Sentence examples for instead of being around from inspiring English sources

"Instead of being around seven most of the time, I'm around eight or nine most of the time now," she says.

Try making friends that make you feel good about yourself, instead of being around people that making you feel lonelier than you truly are.

It was all about the winning, winning, winning, instead of enjoying being around these guys and watching them play, enjoying the experience and the challenge of competing.

"This year we gave them a lot of sustenance, but now they are going to have to learn to walk on their own instead of being carried around in our lap".

"It's a result for Britain … The bill, instead of being £1.7bn, will be around £850m".

They thought that blackout meant unconscious and asleep on the couch instead of being up and around and moving and functioning".

Well, at least you drive your own car, instead of being chauffeured around town.

Instead of being fastest around the tracks everybody knows, creative people move adaptively through wildernesses nobody knows.

Instead of being built around a controlling hub surrounded by terrorist cells, a network can be a sprawling, decentralized arrangement.

Instead of being united around George W. Bush's vision of democratic revolution, conservatives are increasingly divided over what lessons to draw from America's post-9/11 interventions.

"Reminiscence can give you a sense of being rooted, a sense of meaning and purpose – instead of being blown around by the whims of everyday life," says Bryant.