How to Use show (someone) around in a Sentence

show (someone) around

phrasal verb
  • And many of them checked out on the show around season three.
    Jen Chaney, Vulture, 1 July 2024
  • The Weeknd will perform the halftime show around 8 p.m. ET.
    Rebecca Alter, Vulture, 3 Feb. 2021
  • The Grammy-winning singer kicked off the show around 8:02 p.m.
    Caché McClay, USA Today, 25 May 2025
  • Always look up at night—the stars are the greatest free show around.
    Cnt Editors, Condé Nast Traveler, 28 June 2023
  • Looking forward to tour and take my one-man show around the world.
    Karen Mizoguchi, PEOPLE.com, 24 Sep. 2020
  • Shaping the show around him is requires a bit more effort.
    Kelly Lawler, USA TODAY, 12 Feb. 2024
  • That bad idea was to build a show around the 15th-century invention of the printing press.
    Marley Marius, Vogue, 7 Sep. 2023
  • The hippest late-night talk show around returns for Season 4, and reverts to its once-show-per-week schedule.
    oregonlive, 8 Mar. 2022
  • Sara is usually providing both the pace and the wall; her charisma onstage bends the show around her.
    Helen Shaw, Vulture, 28 Mar. 2022
  • The first is an obvious progression: taking his show around the world.
    Los Angeles Times, 4 May 2022
  • Mike Tirico will host the studio show around the live racing coverage.
    Michael McCleary, The Indianapolis Star, 26 May 2019
  • Missing the mobile wave The cracks in Intel’s dominance first began to show around 2010.
    Clare Duffy, CNN, 4 Dec. 2024
  • As the eight-episode season progresses, and the stripteases become sleeker, the show around them only gets messier.
    Inkoo Kang, The New Yorker, 12 Dec. 2022
  • While the women in the leopard bustiers are memorable, there aren’t any actual cast members from the show around.
    Jenn Harris, Los Angeles Times, 12 June 2023
  • The company has built an entire traveling show around its bags and trunks.
    Robin Givhan, Washington Post, 15 Feb. 2023
  • Seville has built her show around glamor, cabaret-style performances and campy humor.
    Laura Latzko, The Arizona Republic, 23 July 2021
  • With the exception of one episode in which Rostov gets very sad about his predicament, he isn’t tormented, and the show around him matches his tone.
    Daniel Fienberg, The Hollywood Reporter, 27 Mar. 2024
  • The show’s global performance has been even stronger, with Only Murders ranking as the 15th most in-demand show around the world at one point last week.
    Josef Adalian, Vulture, 7 Oct. 2021
  • Larry Hass bills himself as the philosopher magician and themes his show around ideas and beliefs.
    Kayla Samoy, Chicago Tribune, 22 June 2023
  • Even as the show around her stutters, Garner leans into her role with a vulpine, barely there grin that proves irresistible.
    Caroline Framke, Variety, 9 Feb. 2022
  • Photos in court documents show around 15 men at the Cuna del Sol raising glasses of wine.
    Arturo Torres, Washington Post, 13 Jan. 2024
  • Assembled in the show around Dave are friends who have been absorbed by his ambition to become a global star.
    Oliver Munday, The Atlantic, 17 July 2023
  • Now, at the same venue, comes Larry Hass, who bills himself as the philosopher magician, theming his show around ideas and beliefs.
    Chris Jones, Chicago Tribune, 19 June 2023
  • And with times changing, why not reboot the show around a group of women who better represent New York City today?
    Louis Staples, Rolling Stone, 13 May 2025
  • When a team loses frequently, the rigors of an 82-game season can start to show around January.
    Tony Jones, The Athletic, 6 Jan. 2025
  • For a family that thrives on the weird and surreal, a musical variety show around the Addams might have been too bizarre even for them.
    Lee Escobedo, EW.com, 7 Dec. 2022
  • The data from iSpot show around 46% of the ad dollars spent on the programs are for pharmaceutical products.
    Stephen Battaglio, Twin Cities, 18 May 2025
  • So Brown agreed to collaborate with Norman and director Bartlett Sher to build a show around that central conflict — and to take some liberties with the rest of the text.
    Thomas Floyd, Washington Post, 16 Aug. 2023
  • The show around him tends to follow suit, although with fewer laughs than anyone should expect from a half-hour series created by Fey & Co.
    Ben Travers, IndieWire, 1 May 2025
  • Pagett pointed to previous studies that show around 30% of adults over 70 have trouble walking, getting out of a chair or climbing steps.
    Melissa Rudy, Fox News, 9 Mar. 2025

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