round about in English

adjective
1
not following a short direct route; circuitous.
we need to take a roundabout route to throw off any pursuit
noun
1
a close-fitting, waist-length jacket worn by men and boys.

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Below are sample sentences containing the word "round about" from the English Dictionary. We can refer to these sentence patterns for sentences in case of finding sample sentences with the word "round about", or refer to the context using the word "round about" in the English Dictionary.

1. She's round about 26 or

2. We're leaving round about ten.

3. We're leaving round about midday.

4. They arrived round about 7 o'clock.

5. We heard gunshots round about midnight.

6. 20 We heard gunshots round about midnight.

7. He owned all the land round about .

8. We left the restaurant at round about

9. He left the house round about four o'clock.

10. Circumambulate (verb) to walk round about Etymology: [L

11. Injun Joe's ghost is round about there, certain. "

12. We got there round about half past nine.

13. What does Bework mean? To work round about; surround

14. He's round about the same age as my son.

15. A new roof will cost round about £3 000.

16. A creeper was entwined ( a ) round [ about ] the pillar.

17. Round about one and a half million people died.

18. The girls danced lightly round about the maypole. Sentencedict.com

19. The job should be finished round about March next year.

20. Rumours are going round about Mr Mason and his assistant.

21. My first offence was round about the age of eleven - shoplifting.

22. The nations round about had kings, and the Israelites wanted one too!

23. The topmost portion was roofed, but open, with bronze columns round about.

24. More permanent campsites were sometimes protected by trenches and dirt mounds round about.

25. Round about Grace herself the great river deposited little but mounds of plastic containers.

26. Round about her shapely head A garland of dog-violet...meetly had she set.

27. Circumlocution, therefore, means “expressing oneself in a round about way.” Circumlocution has its uses

28. Lend your aid and come, all you nations round about, and collect yourselves together.’”

29. When the water boils, add the pasta, stir, and cook for round about six minutes.

30. And looking round about upon them all, he said unto the man, Stretch forth thy hand.

31. And the report of him went out straightway everywhere into the region of Galilee round about.

32. His troops come together, and raise up their way against me, encamp round about my tabernacle.

33. Round about the Elephant and Castle I decided to call a truce and talk to him.

34. And all the pins of the tabernacle, and of the court round about, were of brass.

35. From Old Portuguese Ambos, from Latin ambō, ambōs, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂m̥bʰi (“round about, around”).

36. 16 The door posts, and the narrow windows, and the galleries round about on their three stories, over against the door, Ceiled with wood round about, and from the ground up to the windows, and the windows were covered; # Ceiled…: Heb

37. You're a charwoman for Mrs Charlton, but round about here they have a number of names for you.

38. The cries echoed into the surrounding wood and resounded in the empty hills `round about: loud, bellowing, Bloodlusting cries

39. 2 You're a charwoman for Mrs Charlton, but round about here they have a number of names for you.

40. (Ezekiel 3:4) Later, Ezekiel’s message widened out to include the pagan nations round about. —Ezekiel, chapters 25–32.

41. I was risking no man of my village or those round about being charged with stealing a thing of value.

42. The Old Testament records them running after false gods, the gods of the nations round about them, whenever opportunity offered.

43. These reflections take more round-about routes than the direct sounds, and are therefore delayed slightly relative to the direct sounds.

44. It seems to me that he was waylaid and killed round about a quarter or half of the hour past six.

45. Late 15th century from Latin Circumjacent- ‘lying round about, bordering upon’, from the verb circumjacere, from circum ‘around’ + jacere ‘to lie’.

46. Round about the circle from which four lanes led down to the top of the amphitheater there were various assembly-service installations.

47. The names of the little towns round about Valence ring like peals of bells compelling you to go and look at them.

48. 6 The Old Testament records them running after false gods, the gods of the nations round about them,[www.Sentencedict.com] whenever opportunity offered.

49. Circumjacent (adj.) "bordering on every side," late 15c., from Latin circumiacens, present participle of circumiacere "to border upon, to lie round about, enjoin," from circum "around, round about" (see circum-) + iacere "to throw, cast, hurl" (from PIE root *ye- "to throw, impel").

50. 26 For behold, Moronihah had supposed that the Lamanites durst not come into the center of the land, but that they would attack the cities round about in the borders as they had hitherto done; therefore Moronihah had caused that their strong armies should maintain those parts round about by the borders.