AROUND in a Sentence
Learn AROUND from example sentences; some of them are from classic books. These examples are selected from a corpus with 300,000 sentences, including classic works and current mainstream media. Some sentences also link to their contexts.
354 example sentences for AROUND, such as:
1. He put a proprietorial arm around her.
2. Her hair whipped around her face in the wind.
3. She fastened the belt loosely around her waist.
4. We spent the afternoon fooling around on the beach.
5. He could hear someone moving around in the room above.
2. Her hair whipped around her face in the wind.
3. She fastened the belt loosely around her waist.
4. We spent the afternoon fooling around on the beach.
5. He could hear someone moving around in the room above.
Search Quotes from Classic Book Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen |
Meanings and Examples of AROUND
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around
ad. in circumference
ad. used of movement to or among many different places or in no particular direction
Classic Sentence: (152 in 11 pages)
1 She ran around the shrubs and paths towards the secret garden.
2 Another pause, and more eying and sidling around each other.
3 When she cautiously faced around again, a peach lay before her.
4 She ran to the door; he was not in sight; she flew around to the play-yard; he was not there.
5 There was no getting around the authorities, so Joe turned, received the whack and fell.
6 Then he sat up, pushing the body from him, and gazed at it, and then around him, confusedly.
7 Potter lifted his face and looked around him with a pathetic hopelessness in his eyes.
8 He began to find himself hanging around her father's house, nights, and feeling very miserable.
9 Then he went tearing around the house again spreading chaos and destruction in his path.
10 You go over that way and I'll hunt around by the spring.
11 I'd like to see her get around this with her rubbage 'bout superstition.'
12 And finally, when they got out their pipes and went serenely puffing around, the very summit of glory was reached.
13 She glanced around; found herself alone, and the next instant she had the book in her hands.
14 Tom, I don't like to fool around much where there's dead people.
15 Yes, but, Huck, ghosts don't travel around only at night.
Example Sentence: (202 in 14 pages)
1 I had been running around southern England in a whirlwind of activity.
2 The town remains sleepy despite the activity all around it.
3 We spent the afternoon meandering around the streets of the old town.
4 We spent the afternoon fooling around on the beach.
5 Babies start to get mobile around the age of eight months.
6 He could hear someone moving around in the room above.
7 Stories about his past are flying around among the students.
8 The vultures were already circling around the dead animal.
9 When someone loves none, he will fall in love with anyone around him.
10 Only a skeleton staff remains to show anyone interested around the site.
11 You'd better wrap a clean cloth around your arm till the wound closes.
12 He put a proprietorial arm around her.
13 Envy assails the noblest, the winds howl around the highest peak.
14 She fastened the belt loosely around her waist.
15 Her hair whipped around her face in the wind.