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Example sentences for "around him"

  • The author of the uneasiness stood talking to June by the further door; his curly hair had a rumpled appearance, as though he found what was going on around him unusual.

  • Then went his animals again thoughtfully around him, and placed themselves once more in front of him.

  • Around him, six rat-like remote-control robots moved with him, shifting their pattern constantly as they patrolled his moving figure.

  • Around him, he sees evidence in profusion that ours is a technological society.

  • Around him, sitting or standing, are his courtierly admirers, plying him with questions.

  • The Nazarene was walking slowly, his head down, his hands bound behind him; the hair fell thickly over his face, and he stooped more than usual; apparently he was oblivious to all going on around him.

  • So lately he stood in the same place, and in the same way hectored the countrymen around him.

  • How different from what was passing around him, where the drummers were beating the reveille!

  • Paul was obliged to ride all over the field, carrying orders to the different generals, while the bullets fell like hailstones around him.

  • I am innocent," said Paul, gasping for breath, and sinking into his seat, taking no notice of what was going on around him.

  • The adolescent, who was rather free in his comments on what went on around him, made this pretty little speech to his mother: "Mother, I think you have a very petty mind.

  • This is the significance of modern educational movements that seek to leave the child untrammelled in his responses to what goes on around him.

  • He was so hungry that the ill-cooked, badly-served meal tempted him to eat; and he ate on in silence, seemingly more interested in boiled beef than in the conversation that went on around him.

  • The walls had fallen away from around him--the window, the river below, the Temple prison had all faded away, merged in the chaos of his thoughts.

  • We may take it that de Batz did not philosophise over-much on what went on around him.

  • Darkness closed in around him, and with the darkness came the full return of the phantoms that had assailed him in the house of the Square du Roule when first he had heard of Jeanne's arrest.

  • There is around him a cloak, blue, Parthian purple.

  • This warrior took his station on the hill of turf facing the warrior who first came to the hill, and his company took their places around him.

  • This warrior took his station on the left of the leader[1] of the first company[1] who had come to the mound, and his followers got them seated around him.

  • The Colonel took a triumphant glance at the ruins piled up around him, and then ordered the retreat to be sounded.

  • Soon, thanks to the vivacity of his movements, Fray Antonio had a considerable heap of wood piled up around him.

  • Apparently indifferent to what went on around him, he waited, quietly leaning on his rifle, till it pleased the Jaguar to give the command for departure.

  • The child is in need of mental and moral support from those around him, and all that he finds is an openly expressed apprehension and sense of impotence.

  • Not that the imitation on his part is in any way conscious; but like a mirror he reflects in every action and in every word all that he sees and hears going on around him.

  • He will often be oblivious to everything that is going on around him, intent only on the purpose of the moment.

  • Around him was a golden perfumed stillness.

  • Around him on the moor squatted a band of belated roving shepherds, who from all the country round were bringing their flocks to fold for the Winter.

  • And it was in Nicanor's heart as he rode fast through the night, fostered in his long season of darkness, unconscious, and inevitable as the changes which were taking place around him.

  • The world thundered on around him; the web of Life unrolled endlessly from the distaff of the Second Fate; and he slept on, unheeding.

  • The family were assembled in the chief sitting-room, old Ravenshaw enjoying a pipe, while the ladies were variously occupied around him.

  • Dozens of wild fellows were curvetting and racing around him.

  • To the individual, indeed, it may be said to be in itself all the things which are around him, however near or afar; because it is truly that, by which alone all things near or afar become known to him.

  • The feeling that he is but a man, in the true sense of that word, as a frail and dependant being like those around him, is one of the first feelings, and perhaps not one of the least painful, which arise in such a situation.

  • The latter gentleman was far from being intoxicated; he was merely what is called "elevated," and quite wide awake enough to be wary of anything going on around him.

  • And over the face of the youth there broke A smile both stern and sweet; Slowly he turned on the bed of oak, And proudly folding his sable cloak Around him, sprang to his feet.

  • The traveller, who struggles through thickets and over rocks toward the top of a mountain is well rewarded by the landscape which lies below and around him, lighted up by the radiance of the full orb of day.

  • I will say no more," and sinking his chin in his blanket, he sat motionless as a statue, and heedless of what went on around him.

  • And yet as he slowly retreated step by step, and though he never took his eyes off the bull, Claverton was aware of every single movement that went on around him.

  • His presence became known to the whole village in a very brief time, and the younger portion came flocking around him, as though he was some wonderful curiosity, which, under the circumstances, was the fact.

  • The temperature was milder than at that time, so that the lad found the thick blanket uncomfortably warm when wrapped closely around him.

  • It will be understood, therefore, why Jack Carleton remained standing with folded arms, while his captors were busying themselves around him.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
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