"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 • ...
collocations grouped by meanings
Grup znaczeniowych: 28
(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
(19) bandy, fight
Kolokacji: 2
(20) smile, grin
Kolokacji: 2
(21) poke, sniff, nose
Kolokacji: 3
(23) knock, rap, buffet
Kolokacji: 3
1. knock about = obijać się, włóczyć się, szlajać się knock about
2. rap about = stuknięcie około rap about
3. buffeted about = walić około buffeted about
  • She heard cries of pain as others, less fortunate than she, hit the unforgiving metal of the Voyager as the ship was buffeted about.
  • As a child, Lisa was buffeted about by her parents' divorces and chaotic life and spent much of her childhood trying to hold her family together.
  • Artistic patronage was thrust into the public marketplace, to be buffeted about by conflicting claims.
  • Before she could break into tears, the escape pod hit turbulence in the upper atmosphere, and they were buffeted about.
  • Midway through her stay in Tokyo Bay, Walter X. Young was buffeted about by a typhoon.
  • So this is your lot in life - to be buffeted about and forced to suffer bravely, and, I might add, loudly?
  • It seemed these solid surfaces repelled him as though his will confronted them first in an invisible field and he was buffeted about.
  • And everybody really is having a great time, something Arthur's knights rarely did in the film as they were buffeted about by the plot's dyspeptic skepticism.
  • At the last minute it was buffeted about by a sudden, damp squall that had been sent to try the pilot's nerve.
  • The tiny craft was buffeted and slammed about.
(26) whip, round
Kolokacji: 2
(27) inquire, bruit, snoop, enquire
Kolokacji: 4
(28) quibble, hedge
Kolokacji: 2

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