Sentence examples for town round from inspiring English sources

Posing for photographers against the building's oak door, Blumenthal grinned and said: "It's been like a ghost town round here.

Round the echoing vastness of parental grief; round empty seats where brothers and sister should have sat for tea and bickering; round a generation of children simply gone from a tiny town; round an abyss where ordinary human joys and sorrows should have been.

Driven by a thirst for vengeance against two local men whom the gangs believed had betrayed them, mobs of Zetas drove into town, rounded up their extended families and friends totalling hundreds of people and abducted them at gunpoint.

A dollop of baba ghanouj, sweeter and lighter than most around town, rounds out the dips; the characteristic smoky char that the eggplant picks up from the grill is edged to the side by a bright, acidic addition of tahini.

Last Wednesday, in one of its boldest cross-border moves yet, a squad of uniformed, heavily armed Shabab fighters stormed into a Kenyan school in a remote town, rounding up all the children and telling them to quit their classes and join the jihad.

Sixty years ago, just days after Allied troops stormed the beaches of Normandy, a German convoy rolled into this sleepy town, rounded up its residents and gunned them to the ground before setting the buildings and the piles of still writhing bodies on fire.

Its influence is palpable in the shanty towns round Diyarbakir, where unemployed youths say that "Islam should rule the world".Past experience suggests that repressive laws and a military crackdown cannot stamp out terrorism.

The reason why there is so much desperate poverty in towns round the country as disparate as Bognor Regis or Bradford – and why generation after generation depends on benefit – is that there is so little local opportunity.

Forty years on, Hodkinson roams the streets of northern towns rounding up punks to tell their stories.

Today Israeli forces continued to operate in seven of the eight major Palestinian cities and towns, rounding up suspects in what the army called a continuing hunt for militants.

The town of Round Top has also become an arts centre.