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Discover LudwigThe phrase "surged round" is correct and usable in written English
It can be used to describe a sudden or powerful movement or flow around something or someone.
Example: "As the storm approached, the waves surged round the rocky coastline, crashing violently against the cliffs."
Alternatives: "rushed around" or "flowed around"
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Simon Paisley Day's Antony and Janie Dee's Cleopatra loved and fought while Schmitt's music at its most extravagant surged round them, and an impressionist haze accompanied Brendan O'Hea's Enobarbus as he described Cleopatra's journey down the river Cydnus.
A crowd surged round him as he collapsed once more, and policemen were called onto the scene to keep it back, while the truly unfortunate man was put upon his feet and pushed once more towards the goal.
Landor's sharply observed narrative alternates with flowery dispatches from Poe, who tends to get carried away with his own grandiloquence: "The ebon air surged round, benighting the very Night, and it seemed to me that I could hear — yes! once more!
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Their weapon of choice on this occasion is the racing car — or, rather, a computer-generated parody of a car, as curvy and unstoppable as a child's dream of velocity, surging round a virtual track and clashing with its rivals.
As the cheers surged around him during the final round, Garcia gave the energy back — smiling, pumping his fist, displaying the joyful nature of El Niño.
Music — Vina's voice, singing Ormus's melodies — surges round the world, crossing all frontiers, belonging everywhere and nowhere, and its rhythm is the rhythm of life.
Watching the crowds surge round Mr Edwards, one local party leader said it was the nearest thing he had seen in politics to Elvis.Mr Edwards is a southerner, but unlikely to move any southern states out of Mr Bush's camp in the presidential contest.
It is a whipping, meters-tall rapid that surges year round.
He said that with people either unable to secure financing to buy homes or just fearful of entering the market, interest has surged in year-round rentals.
Roger Federer of Switzerland solved a puzzle of how to blunt the forceful strokes of Marin Cilic of Switzerland and surged into the fourth round of the U.S. Open on Saturday with a 6-3, 4-6, 6-4, 6-4 victory.
Stock markets surged during the last round of corporate profit reports, after struggling companies showed that they could climb out of the red by cutting their budgets, reducing investments and laying off workers.
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