How to Use revolve around in a Sentence

revolve around

phrasal verb
Definition of revolve aroundnext
  • Which means, drum roll please, that most films that flop revolve around white, straight men.
    — Mary McNamara, Los Angeles Times, 3 Apr. 2024
  • Everything revolves around the sun, but the moon revolves around the Earth.
    — Carlo Rovelli, WSJ, 28 Dec. 2023
  • That alerts the counselors who staff the lines that the texter’s concerns revolve around the election.
    — Alice Park, TIME, 25 Oct. 2024
  • The film revolves around a non-couple who have to pretend to be a couple?
    — Emma Specter, Vogue, 20 Oct. 2023
  • The film-within-the-film revolves around a Black male artist and his three Black female models.
    — Richard Brody, The New Yorker, 12 June 2024
  • The queries aimed at me mostly revolve around the White Nationalists in the room that night back in 2018.
    — Alex Edelman, TIME, 5 Apr. 2024
  • With Andy Reid there, the offense doesn't revolve around one person.
    — Dj Siddiqi, Forbes, 10 Oct. 2024
  • Part of the unknowns revolves around the many kinds of volcanoes that exist.
    — Timmy Broderick, Scientific American, 11 July 2023
  • Fame and career paths that revolve around the performing arts are your muse.
    — Valerie Mesa, Peoplemag, 1 June 2024
  • Like many kids his age, much of his life revolved around social media.
    — Molly O'Shea, STAT, 17 Apr. 2024
  • Her recent looks have revolved around neutral tones like black, white, beige and navy.
    — Alex Kessler, Vogue, 15 Aug. 2023
  • As with most restaurants of this caliber, the tasting menu revolves around seasons and whims.
    — Bill Addison, Los Angeles Times, 1 Aug. 2024
  • The suit revolves around Netflix, for the first time in a decade in 2022, disclosing subscriber losses.
    — Winston Cho, The Hollywood Reporter, 8 Jan. 2024
  • Our lives now revolve around avoiding the outdoors, where the pickleball noise is.
    — Rachel Cusk, Harper's Magazine, 21 Sep. 2023
  • Sort of like today, being in the civil rights movement, your life revolved around tragedies.
    — Clarence Williams, Washington Post, 25 Aug. 2023
  • The Death of Slim Shady appears to revolve around killing off his signature alter ego.
    — Michael Saponara, Billboard, 11 July 2024
  • There’s even one strip revolving around White Spy drawing Spy vs. Spy strips.
    — Gyasi Hall, Longreads, 12 Sep. 2023
  • Rachel Williams has a master plan for staying healthy and spry at 89 that revolves around a ping-pong-playing robot.
    — Jen Murphy, WSJ, 28 Oct. 2023
  • The sales pitch for the Galaxy S24 lineup revolves around an array of new features powered by AI.
    — Michael Liedtke, Fortune, 18 Jan. 2024
  • The dispute revolves around a deal that gave Mr. Musk options for up to 12 percent of Tesla’s outstanding shares at the time.
    — Peter Eavis, New York Times, 12 June 2024
  • The idea revolves around orders placed ahead of time for quicker pickup service.
    — Ella Gonzales, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 27 Feb. 2024
  • The film revolves around self-discovery amidst social pressures, but unlike Mean Girls, the movie has a fairy-tale twist.
    — Jane Lacroix, People.com, 2 Nov. 2024
  • In a nice twist on health, your livelihood revolves around your asthmatic lungs, which are cured with inhalers.
    — Matt Gardner, Forbes, 22 Oct. 2024
  • For decades, work has revolved around documents, spreadsheets, and slide decks.
    — David Pierce, The Verge, 9 Apr. 2024
  • The film revolves around Lily Bloom, a woman with a traumatic childhood who moves to Boston to start a new chapter in her life.
    — Saman Shafiq, USA TODAY, 9 Aug. 2024
  • The heart of the story revolves around Clarence, portrayed by the talented LaKeith Stanfield.
    — Shelby Stewart, Essence, 18 Dec. 2023
  • Many of the conversations revolved around guessing what a war with Israel would look like this time, and how to prepare.
    — Kim Ghattas, The Atlantic, 26 Jan. 2024
  • The case revolves around Google’s 30% commission on sales in its Android ecosystem.
    — David Meyer, Fortune, 6 Sep. 2023
  • But the bigger lessons between father and son revolved around the kind of person Jason would become.
    — Chris Alexis, Peoplemag, 25 Nov. 2023
  • School Jokes for Teens and Tweens Your teen's life partly revolves around school, and these jokes reflect their everyday experiences—teachers, homework, school subjects, and more.
    — Fiona Tapp, Parents, 5 Nov. 2024

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