• Her hair was combed neatly, and her nails were nicely trimmed to make perfect round shapes.
• Byzantine architecture is distinguished by its use of the round arch, cross, circle, dome, and rich mosaic ornament.
• This has a vaulted ceiling supported on round arches.

• His personal trademark are the signs of an existential fatigue: drooping shoulders, round backs, knees that are bent inward, lowered heads.
• There is little or no excuse for round shoulders in healthy people.

• His round body was only slightly taller than her own.
• Jasmine kissed him on his bruised lips and pressed as much of her round body against him as she could.
• Lennie is a big man with great strength; his body and features are round and undefined.

Synonyms

• I felt my hand being pressed against a smooth, round mound.
• A large, round, smooth rock protruded suddenly a few feet past a break in the forest.
• Why are rocks found near rivers mostly smooth and round?

• The network of offices reached a round dozen this year.
• His output under his own name reached a round 200 novels.
• Strauss, who made a round 50 on Tuesday, was the only England batsman to pass 45 runs in the match.

Synonyms

• As to the money raised by local subscription, no definite apportionment has yet been made but we understand that Woodhouse will receive a good round sum.

• Take a round of fresh beef (or the half of one if it is very large) and remove the bone.
• I would appreciate some information on how to cook an inside round of beef using a slow cook method.

• She glanced up and down the hallway, checking for night nurses making their rounds.
• For as long as I could remember Doc Harris had been making his rounds in his trap with Lady, the grey mare.
• The other flight attendants continued making their rounds.

Synonyms

• A local delivery driver tells the Graun that he's had to be towed out of the area three times in two weeks, and now keeps the engine running when he's on his rounds.
• My very first job was doing a bread delivery round for the Co-op for six months.

• He looked tattered and damp, as if he'd just done ten rounds of mud wrestling.
• Worse than that is when Taylor prevents the timekeeper from ending the round during the big fight.

• It had been rather emotional for those groups that were eliminated in the second round.
• The competition consists of three rounds: preliminary, semi-final and final.
• The first time he entered, he was eliminated after the first round.

Synonyms

• Once the round of golf is over, the brothers can relax in the hotel's leisure complex.
• They just showed up once a quarter for a round of golf and a casual perusal of the books.
• Although he was about to turn 90, he looked trim and fit and boasted he had just returned from a robust round of golf at a nearby course.

• We order a round of drinks and then I head out to the dance floor.
• Andrew was at the bar, ordering a round of drinks for them all.
• Whenever someone has money, they invite their friends to go out to a neighborhood bar for a round of drinks.

• Refuelling at lunchtime consisted of rounds of scrumptious sandwiches and cake, with tea and coffee on tap.
• Kait and Pete had another round of sandwiches.

• She glanced round for a way out, frowning as she realised there wasn't one.
• Mark puts the phone down and glances round to take another look at the apartment.
• Amy peered round at the vast landscape surrounding her and held her fingers to her nose to block the awful stench of rotting corpses.

• Thumping drum and bass booms out, then cans of cider are passed round.
• After the traditional toasts to Church and Queen and the ancient house, a drinking horn used for the purpose ever since the college was founded was passed round as a loving cup.
• Now the hubble-bubble pipes are being passed round, and al-Madfai changes direction yet again.

• To give a sense of enclosure, and to avoid the long back rows common to most fan-shaped auditoria, the rear wall is brought round in a wide curve, embracing the audience.
• The way the site curves round to embrace the harbour with a view back across the town seemed to offer an ideal position.
• The path twisted round and round for what felt like an eternity.

• If you connect an LED the wrong way round it won't kill it - it just wont produce any light.
• Will you please not email me to tell me the pics above are the wrong way round.
• I turn arrows and street signs the wrong way round and chuckle at the thought of people getting lost.

• This is surely tackling the issue the wrong way round.
• She has criticised the whole modern theory of human rights as being conceived the wrong way round.
• With public relations people, it is the other way round.

• It is twenty hundred feet round and has a Plexiglas ring going around it.
• About 20 feet round and extending up and down seemingly forever, it neatly severed the bridge.

• Do you know your way round yet?
• A rehabilitation plan was devised with a particular emphasis on teaching Jonathon the skills necessary to find his way round independently in unfamiliar places.

• She loved to make them angry by bringing her friends round for meals at her house.
• If you can't bear to miss the football or that chick flick you've always wanted to see, go watch it round at a friend's house.
• If it's being played at a party, how does it know if you're taking money at the door, rather than just having a few friends round?

• The film is based round real events.
• His analysis here is focused round the capitalist ‘commodity’.
• That book centred round one field trip to the islands.

• ‘You're crazy,’ I laughed, flicking his hair out his eyes affectionately as he put his arm round my shoulder.
• She gave me a dazzling smile and we walked to the bathroom together, and after making sure it was empty she grabbed me, and our lips met, our arms round each other.
• Eventually we lay giggling in the grass with our arms round each other.

• I glance around nervously but the car park is round the back of the warehouse and everything seems fairly deserted.
• We used to have a skate park round the corner from our place in Manchester.
• She catches up with them just round the block.

• He is in dire need of a pretty good clip round the ear.
• Alternatively - as my wife has just reminded me with a firm clip round the ear - Michel could just leave her chest as God intended and find someone to love her as she is.
• Eventually Conan wrestled Clarence to the ground and boxed him round the ears, making Clarence's head swim.

• I muttered under my breath, my almond shaped eyes rounding to replicate saucers.
• ‘What do you mean?’ she asked, her blue eyes, rounding in question.

• Most Australians can achieve this accent by ‘rounding the vowels’ and concentrating on speaking ‘properly’.
• She speaks very fast, with a Spanish accent that rounds her vowels.
• If he rounds his vowels a bit more his accent will drop.