Example sentences for: rounds

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

  • He said that in Iraq, where the United States fired more than 860,000 DU rounds during the 1991 Gulf War, doctors subsequently found "an exponential increase in child cancers and deformities" among families living close to the targets.

  • Early in Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me , the stumpy, snaggletoothed British secret agent (Mike Myers) survives an assassination attempt by his new bride, Vanessa (Elizabeth Hurley), who turns out to have been a "fembot" programmed by his nemesis, Dr. Evil (also Myers), to blow up the couple's honeymoon suite after 15 rounds of zealous humping.

  • A joke making the rounds in Cuba:

  • A great many words in Quechua begin with hua- or gua- (used interchangeably), so when the hacienda owner tells his Indian quachimán to keep a sharp lookout on his nightly rounds, neither may realize that the word derives from watchman . And when Mami is persuaded that daughter needs a new sweater and buys her a chompa , neither may think of the long departed Englishwomen whose jumpers brought the word into the language.

  • Over the summer I ran up a tab at my local General Nutrition Center--a chain with booming sales growth largely because it rounds up the usual supplements.


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