How To Use Rounded In A Sentence

They were now surrounded on all sides by a ring of excited, curious faces.
Demos they may be but these Hazlewood rarities are rounded, rustic country songs: lustrous and lustful, quirkily and dryly humorous, yet poignant stories from the other side of love.
He slapped away a few dryads, but they still surrounded him.
Squire Western, who, surrounded by piqueurs, and girt with the conventional cor de chasse of the Gallic sportsman, sings the following ariette, diversified with true Fielding
The rounded flakes, with less surface area to reflect light, lose brilliance.

Also, it is difficult to get across diagrammatically the iterative nature of grounded theory - in particular its commitment to the idea that data collection and analysis occur in parallel.
Mature and rounded or light and fruity? The Sun
Winfrey interviewed Cruise at his mountaintop home near Telluride, Colorado, surrounded by the snow-capped Rocky Mountains.
The black and white images suggested a lunar surface with bright elevated land masses, grooved by sloping drainage channels and seemingly surrounded by dark, still pools of oily liquid.
This is a habit I developed surrounded by thick-skulled idiots.
Surrounded by cottonwoods and aspens and featuring a wooden footbridge and an abundance of regional flora and foliage, it's a place to meditate, contemplate, and relax.
This is a small holopid with rounded whorls, deep sutures and a body whorl bearing coarse collabral threads.
The cover picture, the story and all the hoopla that surrounded it made me a celebrity. Times, Sunday Times
Surrounded by musicians and men who directed its movement, and followed by child maskers, the Ijele begin to spin, slowly at first, then gaining speed.
It's surrounded by mountains lush with greenery, bordered with wildflowers and dotted with water lilies.
The jetty was the way it had always been—flat and solid and surrounded on three sides by water. Stones from the River
A tall, impenetrable wall with barbed wire and sharp metal spikes on top surrounded the entire complex.
My neighbour lived on the terrace of his building, in a single room surrounded by cotes for his pigeons.
They're trapped, on boats, roofs, porches, surrounded by black and putrid water.
Thousands of people can live in a hutong which is made up of hundreds of quadrangular courtyards each surrounded by four homes.
We're in the suburbs surrounded mostly by fields and open land so we don't get the same amount of dust.
More important in MMA is skills, fast hips, a good sprawl, well rounded skill and natural genetics. SciFi, Fantasy & Horror Collectibles - Part 6402
No matter how outlandish and farcical some of the events become everything remains firmly grounded in a sense of reality.
Agents regularly rounded up suspected subversives.
The head of the humerus is articulated with its (glenoid?) cavity, by means of a small ligament, and it consists of a rounded epiphysis composed of spongy cartilage, the humerus itself is bent outward and forward, and it is articulated with its (glenoid?) cavity by its side, and not in a straight line. Instruments Of Reduction
There was something about the collective multiplicity of images, the sense of being surrounded by them, that made it all so potent.
We're surrounded by families with kids in every direction so I no longer feel shame for wearing my trackies and having unkept hair at three (ok six) in the pm.
She is surrounded by the native wild ageratum, Conoclinium coelestinum inherited with the property and planted with bronze carex self sown seedlings. First Frost Of Fall « Fairegarden
Then she lifted her body, piteously, the sweet, rounded centralities of her, to me. Guardsman Of Gor
With superb boatmanship he threaded the narrow, tortuous channel which no craft larger than a whaleboat could negotiate, until the shoals and patches showed seaward and they grounded on the quiet, rippling beach. A SON OF THE SUN
I sat at our old compounding table, surrounded by a welter of Skill-scrolls. THE GOLDEN FOOL: BOOK TWO OF THE TAWNY MAN
Sometime after AD 73 this was superseded by a palace, built using many exotic imported materials and surrounded by gardens and landscaped parkland.
The next morning, I head out early and stop first at Plaza Mayor, a huge square surrounded by some of the oldest buildings in the city.
Great – maybe Obama will travel to Colorado and "unveil" his policy surrounded by Greek columns. Obama to unveil new Afghanistan strategy after Thanksgiving, source says
The rain was steady, and as they rounded a corner alongside the estuary, they saw the fires were beginning to abate. SHADOW OF A DARK QUEEN: BOOK ONE OF THE SERPENTWAR SAGA
The three riders rounded the bend, as Garon's front entrance came into view the trio slowed down the pace of their horses and rode alongside each other.
Everyone should own the original movie, but we've rounded up a few clips that only the most devoted fans will have seen before. Times, Sunday Times
The temperature limiting device is of the manual reset, trip-free type and has been factory installed to interrupt all ungrounded power supply conductors in the event of thermostat failure.
It would be easy to snooze the day away in the spa, but Galway is surrounded by rich history and beautiful scenery that has to be explored. The Sun
My plan was to remove single cells from defined regions of the blastoderm and culture them in adult abdomens surrounded by genetically marked "feeder cells. Eric F. Wieschaus - Autobiography
Xylem and xylem parenchyma can be recognized in the centre of the taproot surrounded by a ring of meristematic tissue with very high intensity.
The glass pavilion, designed by Dirk van Pastel, is in the western corner of a triangular site, surrounded by the woods and fields of Burgundy.
Not only are they pushing the boundaries of irreverence, which is hilarious, but it is grounded in this humanity, this pain, this pathos, that goes beyond what we think of as comedy. USATODAY.com News
King Arthur was surrounded by fey women, all intimately concerned with his fate.
I moved down the corridor, as instructed, and rounded the elevators to the bank on the far side.
The vessel is surrounded by half a dozen American warships but no moves have been made to board it. Times, Sunday Times
He smiled over at Marietta, then his face paled and he froze, seeing Marietta's rounded stomach and radiant face.
A pair of coots, some moorhens, a little grebe and a single Little Egret rounded out the waterbirds.
Each man was surrounded by an absolute armada of percussion: Bongos, congas, sambas and tom toms; high-hats, kettles, timpani and snares.
The oral shield is oval to rounded pentagonal with the distal edge fringed by granules or low spinelets.
The final days of the mayoral campaign find mayoress Kathy Baildon in a familiar pose: in the campaign office, surrounded by charts and calendars, phone glued to her ear.
There may be a shuffle of preselected leaders, a review of the news footage, and, of course, the rebels may be rounded up to face a fate unknown. Zondra Hughes: Egypt Revolt: This Is Biblical
he was surrounded by a bevy of beauties in bathing attire
The army surrounded the town in a pincer movement.
The bath was enormous, shiny white and surrounded by a wide shelf of polished mahogany.
Martha somehow rounded up a moog synthesizer and two guitar.
He surrounded himself with witty courtiers and kept many beautiful mistresses.
In a gaunt and craggy landscape the soft, well-rounded Magdalen weeps over her past.
We had sediments, river mud, pebbles rounded by water action, even the remains of aquatic plants on the site.
These include clavate ribbons with a rounded upper end and a somewhat pointed lower end, but devoid of any rhizoidal holdfast structures; such ribbons may be poorly preserved Baculiphyca taeniata.
Clad in a nightdress, boots (no socks) and a mackintosh, I am swept along by the crowd running before the speeding police jeeps until we are surrounded on all sides by heavily armed police.
Would you be negative about the area if you were surrounded by countryside like this?
She grounded me, and told me I had to come over and apologise.
Move on to complex appetizers like pheasant ballottine, a cylinder of braised meat surrounded by a savoury sauce and tiny little apples.
She rounded the bend into the quiet road where the hotel was.
The sun shone brightly through the spreading leaves of the oak trees that surrounded the court.
This is a place to escape to, where you can sleep surrounded by whitewashed stone walls and lush gardens. Times, Sunday Times
A one-time fishing village, it has a beat-up, raffish looking downtown surrounded by new, big marinas.
At this crucial period of their lives they were surrounded by people who, in very many cases, undertook a complete about-turn with regard to their social and political views.
But here he is, threatening to go on and on, surrounded by fawning Labour ministers, backbenchers and constituency delegates.
They keep me grounded, and if I ever get a bit big headed, I'm not too big for a clip round the ear!
But what is interesting for visitors is that the garden is still evolving: a gravel garden with silver plants is surrounded by a cloister of youthful hornbeams.
Starting with DNA surrounded by lipid vesicles and DNA binding proteins, a double membrane may spontaneously self-assemble around the DNA, a process which happens at every division in telophase. Albert de Roos: A design hypothesis for the evolution of the nucleus
Luck smiles in a building surrounded by tall trees. The Sun
The little boy stared at the pregnant woman's rounded belly.
The case itself is rather light, as would be expected with an aluminum case, and the brushed metal and rounded curves look great.
Most of the paintings are about 3¼ by 4 inches in size, captioned by four lines of Latin text with oversize, illuminated capitals and surrounded by wide borders of tiny bryony leaves on coiling vines. A Most Illuminating Show of Medieval Manuscript Pages
I'm now living on an island surrounded by a moat.
The plan of the sanctuary complex, now a dignified patchwork of ruins, is quintessentially Syrian, with a small central temple surrounded by an expansive precinct known as the temenos . Temple of the 'Bride of the Desert'
At a meeting on July 11 the Government analysed in detail the Russian position and reached the decision that it was ungrounded and with no legal or factual basis.
Loxochlamys having 13-15 prominent radial rounded-trigonal plicae that begin early in ontogeny and remain of moderate height throughout ontogeny.
The physically awkward but intellectually gifted nebbish was foregrounded in film and television by Woody Allen, Dustin Hoffman, and Richard Dreyfuss, and later by Jerry Seinfeld, Adam Sandler, Ben Stiller, and Larry David. A Renegade History of the United States
The cowboy's life was far more prosaic than it appears in modern legend, consisting mainly of endless hours on the trail surrounded by thousands of bellowing beasts. The American Nation: A History of the United States to 1877
She was surrounded by tug boats. Times, Sunday Times
The other woman sighed; Vicky's view of her was obstructed by a circle of three guards that surrounded her.
Shiona told herself with just a flicker of uncertainty, changing into second gear as she rounded a bend.
The beacon was surrounded by an anomalously flat area about 100 meters in diameter; anyone going for the beacon would be completely exposed for the last few seconds, an easy target for a concealed marksman.
In working with organometallic compounds, for example, he placed the metal atom at the center of a geometric figure (such as a cube) and surrounded it with other atoms, ions, and groups of atom at the corners of the figure.
Police said youth armed with machetes, knives, clubs and stones surrounded the building.
The tract thus characterised was about five or six acres in superficial extent; and surrounded by the same kind of coppice that covered most of the face of the country. Bruin The Grand Bear Hunt
Set in tranquil sea and surrounded by a powdery sand beach, it is a breathtaking scene. The Sun
At times she fell asleep in her seat and dreamed of being surrounded by packs of wild wolves.
Speaking generally, the design is formed by nine octagon figures, three by three, surrounded and divided by a guilloche cable band; the interspaces of the octagons are filled by four smaller square patterns, and the outer octagon spaces by 12 triangles. Scientific American Supplement, No. 514, November 7, 1885
A perfectly braised shank on buttery mash surrounded by vegetables set the tastebuds going before the plate was even put down on the table.
When pilots and crew are grounded they do not earn the bonuses usually awarded for working long-haul routes. Times, Sunday Times
• Le Trianon, avenue des Bains, Parc des Thermes, Allevard, +33 4 7671 9617, letrianon-allevard.frAlsace surprises the visitor, not just with the strange Germanic dialect and its colourful half-timbered gingerbread houses clustered in tiny villages surrounded by rolling vine-clad hills, but also with some of the country's finest cuisine. Budget bourguignon: cheap eats in France
I have a feeling this subject is going to be even touchier than the speculation that surrounded the cast of the now defunct JLA movie, so let the battle begin in the comment section, or over in the Major Spoilers Movie Forum. via Hollywood Reporter Akira Getting Live Action Treatment | Major Spoilers - Comic Book Reviews and News
They were surrounded by hyenas, crocodiles and hippos and while in the swamps they went barefoot so they would feel a potentially deadly crocodile beneath their feet. The Sun
The Huaorani surrounded the hut and attacked with shotguns and machetes.
This was her first effort of the afternoon, a risotto of chicken and smoked bacon with green beans and Parmesan, surrounded by an infusion of fresh herbs in olive oil.
The main body was streamline, ending in a rounded point, with something that looked like a long, thick black loop that had been bent around the back and almost reached the point attached at various points.
I grounded my opinion on facts.
It's 159 yards from tee to green, but the real problem is that not only is the green surrounded by gorse and heather, but that the whole dip from tee to green is also deep, deep rough.
But as we rounded a bend, we saw that two cars had been stopped ahead of us by men in combat fatigues at a roadblock. Times, Sunday Times
His large wooden desk is covered and surrounded by a collection of antique Montblanc pens, West African Bobo masks he collects them because they share his name and odd-looking sculptures of goats and rams in clothing by artist Sergio Bustamante. A Gathering Place as Warm as the Conversation
For a moment I thought she was going to expostulate, still surrounded by books and papers. WHISTLER IN THE DARK
It is surrounded by the same mystique that befogs other aspects of the Constitution. Founders Chic
It presents a large, smooth, concave surface, called the iliac fossa, which gives origin to the Iliacus and is perforated at its inner part by a nutrient canal; and below this a smooth, rounded border, the arcuate line, which runs downward, forward, and medialward. II. Osteology. 6c. The Bones of the Lower Extremity. 1. The Hip Bone
Schools and colleges were monitored by the military, mild dissidents were branded traitors, whole groups of friends were rounded up and removed. Times, Sunday Times
This can be rounded up to 2.5 years per sign or 30 years for one revolution around the zodiac.
One hill I passed over I found to be composed of puddingstone, that is to say, a conglomeration of many kinds of stone mostly rounded and mixed up in a mass, and formed by the smothered bubblings of some ancient and ocean-quenched volcano. Australia Twice Traversed, Illustrated,
Government broadcasting policy has always been surrounded by high-sounding rhetoric, but the need to ensure financial viability while filling the programming needs of a voracious medium has always been the basic driver of TV practice.
The gymnasium included a large palaestra surrounded by columns, and the baths in the east wing were fully equipped during the reign of Trajan when the emperor had the roof repaired.
He offers a fully rounded characterization of a sensitive, self-aware being who just happens to be a lower primate.
I was surrounded by backslapping, laughing patrons.
Let me tell you something - if I catch you kids smoking again, you'll be grounded for a month at least.
There are much smaller class sizes and the end product is a much more rounded individual. Times, Sunday Times
In a caravan of unmarked coaches they went to La Fillon’s hôtel particulier, which was done up in the modern taste—rococo, mirrors, pastel colors, much white and gold, with rounded commodes by Charles Cressent, encrusted with gilt bronze. THE DIAMOND
At my elbow lies my running - or treasure-bag, surrounded by my cabas filled with hair-pins, starch, and a band I was embroidering, etc.; near it lie our combs, etc., and the whole is crowned by my dagger; - by the way, I must add Miriam's pistol which she has forgotten, A Confederate girl's diary,
The combined weight of the women was just too much and they grounded. The Sun
He still spends his days tending bar, surrounded by smokers.
It stood out like the Taj Mahal in a trailer camp as it was surrounded by what can only be described as windowless hovels and wooden shacks.
As he rounded the house to the porte-cochère, he came upon the carriage. The Southland
She claimed that an atmosphere of sleaze and corruption now surrounded the Government.
Four years at college used to develop well-rounded individuals, mature athletes with knowledge of a world beyond their own disciplines.
At the centre of Kant's disc was the Sun, and the planets were assembled from material that surrounded it.
On France: I was a Francophobe before Francophobia was cool, but I actually had a splendid few days in France, surrounded by helpful strangers who were entirely accommodating to my recollection of 2 years of French, taken 15 years previous. Matthew Yglesias » The European Bogeyman
The boatman beaches us on a spit of land leading up to a stone house surrounded by willows.
More firmly grounded in Hawaiian culture is the lei, a colorful wreath of fresh flowers or other decorative objects worn around the neck.
He lived in the great house in Doocastle surrounded by servants, lackeys, and half-sirs who did his bidding without question.
Initially it seems that the ship is grounded as solidly as a breakwater, but after a while the creaks and groans are evidence of movement, however slight this may be.
Finally, let's not forget that Bermuda is only one mile wide and surrounded by water.
He rounded the upcoming corner as only he could; a jump and flip, then a spring off the wall of an adjacent building.
The ocelli (eye-like spots) on the spinous dorsal fin of males are metallic blue, surrounded by a golden ring.
Celestial Four sashayed forward, her silver and blue gown rippling like water over her rounded curves. Etched in Bone
These stones include a 52.40 carat clean light fancy yellow diamond from Holpan; a 60.52 carat light yellow octahedral diamond from Saxendrift; a 74.99 carat clean white irregular blocky stone from Saxendrift; a 54.23 carat light yellow broken macle stone with inclusions from Saxendrift; and a 60.51 light yellow rounded flat stone with oxide coating and minor inclusions from Saxendrift. News24 Top Stories
We slid into one of the booths that surrounded a long, central, white table with eight empty seats either side of it. Times, Sunday Times
The child was finally found huddled inside a flat with her mother, surrounded by bin bags full of rotting food.
It turned its hideous head that looked like a rounded cone, with the snout being the pointy end and the round side being in back.
These products are surrounded by considerable mystique and are often outrageously expensive.
A tall woman in a black dress appeared from a rear room surrounded by an impressive entourage.
My photo below shows the rebuilt anchorage on the east wall in the peaceful churchyard surrounded by the bustle of the city centre.
The Congress likes to cloister its leader in a tower surrounded by loyal party leaders, accessible only to the select few.
Her hands then began to glow, surrounded by an aura of white light.
True patience is grounded in wisdom & compassion. Allan Lokos
The farm was set in a valley surrounded by meadows of wild flowers. Times, Sunday Times
British Airways said it anticipated ‘quite a number of disrupted and cancelled flights’ and other carriers said aircraft would be grounded.
It radiates a Goth passion, a combination of lust and cruelness: the metal rounded quarter of an egg shaped, lead-hued metal in contrast to the blood-red transparent glass within which beats the cold-heart of a contemporary vixen. Archive 2009-02-01
We rounded the bend at high speed.
These simple wooden huts provide guests with an idyllic getaway on a peaceful lake surrounded by woods. Times, Sunday Times
In the first place, I must remark that these human remains, which are in my possession, are characterized like thousands of bones which I have lately been disinterring, by the extent of the decomposition which they have undergone, which is precisely the same as that of the extinct species: all, with a few exceptions, are broken; some few are rounded, as is frequently found to be the case in fossil remains of other species. On Some Fossil Remains of Man
Parallel ranges and valleys on folded, faulted and metamorphosed strata; rounded crests of subequal height. Central California Coast (Bailey)
It is surrounded by parkland, including a bewitching rose garden. Times, Sunday Times
On my fourth dive of the week, I rounded an outcrop at about 22m to be greeted by a view of a series of rocky pinnacles covered in gorgonians bathed in the rubescent sunlight of a late-autumn afternoon.
The stand is surrounded on both sides by steep slopes of sandstone talus.
It's a quiet residential backwater surrounded by old Victorian terraces.
Given the hype that surrounded the 200m freestyle, that was a tough undertaking.
This strategy is grounded in a clear and achievable goal shared by the Iraqi people and the American people: an Iraq that is sovereign, stable, and self-reliant.
Instead Schodt recreates the social and cultural milieus that surrounded MacDonald at various stages of his life.
As quick as thought the tent was struck, the pegs wrenched from the ground, and the ghazi surrounded, overpowered, secured, and incidentally in due course hanged. The Story of the Guides
Although she had been told that the mygale sometimes ate small birds, her short experience in the Amazon had taught her that not many creatures - insects and piranha excepted - attacked unless hungry, provoked, trodden upon or surrounded by others of their species. River Of Desire
The comments on this were all to do with its rounded, balanced character. Thorsons Organic Wine Guide
Their discussion gradually rounded into a plan for ensuring safety in production.
As the majority of commercially available bronchoscopes are not electrically grounded, the bronchoscopist risks becoming the grounding electrode should the unipolar probe tip touch the scope while the current is on.
Internally, the central span peaked on rounded trusses.
The castle is surrounded by a metal fence, and all of the entrances to it are welded shut by some of his servants to prevent anyone from coming or going.
A tower rises from the ground, surrounded by mirrors. Times, Sunday Times
To this fusion are added Gothic style elements in the legs (a rounded arch above and a trefoil below each), colorful French ceramics with a Moorish flavor, and exotic serpents on either side of the ceramic cylinder.
Dublin, in case we have forgotten, is built on the inlet of a large river and is surrounded by numerous bays and inlets and has a vast well-sheltered harbour.
Inherited oil-bearing fluid inclusions identified in those samples are hosted in a well-cemented and partially recrystallized, rounded pebble of sandstone.
The building is made of precast concrete elements with aluminium cladding on the roof and rounded facades. Cabel Headquarters by Massimo Mariani
The place which is surrounded by rock faces is the ideal destination for cragsmen.
But I now see I've felt unhappy whenever I've been surrounded by silence – as I was as an undergraduate in London – and been content when sound is at hand: such as in my uncle's two-storey house in Kolkata, and in the second-storey flat in Bandra in suburban Mumbai to which my parents moved after my father retired. Amit Chaudhuri's musical circumnavigation
Her gaze was transfixed by his square shoulders, his rounded pectorals and his flat stomach.
The Earth is not important in the cosmos, it is a tiny speck surrounded by this vast emptiness. Times, Sunday Times
Karwoski, a high-flier on the Scottish business scene, was in a plane headed to New York which was swiftly grounded at Memphis airport as US air space shut down completely.
This morning it was calm and clear save for a light misty veil of ice crystals through which the moon shone with scarce clouded brilliancy, surrounded with bright cruciform halo and white paraselene. Scott's Last Expedition Volume I
An ungrounded clause corresponds to the traditional category of non-finite clause.
The Island of St. Germain, the objective of the action, is a low mound of earth surrounded by swamps and was athwart the division zone of advance.
She finally rounded a corner and noticed that the path this time seemed to slope downwards.
For each Order Point rule, you can specify a number which will force the ordered quantity to a multiple given by this factor (rounded to above quantity).
Book of Hours begins with an image of the twin towers, protrusive amongst the mid-rise buildings that surrounded them at ground zero. Rachel Anne Farquharson: George Walker's Book of Hours: The Significance of a Decade Passed
The popular lady, who worked as a sacristan in Portlaw for many years, was surrounded by family and friends for a party at her home.
The little boy stared at the pregnant woman's rounded belly.
An antique four-poster bed dominated the room, surrounded by abstract watercolor paintings in vivid jewel tones. Rogue Oracle
A common design for stair treads provides a groove in the under surface, placed somewhat back from the rounded forward edge.
Sometimes we find ourselves surrounded by confusing options, too deeply immersed in our problems to know "which way is up. Christianity Today
Fields surrounded the entire village, surrounded in turn by forest, thinned by woodcutting and clearance for pastures.
The expressway rounded about the urban district.
A handful of other artists staged theatrical public spectacles, performances grounded in the sociologies of place and personality.
He was surrounded by tall skyscrapers, their towering heights lost in the inky blackness of a night sky.
On one occasion he was discovered by the night watchman surrounded by neat piles of bits and pieces of a film projector.
The film's biggest dose of reality (and arguably its biggest draw) comes from the live, honest-to-goodness sharks that surrounded Travis and Ryan for two days during shooting.
The circular, hypaethral shrine stands surrounded by paddy fields with a big tank for ritual bathing near it.
The cable has a copper wire surrounded by a plastic sheath.
Being surrounded by seniors affords me a birds-eye view of what it looks like to live fully while you still can. Karen Talavera: Before You Die
In the cosy consulting room the children are surrounded by familiar objects.
Fair enough; ungrounded rhetoric does little good.
Figure 7 shows an eyelet that is rounded only at its tip to accommodate the suture.
Hydrostats are characterized by a central volume of pressurized incompressible fluid surrounded by a membrane in tension; all amniote intromittent organs include a central space surrounded by a tensile membrane.

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