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Example sentences for "went around"

  • Mr. Potts has suffered a good deal from the toothache, and one day he went around to the office of Dr.

  • He couldn't make it stay up, however, and they say he went around inquiring in his native tongue what kind of an idiot it was that constructed a garment that wouldn't hang on, and swearing some of the most awful heathen oaths.

  • From there I reached the back dining-room door easy enough, went around to the kitchen, and called Leon softly.

  • Quick as a shot his arm reached out and went around her.

  • About ten o‘clock, all things being favorable, I went around to the opposite side of town and started in through an open street, walking leisurely, but keeping near the buildings.

  • We made our way on foot toward them, but found that the end of the lane was guarded; we went around to the other end and found it guarded also, while the horses were in the middle, tied to one of the fences.

  • I went around to the kitchen window, and upon looking in to my great joy I saw the Federals eating their supper.

  • I went around to the Legation and fixed it up with the guard.

  • I went around to the headquarters after my call at the Foreign Office, to make a little contribution of my own and to leave others for members of our official family.

  • This afternoon I went around to the Rue Ducale to take a look at the French Legation.

  • I went around to see him late in the evening, and made the final arrangements.

  • I went around to the rest of these Washington fellows on the Friday evening before the race and told them again about Jodan.

  • I happened to be close to the seedy man when he went around according to his custom, putting down small bets on his horse.

  • He went around to the business men of The Dalles who had been wiped out by the fire and asked them what they wanted with him.

  • Instead of going home he went around by the depot, and bestowed searching glances on each building as he passed by.

  • Next day he went around to that lawyer's office and he said that he had found Christ.

  • He did not speak to me, but I went around to the foot of the bed and looked in his face and said, "Won't you speak to me?

  • He had been the chairman of an infidel club for years, I went around to where he was and sat down by him.

  • I was beginning to get tired of this sort of thing so next morning early I went around to see another man in the town.

  • Then I went around to the back door, which was near where my samples were, marched right in and caught the old man in the act.

  • Really, I went around to see him just for a personal call.

  • The next time I went around to his town I wore the same old good smile and everything of that kind but I soon saw that he did not take to me as kindly as before.

  • I went around to San Francisco, and there joined "the gray-eyed man of destiny," General Walker.

  • I went around to the Mission that night, and went up to the front.

  • I went around to a friend of mine on First street, and he was not there.

  • So, with Brother Holcombe, I went around to the revival meeting at the Fifth and Walnut-street church.

  • When we went around to lynch him the next day he explained desperately that at the last minute he found he had forgotten to get a lawn necktie.

  • We went around to see the dog the next day.

  • Then I went around in front of him to stop him--and he ran right over me.

  • The colonel was obliged to confess to Miss Laura his temporary setback, which he went around to the house and did immediately.

  • Nineteen Time slipped rapidly by, and the colonel had been in Clarendon a couple of months when he went home one afternoon, and not finding Phil and Peter, went around to the Treadwells' as the most likely place to seek them.

  • There was sincere rejoicing at the Treadwell house when Ben, now free in mind, went around to see the ladies.

  • Then I went around to the alleys, and started cruising the alley in my squad car.

  • We went around to the back of the building up to the fifth floor.

  • I went around by the Gentlemen's Club which I believe is 125 Patton.

  • Daniel, worried about Eleanore, went around in a dazed condition.

  • He went around to his house, and sent in his card.

  • Old Jordan was consideration itself: he went around in his stocking feet so as not to disturb him.

  • After I had completed the cutdown, I went around to the right side of the patient and saw the head wound.

  • When I went around to the other side of the car I saw the condition of his head.

  • While all the Secret Service men were moving Governor Connally I went around to the other side of the car to try to help with the President and then we got him onto the second cart and then took him straight over to trauma room 1.

  • I helped to lift his head and Mrs. Kennedy pushed me away and lifted his head herself onto the cart and so I went around back to the cart and walked off with it.

  • Add to all this the fact that he went around with us without charge, and it will be seen that we were well favored.

  • At a later hour I went around to the mission conducted by Bro.

  • The ship stopped at Alexandria, and I went around in the city, seeing nothing of equal interest to Pompey's Pillar, a monument standing ninety-eight feet and nine inches high.

  • After supper, eaten in Jericho, we went around to a Bedouin encampment, where a dance was being executed--a dance different from any that I had ever seen before.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "went around" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.


    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    deputy marshal; hollow sphere; live births; major exporter; question about; upper leaves; went abroad; went afterwards; went again; went aloft; went along; went and; went around; went away; went back; went down; went every; went first; went home; went into; went slowly; went thither; went through; went towards; went yesterday; white when