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Example sentences for "round the"

  • His face gave again, round the room, its convulsed supplication.

  • V Oh, she let me know as soon as, round the corner of the house, she loomed again into view.

  • But that only made his little final auditory more compact and select, kept it, round the hearth, subject to a common thrill.

  • Thence it was sent to a gentleman in Philadelphia, having travelled nearly all the way round the world.

  • Just as I reached the entrance, she appeared again suddenly, round the side of the boat-house.

  • Round the building at intervals appeared the remains of the village which Mrs. Clements had described to me as her husband's place of abode in former years, and which the principal inhabitants had long since deserted for the new town.

  • My wanderings had led me round the outskirts of the village, and had brought me out at the lower end of it.

  • At the end of that time the nurse came quickly round the corner of the wall holding Lady Glyde by the arm.

  • In the mean time the multitude stood round the house, and supposed that he had a long discourse with those that were gone in about what they claimed of him.

  • However, when Titus had recalled those men from Gophna, he gave orders that they should go round the wall, together with Josephus, and show themselves to the people; upon which a great many fled to the Romans.

  • What is to become of me," she asked suddenly in a voice of despair, "while you go round the world?

  • So soon as he returned to London his preparations for this travel must begin, he must plot out the men to whom he would go, and so contrive that also he would go round the world.

  • How can uninformed men think all round the globe?

  • Amanda," he said, "I mean to go round the world.

  • That other, round the loins So slender of his shape, was Michael Scot, Practis'd in ev'ry slight of magic wile.

  • In the pit they stand immers'd, Each from his navel downward, round the bank.

  • That lake, the noisome stench exhaling, round The city' of grief encompasses, which now We may not enter without rage.

  • He was again summoned before the Inquisition at Rome, accused of having asserted that the earth moves round the sun.

  • He was summoned before the Holy Inquisition, under an accusation of having taught that the earth moves round the sun, a doctrine "utterly contrary to the Scriptures.

  • The instant she showed her nose round the point, we began our salute.

  • Round the corner he came, unaware of strangers; then straightway recognizing his visitors, halted abruptly.

  • Smooth and swift, like a yacht in Southampton Water; round the flag, through the gap, they brought their sheep.

  • Round the corner of this came a figure, at first a mere shadow in the haze, apparently bending and peering about.

  • The lamp alarms and frightens Jonah; as lying in his berth his tormented eyes roll round the place, and this thus far successful fugitive finds no refuge for his restless glance.

  • Thus left to himself, Alleyne drew his panel of wood where the light of one of the torches would strike full upon it, and worked away with all the pleasure of the trained craftsman, listening the while to the talk which went on round the fire.

  • All this was novel and strange to the cloister-bred youth; but most interesting of all was the motley circle of guests who sat eating their collops round the blaze.

  • And then gloomy silence settled again round the teatable, a silence broken only by despondent munchings and the occasional feverish rattle of a teaspoon in its saucer.

  • She hunted an old piece of tape out of her pocket, and tied to crosswise, with a big loop, round the thaler, and hung it round the neck of the little Saint.

  • Au revoir, gentlemen," said the devil Mercurius; and once more fixed his tail round the neck of his disappointed companion.

  • But, when they arrived near the convent, Cartouche saw several ominous figures gathering round the coach, and felt that his doom was sealed.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "round 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:
    artillery formation; could see; degrees west; depart from; different persons; flushed face; general conversation; nowhere else; possible should; province called; round about; round ball; round corners; round emblem; round figures; round here; round piece; round shot; round slices; round the; round the mulberry bush; round towers; round trip; shall endeavour; she got; well tell