87 Verbs to Use for the Word surroundings

In this way I had forgotten my uncomfortable surroundings, when I heard one of my comrades call out my name.

Sixty-two was not far off, and, pausing a moment to consider his course, he mechanically took in the surroundings.

As it grew light I began to examine my surroundings, and discovered you.

Still M. Zola did not at first find the surroundings very much worse than those one observes on leaving Paris by the Northern or Eastern lines.

First the pleasure in exploring the new surroundings and then the variety of delights.

A street sweeper, patched to his office, tunes his slow work to fit the quiet surroundings.

Sarrion sat down without looking round him, in the manner of a man who knew his surroundings, and took no interest in them.

Desperately they turned to survey their surroundings.

Some are even able to change colour and shape, to some extent, to match their surroundings.

He went to the soda counter and ordered something to drink, his eyes all the while studying his surroundings.

We contrasted these sordid surroundings with the splendours of Silas Upham's front parlour, and then we stared furtively at Wilkins.

At first, loving my own hills so well, I was puzzled to understand why I should also enjoy Starkweather's groomed surroundings.

It should also be noticed that in the various folk-tales which have been collected together in recent years, many curious plant superstitions are introduced, although, to suit the surroundings of the story, they have only too frequently been modified, or the reverse.

He thought the time had come for the boy to leave his old surroundings, and, besides study, have a moderate amount of the best society, too.

The old home of his youth had subsequently passed into the hands of a man of means, who had added to it, improved the surroundings, and turned it into a modern and elegant villa.

She wrote at once to Olympia, telling the distressing story, and then set about bettering Vincent's surroundings.

Without observing his surroundings, he sank listlessly to the earth; the cool grass received his exhausted frame.

A man carelessly neglects his drains, or allows a mass of filth to accumulate in his yard, or uses well-water without testing its qualities or ascertaining its surroundings.

It had never occurred to her that Palko would leave, and she could not even imagine those surroundings without him.

Why not change the system and try the education of the moral and intellectual faculties, cheerful surroundings, inspiring influences?

For her part, however, if he chose to consider her middle-aged aunt lovely, Veronica would not contradict him, for she was cautious in a certain degree, and in spite of herself she distrusted her surroundings.

And doubtless their surroundings had considerable to do with the enjoyment of the dinner.

I thought it was because she couldn't endure the old surroundings and the pity of her associates of the opera-days.

The latter did not object to them in the least, and was even conscious of a feeling of pride and satisfaction when her neighbors came in to admire, and some of them to envy her the handsome surroundings.

The quarrel they had heard somehow had flavored their surroundings.

87 Verbs to Use for the Word  surroundings