How to Use build around in a Sentence

build around

phrasal verb
Definition of build aroundnext
  • And your goal is to build around a centerpiece with the right pieces.
    — Shakeia Taylor, Chicago Tribune, 26 July 2023
  • What is the starting rate for the suite, and what kind of packages can guests build around it?
    — Erik Maza, Town & Country, 24 Apr. 2023
  • The show is built around the Dutch painter’s Portrait of the Artist (1887), which is now on display in Wales for the first time.
    — Julia Binswanger, Smithsonian Magazine, 18 Mar. 2024
  • This was a true concert, built around the songs and the performance.
    — Eric Fuller, Forbes, 24 Feb. 2024
  • Once the shuttle full stack is in place, the rest of the museum will be built around it.
    — Rong-Gong Lin Ii, Los Angeles Times, 27 Jan. 2024
  • The view here is that Adebayo is a keeper, the player the Heat should most want to build around.
    — Barry Jackson, Miami Herald, 7 May 2024
  • The team once planned to build around homegrown players.
    — Lindsey Adler, WSJ, 22 Aug. 2023
  • The defense will be built around Cruz, Aiden Smith and Hurley.
    — San Diego Union-Tribune, 12 Aug. 2023
  • About a dozen houses were built around the tracks, and the U.S. Postal Service put an office here in 1901.
    — The Indianapolis Star, 13 July 2023
  • The game is built around gliding and, to some extent, flying.
    — Eric Ravenscraft, WIRED, 3 Sep. 2023
  • Let Alex Perry show you this home, which is built around a courtyard.
    — Allie Beth Allman & Associates, Dallas News, 29 Apr. 2023
  • But amid the carnage, the Sharks appear to have found another piece to build around.
    — Curtis Pashelka, The Mercury News, 2 Apr. 2024
  • But the car built around this willing chassis is starting to show its age.
    — Joey Capparella, Car and Driver, 4 Aug. 2023
  • In this case, the sitcom Shakespeare is built around two contrivances.
    — Owen Gleiberman, Variety, 21 Dec. 2023
  • So, with their additional Day 2 pick, the Panthers land Wright in the third round to build around Young.
    — Mike Kaye, Charlotte Observer, 15 Apr. 2024
  • The current design of Zipline’s Platform 2 Droid is built around a large thruster in the rear and two smaller thrusters at the front and back.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 15 Mar. 2024
  • His lack of defensive awareness on a team built around two-way play.
    — Helene Elliott, Los Angeles Times, 25 Nov. 2023
  • White secured the rights to the building by May 1957, and a buzz started to build around his hotel and club throughout the city and across the county.
    — Nathan Solis, Los Angeles Times, 22 Mar. 2024
  • While Threads is built around text updates, it will not be limited to words.
    — Alex Weprin, The Hollywood Reporter, 5 July 2023
  • That tried and true recipe, built around ball control, has always worked for Harbaugh.
    — Tony Garcia, Detroit Free Press, 7 Jan. 2024
  • Ragnarök, a game built around mythical realms, is about preventing the end of the world.
    — Megan Farokhmanesh, WIRED, 14 Mar. 2024
  • Still, his program is built around getting 2-year-olds ready to run in Triple Crown races the following year.
    — John Cherwa, Los Angeles Times, 2 Nov. 2023
  • One of the first phases of the project is to build a parking deck in the middle of the site for customers while apartments are being built around it, Birch said.
    — Chase Jordan, Charlotte Observer, 19 Feb. 2024
  • The ape kingdom is built around a silo, with a closed vault of a door, that contains many wonders within (like weapons).
    — Owen Gleiberman, Variety, 8 May 2024
  • Both are built around footage of New York shot in 1988 by Steven Siegel, whose imagery is featured on the new album’s cover art.
    — Spin Staff, SPIN, 16 Feb. 2024
  • Harris added that in high school, Faulk played in defenses built around him, but that’s not the case anymore in college.
    — Matt Cohen | McOhen@al.com, al, 10 Aug. 2023
  • It was built around these two scenes — one in the restaurant and one in the hospital — that were [drawn from] important moments in my life.
    — Jen Yamato, Los Angeles Times, 14 July 2023
  • The world in its current state probably needs more movies built around smart people talking to — and not past — each other.
    — Robert Abele, Los Angeles Times, 22 Dec. 2023
  • Sánchez can add this election night to yet another comeback in his career that has been built around beating the odds.
    — Time, 24 July 2023
  • Entire YouTube channels have been built around doing this to Pokémon and other games.
    — Andrew Cunningham, Ars Technica, 23 Jan. 2024

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