English Sentences Focusing on Words and Their Word Families
The Word "Around" in Example Sentences
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238327	Police immediately sealed off the streets around the hotel as they searched for the bomb.	Dejo
3040058	Tom and Mary walked into the restaurant and looked around, but couldn't see a free table.	patgfisher
3171172	I have been meaning to go to Berlin, but keep putting it off, I´ll get around to it soon.	davearms
2952717	I'll ask around and see if I can find out if anyone has ideas on how to solve the problem.	CK
271184	Newspapers and television stations around the world told the story of Koko and her kitten.	CK
920409	After class is over, our teacher usually sticks around to answer any questions we may have.	CK
954398	There were many things that we wanted to do, but we never got around to doing many of them.	CK
924560	Recently, I've been putting on a little weight around my waist. I guess it's middle-age spread.	CK
327956	Thanks to the arrangements made by Ken'ichi, the women found various places to work around town.	CM
1093042	Tom said that he doesn't want to hurt you, but if you come around here again, he'll beat you up.	CK
2327459	Girls begin puberty around the ages of ten to eleven, and boys around the ages of eleven to twelve.	Hybrid
3052158	I don't know if it was because of the late hour or because of the rain, but there was no one around.	WestofEden
272612	If you whip the steering wheel around like that on a snowy road, the car is going to go into a slide.	CM
321612	I am looking forward to walking around the Izu Peninsula with some of my friends during summer vacation.	CK
953932	If I could only speak English half as well as you can, I wouldn't be worried about traveling around the world.	CK
2027769	Tom was obsessed by the belief that, one by one, everyone around him was being abducted and replaced by aliens.	halfb1t
38448	In the end, because of the disease, he became unable to walk and had to use a motorized wheelchair to get around.	CM
266812	When I got to the office, I had tons of work waiting for me. I was running around like a chicken with its head cut off.	CM
684588	"Jingle Bells," a popular song around Christmas time, is not really a Christmas song. The lyrics say nothing about Christmas.	CK
552224	Selena Gomez and the Scene also had good luck with their first album, "Kiss and Tell." It has sold more than a million copies around the world.	American
1230823	If you translate from your second language into your own native language, rather than the other way around, you're less likely to make mistakes.	CK
2840514	One way to lower the number of errors in the Tatoeba Corpus would be to encourage people to only translate into their native languages instead of the other way around.	CK
3020392	After the iron had cooled off, Mary wrapped the electrical cord around the iron, put the iron back on the shelf, folded up the ironing board, and put it away back in the closet.	Delian