How to Use around about in a Sentence

around about

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  • This is one of those movies that’s moved around about 300 times.
    Bill Goodykoontz, The Arizona Republic, 24 May 2021
  • The transfers were one of the concerns thrown around about Harsin.
    Nubyjas Wilborn | [email protected], al, 20 Feb. 2022
  • Quit joking around about little green men and flying saucers.
    Sarah Polus, The Hill, 22 Mar. 2025
  • How much calling around about casts and crews happens before arriving on a set?
    Lacey Rose, The Hollywood Reporter, 6 Jan. 2022
  • Even the bicycle had only been around about a half a century.
    Terry Shaw, Twin Cities, 17 Apr. 2024
  • Within a few days, Exum was sending links around about the shooting.
    Ruby Cramer, New Yorker, 12 Mar. 2026
  • Two weeks later, word started to get around about the first person in town who’d contracted the virus.
    Lizzie Presser, ProPublica, 15 Dec. 2020
  • There are many ideas floating around about the best way to clean windows, from using newspaper to squeegees to sponges.
    Nellah Bailey McGough, Southern Living, 26 Oct. 2025
  • There were many, many years when it was tossed around about going in (to the Rock Hall) or not going in.
    Gary Graff, Billboard, 4 May 2022
  • The Arpía 1 weighs around about 190 pounds, can fly for and has a range of about 60 miles.
    Antonio María Delgado, Miami Herald, 28 Aug. 2025
  • Word got around about her amazing work and demand skyrocketed.
    Essence, 29 June 2022
  • It was first listed around about six years ago for more than $14 million and had at one point failed to sell at auction.
    Orianna Rosa Royle, Fortune, 15 June 2024
  • All the talk flying around about a looming recession is starting to spook consumers.
    Larry Edelman, BostonGlobe.com, 17 Apr. 2023
  • Weld County As word spread around about the missing cows, so too did the concern from ranchers.
    Jesse Sarles, CBS News, 12 Dec. 2025
  • There are vastly different numbers floating around about the great wealth transfer.
    Alex Harring, CNBC, 17 July 2026
  • And that’s the sort of fundamental insight that came out of physics around about 1950 or so.
    Quanta Magazine, 20 June 2024
  • The 9-month trip to Mars has a tight 10-day launch window that only comes around about once every two years.
    Paul Best, Fox News, 17 Mar. 2022
  • There were a couple of TikTok videos floating around about that funny kind of vocal melody.
    Noah Eckstein, Variety, 24 Dec. 2022
  • Laura is already hinting around about wanting to invite her sister and husband.
    Abigail Van Buren, oregonlive, 24 Jan. 2022
  • Things that aren't happening A lot of rumors have been flying around about the Kīlauea eruption.
    Erik Klemetti, Discover Magazine, 18 May 2018
  • This is just one of the conspiracy theories swirling around about Mangione, though.
    David Gilbert, WIRED, 16 Dec. 2024
  • But for a number of leagues, there has been quite a dramatic impact, with the ratio falling to around about one - equal numbers of home and away wins.
    James Reade, Forbes, 19 Mar. 2021
  • Only two types of monotremes, the platypus and echidna, still exist, but more monotreme species were around about 100 million years ago.
    Elizabeth Rayne, Ars Technica, 7 June 2024
  • While most would say heartfelt comments about their cast mates, Ken decided to kid around about the status of their camaraderie.
    Adrianna Freedman, Good Housekeeping, 15 Feb. 2023
  • So there’ll be lots and lots and lots of discussions around about how that should occur and what’s the best sequence to use or what is the best virus to use in order to build that.
    Helen Branswell, STAT, 4 Jan. 2022
  • He was found driving around about four miles away in the area of West Fourth Avenue and 18th Street.
    Devoun Cetoute, Miami Herald, 11 Mar. 2026
  • In the planning stages there was an idea tossed around about a purple jacket, which was dismissed after Huang met with Farrell.
    Rachel Elspeth Gross, Forbes, 18 Sep. 2024
  • But around about a hundred years ago, all those waterways were redirected to farms, and the lake bed itself got plowed and cultivated for crops.
    Patt Morrison, Los Angeles Times, 25 July 2023
  • Simmers told Dateline there are many theories floating around about what could have happened to Betsy.
    NBC News, 28 Nov. 2021
  • The city has been in public turmoil in recent years, with accusations thrown around about bribes, special favors and abuses of power.
    Michelle Marchante, Miami Herald, 16 Mar. 2026

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