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Example sentences for "around the"

  • And then, after a few make-believe attempts, Bob actually did whirl and caught Daylight napping again and landed him in the old position with clasped arms around the neck.

  • She followed the road until well around the corner, then she stopped and sat on a grassy spot, laid her books beside her and opened the lunch box.

  • Sinton threw in stones and pounded the earth solid around the post.

  • She searched the bushes and low trees behind the garden and all around the edge of the woods on their land, and having little success, at last came to the road.

  • Since it's so cleared I dare go around the edge in daytime, though we are all afraid at night.

  • She pulled a wire pin from her hair, stuck it through the other string, and using it as a bodkin ran it around the hem of her skirt, so shortly she had a large bag.

  • Around the dungeon, studious to behold The hideous pest, my labouring eyes I roll'd; In vain!

  • Ulysses found him busied as he sate Before the threshold of his rustic gate; Around the mansion in a circle shone A rural portico of rugged stone (In absence of his lord with honest toil His own industrious hands had raised the pile).

  • A pretty, greenswarded little valley lay before me, groups of cottonwoods fringed the stream here and there, around the roots of which were both shade and water.

  • Around the camp-fires at night, the chicanery of The Western Supply Company gave place to the best stories at our command.

  • Around the camp-fire that night, the day's work was reviewed.

  • I could see by the tracks the wagons'd all ben goin' around the barn to the left.

  • But, just the same, let's turn off an' go around the block.

  • First the streets, crossed and entangled, forming a hundred amusing figures in the block; around the market-place, it was like a star with a thousand rays.

  • Around the city, outside the ramparts, sight was lost in a great circle of fleecy vapors through which one confusedly distinguished the indefinite line of the plains, and the graceful swell of the heights.

  • Two days after, a considerable crowd was assembled, towards ten o'clock in the morning, around the door of M.

  • The request was granted; and three months afterwards, around the twelve or fifteen small vessels which had brought these gypsies of the sea, a small village sprang up.

  • Around the fireside at their ease There sat a group of friends, entranced With the delicious melodies Who from the far-off noisy town Had to the wayside inn come down, To rest beneath its old oak-trees.

  • Then, taking her matchecota, or principal garment, in one hand, she dragged it around the field.

  • It was the practice of the hunter's wife, when the field of corn had been planted, to choose the first dark or overclouded evening to perform a secret circuit, sans habillement, around the field.

  • My operations now have spread to close six hundred acres of almost solid medicinal growth, including a little lake, around the shores of which flourish a quadruple setting of water-loving herbs.

  • Around the Girl he piled hot-water bottles and breathlessly hung over her, rubbing her hands.

  • Around the edges of these fields, and where one of them sloped toward the lake, he began grubbing a variety of grass having tall stems already over a foot in height at half growth.

  • He folded it around the Girl's shoulders and picked up the coverlet.

  • They insisted on the death of their ancient enemies, because the deer had trampled nests around the shore, roiled the water, spoiled the food hunting, and had been wholly unmindful of the laws of feathered folk from the beginning.

  • Linda caught Katy and swung her around the kitchen in a wild war dance.

  • He would have been willing to join hands with Peter and start around the world, quite convinced of the fairness of the outcome, with no greater acquaintance than one intent look at Peter, one grip of his sure hand.

  • And she wants us to look carefully everywhere for any scrap of paper along the hedge or around the shrubbery on the north side of the house.

  • Garnish the edge of the dish with a deep border of the fresh leaves bearing their lace of white bloom intact, around the edge of the bowl, and sprinkle on top the sifted yolks of two hard-boiled eggs, heaping the diced whites in the center.

  • Various attempts have been made from time to time, by ambitious cyclers, to wheel across America from ocean to ocean; but - "Around the World!

  • Among those early contributions to the Express is a series called "Around the World," an attempt at collaboration with Prof.

  • The stranger stood a moment lost in thought, and then, glancing his dark eyes rather wildly around the hall, he bowed low to the divine, and moved from the apartment with an air that would not admit of detention.

  • It is for no longer than to consider a brief essay on the subject--let us call it: "What's Around the Corner.

  • Padraig, the scribe, sat listening intently while the company around the guest-house fire discoursed in monk-Latin of werewolves in Ireland.

  • He ranged the woods and cliffs all around the Abbey in search of plants, shrubs, trees and minerals.

  • Around the inside of the walls are shelters for horses and pack animals, and sometimes--not always--there is a house where rooms are let to those who can pay.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "around the" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.


    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    around here; around him; around the; around them; electric circuit; fine sand; general secretary; good knight; hath heard; leaves ovate; means uncommon; nine millions; non pas; personal character; quarter before; ranging from; readily detected; similar type; specifically distinct; steam engines; unanimous consent; verdict against; will thee; woman suffrage; your power