24 example sentences using about.
About used in a sentence
About in a sentence as an adjective
If they wanted to be up front about it, they'd explain it on the home page.
Reasons:* The commenters who are warning about burnout are right.
Everything Steve says about Amazon is true, only, it was much worse.
Coworker was building a new house, and when it came to the numbers it was let loose that it was going to cost about $700K.
I just got off the phone with the White House and they're really enthusiastic about getting this fixed.
One of the team members marched in and told me about it when they launched, and I asked: "So is it the Stalker API?
When I arrived, both officers denied saying I was required to carry ID when I asked the captain about the law.
To function well in society, it's beneficial to understand a little about how they work, and how to make them do things.
A fat one, filled with amusing anecdotes about ants and rubber mallets at companies I've worked at.
It's not even super clear whose mom he was talking about, and doesn't really matter, because nobody's mom can use the goddamn website.
It now 404's so I've posted it here:Stevey's Google Platforms RantI was at Amazon for about six and a half years, and now I've been at Google for that long.
Recently I was with a customer, making notes about changes I needed to make to their application.
About in a sentence as an adverb
We're talking about a guy who in all seriousness has said on many public occasions that people should be paying him to work at Amazon.
If you lose your ability to feel joy and excitement about programming-related things, you'll be unable to do the best work.
As the main developer of VLC, we know about this story since a long time, and this is just Dell putting **** components on their machine and blaming others.
They don't give a single **** about charity or helping the needy or community contributions or anything like that.
They lie about download numbers, about download size, about number of software actually installed and about their connexions.
But the Chrome team is flat-out arrogant here: they want to build a zero-configuration product, and they're quite brazen about it, and **** You if you're blind or deaf or whatever.
I can't even imagine being held captive without arrest for hours, being questioned about the purpose of my trip, about my religion and habits, all while travelling within my country.
There was lots of existing documentation and lore about SOAs, but at Amazon's vast scale it was about as useful as telling Indiana Jones to look both ways before crossing the street.
From the time Bezos issued his edict through the time I left, Amazon had transformed culturally into a company that thinks about everything in a services-first fashion.
One thing that struck me immediately about the two companies -- an impression that has been reinforced almost daily -- is that Amazon does everything wrong, and Google does everything right.
"I read a great article a while back that I unfortunately can't find now, but it talked about a CEO who thought he was having a casual "hey, I'm interested in developing my skills, can you mentor me a bit?
You 150-odd ex-Amazon folks here will of course realize immediately that #7 was a little joke I threw in, because Bezos most definitely does not give a **** about your day.#6, however, was quite real, so people went to work.
About definitions
on the move; "up and about"; "the whole town was astir over the incident"
(of quantities) imprecise but fairly close to correct; "lasted approximately an hour"; "in just about a minute"; "he's about 30 years old"; "I've had about all I can stand"; "we meet about once a month"; "some forty people came"; "weighs around a hundred pounds"; "roughly $3,000"; "holds 3 gallons, more or less"; "20 or so people were at the party"
See also: approximately some roughly around
all around or on all sides; "dirty clothes lying around (or about)"; "let's look about for help"; "There were trees growing all around"; "she looked around her"
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in the area or vicinity; "a few spectators standing about"; "hanging around"; "waited around for the next flight"
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used of movement to or among many different places or in no particular direction; "wandering about with no place to go"; "people were rushing about"; "news gets around (or about)"; "traveled around in Asia"; "he needs advice from someone who's been around"; "she sleeps around"
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in or to a reversed position or direction; "about face"; "suddenly she turned around"
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in rotation or succession; "turn about is fair play"
(of actions or states) slightly short of or not quite accomplished; all but; "the job is (just) about done"; "the baby was almost asleep when the alarm sounded"; "we're almost finished"; "the car all but ran her down"; "he nearly fainted"; "talked for nigh onto 2 hours"; "the recording is well-nigh perfect"; "virtually all the parties signed the contract"; "I was near exhausted by the run"; "most everyone agrees"