27056 examples of around in sentences

This conduit wound around a good deal; it would take a hundred winding feet to cover thirty straightaway.

Jim felt along the edges of the stone clear around.

III At the office next morning Sloan found the essay in his pocket and looked around the city-room for D.K.T.

A confusion of voices, raillery, laughter, eddied around the arcaded walls, and thin music bound it together with a monotonous count of notes.

A hundred candles, carried in horizontal banks on laths by little boys, came around him on three sides, like footlights.

And around the drums beyond the candles he heard them singing: On the day of the going away of my Love, When the litters, carrying the women of the tribe, Traversed the valley of Dad, like a sea, mirage, They were like ships, great ships, the work of the children of Adoul, Or like the boats of Yamen's sons.... "Boom-boom!"

" One roof, unlike the rest, displayed no such flaga somewhat notorious "garden" and dance hall just around the corner.

And his junk-cart, with its bells, stood, silent and unmanned, upon the vacant lot just around the corner.

" This seemed to please the man from around the corner.

And again she asked herself why he could not have been clean like the man from around the corner.

And she pleased to become a denizen of a world which, though just around the corner, was unrelated to the sphere in which she had moved.

She hurriedly shoved her cart around a corner into a less-congested thoroughfare and there a mammoth gilded clock at the edge of the sidewalk confronted her.

But...." He glanced around the dingy warehouse.

She struggled to her feet and glared around her.

He waited only long enough to get the lie of the land around the rifle pit, then crept quietly back to his companions.

In a much shorter time than he had expected, his two companions appeared in sight around the curve of the ledge.

Stooping swiftly, Roy swung up the broken barrel of the quick-firer, and with a shout sprang at the Turks, whirling the weighty length of steel around his head.

Musketry still crackled in the distance, but all around was very still.

He watched the men pass on until they were out of sight around a curve in the track.

We took our way around the house, the ladies and I in front, Julius next and Tom bringing up the rear with the wheelbarrow.

And all around him the wild beasts sway, Cured of their mortal ills Flying squirrels from Sikkim way, Silver foxes that used to play Up on the Kashmir hills.

Their vessels keep running around like hens in a shower, hardly knowing what to do.

Seventy men and four cannon completed the defensive line which Montcalm had drawn around the top of the rock.

The boy thought it strange that such a man should be put in charge of any part of the defensive cordon around Quebec.

She did not form any resolution, and neither did she hesitate; but, drawing tight around her the plaidlike length of shawl which had served her nearly a lifetime, she stood up ready to take her turn.

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