Sentence examples for ate around from inspiring English sources

At the start of hostilities, hearty army rations high in protein meant that soldiers ate around 4,600 calories a day, compared with the working man's average intake of 3,400 – although rations dwindled as the war progressed and the size of the army increased, to the point that, by the end, soldiers would be lucky if they saw meat more than once a week.

Joey Ramone bought these skinny jeans there ($47; belt $50), patronized Sounds and ate around the block at Hasaki until the final curtain.

To be safe, she ate around the edges.

So she ate around the salmon, and couldn't eat the pork and crab dumplings either.

The prosecution says: The contents of Reeva's stomach suggest she ate around 1am, which was when a neighbour Estelle Van der Merwe says she heard arguments.

With uncommon restraint at 19 years old, defying the junk-food addictions of his age group, he ate around temptation, devouring the protein and nothing more.

This assumption should make sense at least for nocturnal species that start eating around lights off.

"It's not like there isn't anywhere else to eat around here..."....

Why then, is it so damn hard to find a decent bite to eat around here?

He is a teenage boy of 1.9 metres (6ft 3in), eating around 700 calories a day.

The planter called the importer and invited him to dinner the next day, saying: "I eat around twelve.