Round

We sat at a round table to make conversation easier.

The flowers glowed red and golden: snapdragons and sunflowers, and nasturtians^([sic]) trailing all over the turf walls and peeping in at the round windows.

The ancient Egyptian demonstrated that the Earth is round, not flat.

a round belly

a round face

If I close my eyes I can see Marie today as I saw her then. Round, rosy face, snub nose, dark hair piled up in a chignon.

Our child's bed has round corners for safety.

He was tall and thin but his wife was short and round.

The baker sold us a round dozen.

Round was their pace at first, but slackened soon: / A stranger meeting them had surely thought, / They rode so slowly and they look'd so pale, / That each had suffer'd some exceeding wrong.

One hundred is a nice round number.

"Supposing somebody sees you, with all those flowers too? Supposing somebody writes him a letter? Ooooh!" (a pure round open Tamil O.)

a round answer

a round oath

the round assertion

Sir Toby, I muſt be round with you.

Well, she must be plain with him, round with him, while she must not betray her child.

In his satires Horace is quick, round, and[…]pleasant.

Round dealing is the honour of man's nature.

I have a good banker in this city, but I would not wish to draw upon the house until the time when I shall draw for a round sum.

By raising turkeys the farmers were able the more surely to pay their rents. Young girls often acquired a very sufficient dowry, and towns-folk who wished to eat them had to pay round prices for them.

round trip, round journey, round walk

in labyrinth of many a round self-rolled

Serene, smiling, enigmatic, she faced him with no fear whatever showing in her dark eyes. [...] She put back a truant curl from her forehead where it had sought egress to the world, and looked him full in the face now, drawing a deep breath which caused the round of her bosom to lift the lace at her throat.

All at once the sun was through, a round of dulled silver, racing slantwise through the clouds yet always staying in the same place.

hospital rounds

The prison guards have started their nightly rounds.

Edward Churchill still attended to his work in a hopeless mechanical manner like a sleep-walker who walks safely on a well-known round. But his Roman collar galled him, his cossack stifled him, his biretta was as uncomfortable as a merry-andrew's cap and bells.

The candidate got a round of applause after every sentence or two.

They brought us a round of drinks about every thirty minutes.

There is a snaky gleam in her hard grey eye, as of anticipated rounds of buttered toast, relays of hot chops, worryings and quellings of young children, sharp snappings at poor Berry, and all the other delights of her Ogress's castle.

I said I did impersonations would you like to see Turned around to buy her one more round

Daniel underwent one round of chemotherapy in February but stopped after that single treatment, citing religious beliefs.

For breakfast I had two rounds of toast and a mug of tea.

And though Fightville, an MMA documentary from the directors of the fine Iraq War doc Gunner Palace, presents it more than fairly, the sight of a makeshift ring getting constructed on a Louisiana rodeo ground does little to shake the label. Nor do the shots of ringside assistants with spray bottles and rags, mopping up the blood between rounds

qualifying rounds of the championship

When the player uses one shell to complete a round within 50 seconds, it vanishes forever. At the end of two successful rounds, for instance, the player has only two shells to pick from during docking.

All furniture in the nursery had rounds on the edges and in the crevices.

All the rounds like Jacob's ladder rise.

The perpendicular parts of this side ladder, as is usually the case with swinging ones, were of cloth-covered rope, only the rounds were of wood, so that at every step there was a joint.

the round of the seasons    a round of pleasures

On life's long round by chance I found A dell impearled with dew, Where hyacinths, gushing from the ground, Lent to the earth heaven's native hue Of holy blue.

Women to cards may be compar'd: we play ¶ A round or two; when us'd, we throw away.

[…]the Feaſt was ſerv'd; the Bowl was crown'd; To the King's Pleaſure went the mirthful Round: […]

The trivial round, the common task, Would furnish all we ought to ask; […]

Come, knit hands, and beat the ground, In a light fantastic round.

A Cave[…], Where light and darkness in perpetual round Lodge and dislodge by turns.

a round of politicians

I look round the room quickly to make sure it's neat.

The serpent Error twines round human hearts.

The farmer fed his cow hay all the year round.

The invitations were sent round accordingly.

They travelled for thirteen hours down-hill, whilst the streams broadened and the mountains shrank, and the vegetation changed, and the people ceased being ugly and drinking beer, and began instead to drink wine and to be beautiful. And the train which had picked them at sunrise out of a waste of glaciers and hotels was waltzing at sunset round the walls of Verona.

The carpenter rounded the edges of the table.

Worms with many feet, which round themselves into balls, are bred chiefly under logs of timber.

The figures on our modern medals are raiſed and rounded to a very great perfection.

The girl's figure, he perceived, was admirably proportioned; she was evidently at the period when the angles of childhood were rounding into the promising curves of adolescence.

She rounded out her education with only a single mathematics class.

We are such stuff As dreams are made on, and our little life Is rounded with a sleep.

The exact amount was $101.65, but we rounded it to $100.

95.9 rounds to 96.

Helen watched him until he rounded the corner.

As a group of policemen went past him, one of them rounded on him, grabbing him by the arm.

And the runners round the bases on the double by Jones.

Diouf rounded Zaluska near the byeline and crossed but Daniel Majstorovic headed away and Celtic eventually mopped up the danger.

The inclusive verge Of golden metal that must round my brow.

The queen your mother rounds apace.

So rounds he to a separate mind ⁠From whence clear memory may begin, ⁠As thro’ the frame that binds him in His isolation grows defined.

They […] nightly rounding walk.

rounded in the ear

The Bishop of Glasgow rounding in his ear, "Ye are not a wise man," […] he rounded likewise to the bishop, and said, "Wherefore brought ye me here?"

Tiberius the emperor […] perceiving a fellow round a dead corse in the ear, would needs know wherefore he did so […]