half-mast, a pure ebony glint that seemed to sink down and reside in the lower semisphere of her iris, that glint mightier than the homely glasses and imparting a potent yet always veiled opinion of the things she took in.

    Heaven Lake John Dalton 2004

  • Or else an answer folded into the way she turned and regarded him, her eyelids at half-mast, a pure ebony glint that seemed to sink down and reside in the lower semisphere of her iris, that glint mightier than the homely glasses and imparting a potent yet always veiled opinion of the things she took in.

    Heaven Lake John Dalton 2004

  • Or else an answer folded into the way she turned and regarded him, her eyelids at half-mast, a pure ebony glint that seemed to sink down and reside in the lower semisphere of her iris, that glint mightier than the homely glasses and imparting a potent yet always veiled opinion of the things she took in.

    Heaven Lake John Dalton 2004

  • Or else an answer folded into the way she turned and regarded him, her eyelids at half-mast, a pure ebony glint that seemed to sink down and reside in the lower semisphere of her iris, that glint mightier than the homely glasses and imparting a potent yet always veiled opinion of the things she took in.

    Heaven Lake John Dalton 2004

  • Or else an answer folded into the way she turned and regarded him, her eyelids at half-mast, a pure ebony glint that seemed to sink down and reside in the lower semisphere of her iris, that glint mightier than the homely glasses and imparting a potent yet always veiled opinion of the things she took in.

    Heaven Lake John Dalton 2004

  • "No?" exclaimed Mrs. Shattuck, her gaze darting up to the softly humming semisphere.

    The Metrognome and Other Stories Foster, Alan Dean, 1946- 1990

  • "No?" exclaimed Mrs. Shattuck, her gaze darting up to the softly humming semisphere.

    The Metrognome and other Stories Foster, Alan Dean, 1946- 1990

  • He was sitting in a tapestry-covered recliner behind a perfect black semisphere of desk, staring at me from across the room.

    Catspaw Vinge, Joan D. 1988

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