Example sentences for: thereabouts

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

  • I was once at a Jewish friend's birthday party where somehow the guests, mostly Jewish, got to talking about their grandparents, most of whom came from Kiev and thereabouts.

  • The four weekly events are: an op-ed in the style of the New York Times (750 words or thereabouts); a New Yorker "Talk of the Town" piece (750 words or thereabouts); the first 1,000 words of a Vanity Fair profile; and a breaking news story (750 words or thereabouts).

  • The result is a fairly schematic narrative: The young hothead of the early Celtic Revivalist years produces lovely impracticalities until 1914, when Ireland explodes; he learns about reality, becomes a great poet of civil war, and a modernist to boot; after 1925, or thereabouts, he becomes one of those "monuments of unageing intellect" about whom he writes in "Sailing to Byzantium"--the splendid complainer of the late verse.

  • (Or thereabouts.)

  • Michael's first column will appear Tuesday, Oct. 28 (or thereabouts).


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