Sentence examples for at first around from inspiring English sources

The phrase "at first around" is not correct and does not convey a clear meaning in written English.
It is unclear what context you intend to use it in, as it seems to be a combination of two separate ideas.
Example: "At first around the corner, I thought I saw someone I knew."
Alternatives: "initially nearby" or "at the beginning close by."

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At first, around the time of "Hex Enduction Hour" (1982), I found it bitter, bossy music, and a pile of noise, even by my low standards.

Soccer was a bit skittish at first around his human co-stars, when they returned to the set from wardrobe, hair and make-up.

Then when the attack failed, and Fidel was jailed on the Isle of Pines, she wrote to him.Their correspondence revolved at first around books.

Built at first around the nucleus of the guitarist Robben Ford, the group has spent most of the last 25 years perfecting a guitarless fusion that's much more sinewy than steroidal, with infusions of gospel, funk and rhythm and blues.

A stark excerpt of "My Funny Valentine," with Wallace Roney on trumpet, morphed into Mr. Hancock's "Eye of the Hurricane," which yielded a tough, shivery solo by Mr. Shorter, built at first around a single fillip in the melody, and then a single note.

This technique is what caught on at first, around the turn of the century, in the newly established ski clubs around Europe, among the aristocrats and haut-bourgeois who had travelled to or read about Scandinavia, or had had Scandinavians as guests.

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And "Fashion Hunters," at 10 30, checks in at Second Time Around, a Manhattan consignment shop that handles items like a $6,000 dress worn once by Jennifer Lopez.

Shorts by Stiaan Louw, Chain Mail Cardigan available at Second Time Around.

At first, he stood around, gesticulating in his quiet way for the team to remain calm, and to believe.

Then, the man fled, at first zigzagging around the plaza and then running south on Seventh Avenue.

Without speed, he believes, you are doomed.Over the past year he has been developing a more ambitious strategy, at first constructed around Chrysler, but now including Opel.

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