Sentence examples for round us up from inspiring English sources

I'm not a sheep, I'm not a lamb – and I don't mean that celebrities are lambs or sheep but the way the world is, we can be rounded up, they round us up and the money is flattering.

It's not the totalitarian fear that an agency that knows exactly where we are and who we're talking to at all times would find it easier to round us up; we're not a totalitarian state, and in any case, in modern America, if the police want to arrest you, they'll be able to find you.

The guards round us up well ahead of when they should.

I'm more scared that I won't be able to finish my degree because they're going to round us up and put us all in camps," he told me.

Another member of the crew then rounded us up for a mandatory lifeboat drill.

When Thaingar rounded us up an hour later and took us back to the boat, I felt torn about the visit.

After several hours of negotiations, Gilbert agreed to transport Chris and me for $1,200 each, and David and Stephen, who were each given credit for rounding us up, for $300 each.

The next day my father was forced to hand over his remaining money to a delegation that included the mayor and the school principal as they rounded us up at the town hall.

Lydia Togu, who escaped with her sister after jumping down from a truck, echoed those thoughts: "When the Boko Haram were rounding us up, I saw one man from the village I recognised.

She said: 'Some people have come to take us and they have rounded us up.

"When Boko Haram attacked [the town of] Madagali they rounded us up and then shot my father," says Rejoice, 19, a student.