Example sentences for: around-the-world

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

  • Hughes' around-the-world flights made real the idea of global air travel.

  • Rutan, you may remember, is one of the true adventurers of the age: In 1986, he piloted the Voyager airplane on its astonishing nonstop, around-the-world journey.

  • William Burroughs said that words are an around-the-world, ox-cart way of doing things, awkward instruments, eventually to be laid aside.

  • The around-the-world balloon race, by contrast, is a nonsensical exercise.

  • The NYT lead communicates the vast, unprecedented scope of the revel, noting besides the hometown $7 million bash attended by perhaps 2 million people, an "around-the-world series of golden moments" in the Pacific, Asia, Africa, Europe, and the Americas.


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