Example sentences for: around

How can you use “around” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • The idea of enlisting the immune system to fight cancer has been around for a long time, and has led to the development of various cancer vaccines designed to alert the immune system to the presence of a tumor and to induce a response that, selectively and potently, will eliminate tumor cells.

  • As Lola dashes by, the camera revolves around her mother's room, then swoops in on a TV screen where a cartoon Lola is flying down a circular staircase past a neighbor's barking dog and out into the street, where she's live-action again and ready to run for her boyfriend's life.

  • (And, thank God, nobody got around to slipping Prince's "1999" into a movie.

  • From the beginning, ev psych has portrayed the war between the sexes as both natural and inevitable: Men have to spread their genes around by having sex promiscuously and by whatever means necessary; women lavish their scarce reproductive resources only on partners who'll stick around to ensure that their children thrive.

  • Before the night was over, Jennings was asking whether "we're going to see a real power struggle now between moderate Republican governors and the leadership in Congress," and ABC analyst George Will was predicting a showdown in 2000, with moderates rallying around George W. Bush.


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