1.   He circled the house, looking in, and saw nothing but the bits and pieces of ordinary living.

2.   I circled the house at a distance, passed through the orchard into the garden and stood amid the rows of broccoli.

3.   My commute home, therefore, included circling my house like a crow in search of a parking space on the car-clogged streets of Cambridge, Mass.

4.   Now that patio is part of a series of outdoor rooms that circle the house.

5.   Shrubs and flowers circling your house are pleasing to the eye, but also to the thousands of bug eyes scouting for a good meal or breeding ground.

6.   Somewhere else a person is terrified at the creaking of redwoods that circle her house and is weighing sleeping under the dining room table or moving into town.

7.   That very night, as I was trying not to envision hundreds of bats circling the house, looking for entry points, the telephone rang.

8.   The jets stopped breaking the sound barrier, which I missed because it would always make my dog run, barking, frantically circling the house exactly three times.

9.   The mob circled his house, pelting it with enough rocks and debris to knock out all the windows.

10.   The river was circling the house when they returned.