English English Dictionary

around in English:

1. around

Turn around.

You can't just come in here and start ordering people around.

Doesn't it irritate you to see couples making out around town?

Company attorneys are working around the clock to complete the merger.

She advised him to take a long holiday, so he immediately quit work and took a trip around the world.

Blind people sometimes develop a compensatory ability to sense the proximity of objects around them.

There were many things that we wanted to do, but we never got around to doing many of them.

A lie can travel halfway around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes.

Ecology is the study of living things all around us.

Jingle Bells, a popular song around Christmas time, is not really a Christmas song. The lyrics say nothing about Christmas.

Taking no notice of the people around them, the boys talked loudly to each other.

I'll be sticking around town all summer. I just don't have enough money to go anywhere.

Don't read evil intentions into the ordinary actions of people around you.

Make your airplane reservations early since flights fill up quickly around Christmas.

I looked around and noticed that mine was the only car on the road.

2. on every side of

3. located on every side

English word "around"(located on every side) occurs in sets:

Most common adverbs

4. in the region of

English word "around"(in the region of) occurs in sets:

what price a degree

5. being used actively

English word "around"(being used actively) occurs in sets:

Advanced English words that start with "A"

6. sail

we set sails

Can you see a sail on the horizon?

Was he quick with the sail?

Sail along the coast.

The only reason why Ferdinand Magellan could claim to be the first man to sail across all of the world's meridians was because Christopher Columbus had chosen to swim.

I love to sail forbidden seas, and land on barbarous coasts.

He taught them how to sail ships.

To reach the port of heaven, we must sail sometimes with the wind and sometimes against it— but we must sail, and not drift, nor lie at anchor.

The Daito-maru is scheduled to sail at 4:00.

Yesterdays storm damaged the sail.

During the day we used to paddle a canoe, sail or go on hikes in the countryside.

That new sail is huge!

Hoist your sail when the wind is fair.

Last July we sailed from Malta to Cairo in a big yach

The sun finally sailed behind the clouds and didnt reappear.

other words beginning with "A"

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