Word info

around and around

Adverb

Meaning

around and around (not comparable)

Alternative form of round and round

Source: en.wiktionary.org

Examples

... and when he put his mind to it, he could make his words coil themselves around and around the listener until they held her in some sort of a mild hypnotic spell. Roald Dahl

This job offers broad opportunity for travel-around and around and around the block. And to think-some girls settle for Europe. Valerie Solanas

Around and around the house the leaves fall thick, but never fast, for they come circling down with a dead lightness that is sombre and slow. Charles Dickens

At the first screening, there were a lot of areas that we went around and around about. Then we had our second screening. It played better. It's almost a reasonable length film now! Terry Gilliam

I have asked the village blacksmith to forge golden chains to tie our ankles together. I have gathered all the gay ribbons in the world to wind around and around and around and around and around and around again around our two waists. Harry Crosby

With a labyrinth, you make a choice to go in - and once you've chosen, around and around you go. But you always find your way to the center. Jeff Bridges

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