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Example sentences for "going about"

  • In there it was always warm, and Pelle was not afraid of going about in the thickest darkness.

  • Although he was born and had grown up in Copenhagen, he was like a country shoemaker to look at, going about in canvas slippers which his daughter made for him, and in the mornings he smoked his long pipe at the house-door.

  • The trunk was now cram full, and she had the satisfaction of knowing that he would not be going about like a tramp.

  • He looked upon a slave-holder as a kind of a living, walking, talking "Satan, going about as a roaring lion seeking whom he may destroy.

  • Would it not be well to make a habit, in the evening in particular, of you, who are marked men, going about in little companies?

  • The position of a ship in the act of going about.

  • I advised him to put the best face he could on it, for that Miss Hannay would be the last person to be pleased, if he were to be going about with a face as long as if he had just come from his aunt's funeral.

  • Bathurst looks at life seriously, and no wonder, going about as he does among the natives and listening to their stories and complaints.

  • The essential idea of self-defence is that of stopping a trespasser, one who, however innocently, is going about to trench on that good which you have a right to maintain and reserve to yourself.

  • Do you know the story that's going about, Lilian?

  • The reason, sir, I've got that badly off the rails with my deductions is just that I had to find some other theory than the story that's going about.

  • Well anyway, this derned story is going about, and something's got to be done to stop it.

  • There is a lying by, and not stirring up ourselves to an active way of going about duty, of which the prophet complaineth, Isa.

  • Where do you think we'd have been in the struggle with the employers, if we'd gone about our business as you're going about yours in the House of Commons?

  • Defn: A roving or going about in the night.

  • Defn: Going about in the night; night-wandering.

  • I can't make out how it is that a chap like that is going about free; why, he would have been hung a dozen times if he had been at home.

  • Are there not even other younger sons of the Greeks, who, going about in every direction, might arouse each of the kings?

  • There she was, going about so pleasantly, a trifle thin, and poorly dressed, yet never uttering a sigh at her poverty, though she had been brought up to lack for nothing.

  • A man already promised and betrothed, going about as a costly jewel to other womenfolk?


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "going about" 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:
    export crops; going about; going abroad; going away; going beyond; going down; going forth; going forward; going from; going home; going over; going right; going west; has been already said; her countenance; her voice very low; large majorities; little hesitation; male fern; rarely used; rural life; same person; snowy mountains; this species; various colours; wood products