Definition of crop circle in US English:
crop circle
nounkrɑp ˈsərkəlkräp ˈsərkəl
An area of standing crops that has been flattened in the form of a circle or more complex pattern. No general cause of crop circles has been identified although various natural and unorthodox explanations have been put forward; many of the circles are known to have been hoaxes.
Example sentencesExamples
- With these images she offers her explanation for the crop circle phenomenon.
- Last week I even gave a talk at a crop circle convention in Glastonbury.
- The action starts when Graham awakens one morning to discover flattened stalks in his immense cornfields, forming a mysterious and inexplicably huge crop circle pattern.
- A crop circle in Ontario this year attracted more than 5,000 people to the site.
- It is the largest crop circle reported so far this year in UK.
- I was very disappointed by your recent crop circle story;
- A local newspaper reported a crop circle was found nearby.
- It has been demonstrated that a crop circle can be created in less than an hour by a team of men using only a rope and stake.
- A farmer claims to have witnessed the formation of a crop circle in a barley field.
- I was taking a group of crop circle enthusiasts from London on a crop circle visit and this was the event I had chosen.
- They wake one morning to discover that a crop circle has materialized in their field.
- It was his first investigation of a crop circle since becoming a volunteer.
- On the return flight he noticed another crop circle near the one he had visited earlier in the day and swears that the new circle was not there just forty-five minutes earlier.
- I was an eyewitness to a crop circle forming in the Netherlands in Aug. 2000.
- As the crop circle phenomenon gained momentum, formations have also been reported in Australia, South Africa, China, Russia, and many other countries, frequently in close proximity to ancient sacred sites.
- People have reported feeling nauseous after stepping into a crop circle, only returning to normal after leaving its boundaries.
- The first-ever crop circle formation was recorded in London, England in 1647.
- I have always been interested in the unexplained since I was a child and so I fell quite naturally into the crop circle scenario.
- One day a crop circle appeared in our cornfield.
- This close-up of a crop circle shows how the grain has been flattened to create the pattern.