Around in a sentence as an adverb

Had they not squeezed me out, no doubt I'd still be hanging on trying to turn things around.

You don't get to screw around with other people's lives and continue to possess the title of "good guy".

These are little belt packs you carry around while wired-up and that record your ECG for 24-48 hours at a time.

There were a lot of wacky ones around externalizing services, but not as many as you might think.

I called the police, they got the description from me over the phone, and the cops showed up in a car in around 90 seconds.

But to turn around and smile and take a picture, post it to Twitter, and then continue on calling oneself Joan of Arc?

Supposedly he saved something around 40% of his take home pay, despite living alone in Boston.

How much scapegoating happens even today around immigrants and crime, jobs, culture, etc.?

"But sir, we have no ties to countryX. We dont have visa to countryX. We have a Canadian passport, if you dont want to admit us then let us just turn around and go to Canada".

They then asked me to get in the car and we drove around looking for the guy, found him, and they arrested him, and returned the car owners stuff.

Craning her neck to stare at that stupid dim little screen instead of just looking around at the beautiful neighborhood I lived in.

This means malaria must be really good at two things: keeping its host walking around and going undetected for as long as possible.

The site charged for access to, and provided advertising around, pirated content.

The pay is usually better and it's a natural career progression most organizations are built around.

A group of people will go out, and unanimously decide to ***** and pinch and swipe their glass worship stones instead of having a ******* conversation or looking around them.

They've made some fundamentally non-open choices, particularly around their mobile platform.

Paragraph 14 on page 34 is pretty typical: It says, in effect, "you'd better take your best shot at contesting this rejection now, Apple, because the next time around it will be a final rejection."7.

His entire concept of his job revolved around being the authoritative interface for retrieving and maintaining pieces of data that were no longer exclusively under his control.

It pains me to see so many people, who quite likely rely on emacs, Xcode with gcc, gnu coreutils, or an operating system that would've never been possible without the Free software movement, sit around and ridicule RMS because he eats toe jam or really, really likes parrots.

Around definitions

adverb

in the area or vicinity; "a few spectators standing about"; "hanging around"; "waited around for the next flight"

See also: about

adverb

by a circular or circuitous route; "He came all the way around the base"; "the road goes around the pond"

adverb

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"

See also: about

adverb

in a circle or circular motion; "The wheels are spinning around"

adverb

(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 about some roughly

adverb

in or to a reversed position or direction; "about face"; "suddenly she turned around"

See also: about

adverb

to a particular destination either specified or understood; "she came around to see me"; "I invited them around for supper"

adverb

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"

See also: about

adverb

in circumference; "the trunk is ten feet around"; "the pond is two miles around"

adverb

from beginning to end; throughout; "It rains all year round on Skye"; "frigid weather the year around"

See also: round