That would mean that the dog would be whining and turning in circles.

NEWYORKER: Indianapolis (Highway 74)

The snow is really assaulting the windshield as I head for the Louisville junction, the dog turning tight circles in the back, then dropping down into a ball and tucking her nose into her tail, resigning herself to yet another hundred miles of bleak highway.

NEWYORKER: Indianapolis (Highway 74)

As a precaution, the pilot starts turning the huge plane in circles to see what the targets do.

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In 1991 Dana Gioia, a poet (and former marketing manager for General Foods), set off a fierce debate in American poetry circles with an attack on American academia for turning poetry into a smug, producer-driven lobby, concerned only with its own survival and indifferent to the fact that it had alienated a wider audience.

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