Sentence examples for berth around from inspiring English sources

"When Wal-Mart came here 12 years ago, customers would walk this wide berth around the greeters," he said.

American forces invading the country have cut a wide berth around the city in their race north to Baghdad.

But he steers a wide berth around two important groups: grateful organ recipients and those who tend the persistently vegetative for years on end.

The wooden ship was constructed on a building berth, around which timbers and planking were cut and shaped and then fitted together on the berth to form the hull.

Even on a crowded night, people will form a wide berth around you, attempting to ice you out of the conversation and hopefully shunt you out the door.

Given that I'd never played this instrument before there were a few audible teething problems, but I held strong, cranking my way through some of my own tuneless compositions while pedestrians kept a wide berth around me. Luckily, it didn't take me too long to find three major notes, and to be honest that's pretty much all you need.

A 2nd-class sleeping berth costs around $88, as opposed to over $250 for a seat on the new Beijing-Guangzhou high-speed line.The first-class berths on our train are in enclosed compartments, each with four bunks plus the added luxury of a door.

Berthing takes around two hours per ship and unberthing is 45 minutes.

The marinas warned that the law could drive away as many as 30,000 boats, at a time when they were building, or planning, 50,000 new berths around the country.

Horne writes: "The proportion of people who gave him a wide berth was around three quarters, and it was hard to escape the conclusion that this was because he was black….

Purvis endured a difficult British Championships and was fortunate that Thomas suffered a pre-European trials knee injury, enabling him to edge out Keatings and Oldham for the second all-around berth.