"about" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés

about adverbio

verbo + about
Kolokacji: 247
worry about • complain about • wander about • mill about • scattered about • spin about • move about • read about • learn about • ...
(6) spin, whirl, swirl, twirl
Kolokacji: 4
(14) excite, know, fantasize, bang
Kolokacji: 4
(16) brag, boast, blow, gloat
Kolokacji: 4
(17) feel, grope, rummage, scrabble
Kolokacji: 4
1. scurry about = tupot około scurry about
2. scuttle about = właz około scuttle about
3. scamper about = truchtać około scamper about
4. lark about = skowronek około lark about
5. cavort about = pląsaj cavort about
6. frisk about = obszukiwać około frisk about
7. skitter about = smyrgać około skitter about
8. romp about = igraszki około romp about
9. gambol about = brykać około gambol about
  • An elf covered in brindled fur leaped over Eragon and continued to gambol about, as often on all fours as on his feet.
  • Piano music by Alexander Tcherepnin accompanied "10 Suggestions," in which Mr. Morris gamboled about in pink pajamas.
  • Gamboling about in his electric wheelchair, he greets patrons, explains exhibits and conducts tours.
  • It was as intrinsic to the experience as cooing over them as they gamboled about.
  • The final brightening touch was a tiny puppy, gamboling about near the warmth of the hearth, teasing at a bone.
  • Back outside the cave, Mr. Torlak pointed with satisfaction at the dead rat floating in the river below as the children gamboled about and the little boys chased shrieking girls.
  • "Then why are you not dancing, and gamboling about, and impressing the young folk with your wit?"
  • They surrounded him only a short time, the smaller, more agile alligators gamboling about, while the larger reptiles nuzzled against their bigger brother.
  • Packer tells this story not from the halls of Congress but from within Huddleston's dining room, where the author's mother gambols about, enchanted with all these big ideas.
  • As he guides us through this fresh, sunlit environment, wolves and grizzly bears mount extraordinary chase sequences in their quest for elk, and mountain lions gambol about without worry.
(19) bandy, fight
Kolokacji: 2
(20) smile, grin
Kolokacji: 2
(21) poke, sniff, nose
Kolokacji: 3
(23) knock, rap, buffet
Kolokacji: 3
(26) whip, round
Kolokacji: 2
(27) inquire, bruit, snoop, enquire
Kolokacji: 4
(28) quibble, hedge
Kolokacji: 2

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