rally around

phrase

: to join together to support (someone or something) in a difficult time or situation

We rallied around our neighbors when their house burned down.

When the town library lost its funding, the community rallied around it.

Examples of rally around in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

My community was far more excited to rally around the honesty of failure than the façade of success. — Jp Saxe, Variety, 28 July 2026

Down in the Texas hill country they’re called mountains, and, true to instinct, Moss’s sheep rally around the little hills. — Jack O'Connor, Outdoor Life, 23 July 2026

Yet talent, capital, and customers do not rally around products alone. — Thijn Lamers, Fortune, 23 July 2026

Even when BookTok does rally around a quote-unquote serious writer—such as Sally Rooney or Ottessa Moshfegh—there is a veneer of genre favoritism and eerie self-identification. — Brady Brickner-Wood, New Yorker, 8 July 2026

Rhymes for rally around

• abound
• aground
• astound
• background
• campground
• clothbound
• confound
• earthbound
• eastbound
• expound
• fairground
• foreground