How to Use show (someone) around in a Sentence

show (someone) around

phrasal verb

• The Weeknd will perform the halftime show around 8 p.m. ET.
  — Rebecca Alter, Vulture, 3 Feb. 2021
• Always look up at night—the stars are the greatest free show around.
  — Cnt Editors, Condé Nast Traveler, 28 June 2023
• Looking forward to tour and take my one-man show around the world.
  — Karen Mizoguchi, PEOPLE.com, 24 Sep. 2020
• Shaping the show around him is requires a bit more effort.
  — Kelly Lawler, USA TODAY, 12 Feb. 2024
• That bad idea was to build a show around the 15th-century invention of the printing press.
  — Marley Marius, Vogue, 7 Sep. 2023
• The hippest late-night talk show around returns for Season 4, and reverts to its once-show-per-week schedule.
  — oregonlive, 8 Mar. 2022
• Sara is usually providing both the pace and the wall; her charisma onstage bends the show around her.
  — Helen Shaw, Vulture, 28 Mar. 2022
• The first is an obvious progression: taking his show around the world.
  — Los Angeles Times, 4 May 2022
• Mike Tirico will host the studio show around the live racing coverage.
  — Michael McCleary, The Indianapolis Star, 26 May 2019
• As the eight-episode season progresses, and the stripteases become sleeker, the show around them only gets messier.
  — Inkoo Kang, The New Yorker, 12 Dec. 2022
• While the women in the leopard bustiers are memorable, there aren’t any actual cast members from the show around.
  — Jenn Harris, Los Angeles Times, 12 June 2023
• The company has built an entire traveling show around its bags and trunks.
  — Robin Givhan, Washington Post, 15 Feb. 2023
• Seville has built her show around glamor, cabaret-style performances and campy humor.
  — Laura Latzko, The Arizona Republic, 23 July 2021
• With the exception of one episode in which Rostov gets very sad about his predicament, he isn’t tormented, and the show around him matches his tone.
  — Daniel Fienberg, The Hollywood Reporter, 27 Mar. 2024
• The show’s global performance has been even stronger, with Only Murders ranking as the 15th most in-demand show around the world at one point last week.
  — Josef Adalian, Vulture, 7 Oct. 2021
• Larry Hass bills himself as the philosopher magician and themes his show around ideas and beliefs.
  — Kayla Samoy, Chicago Tribune, 22 June 2023
• Even as the show around her stutters, Garner leans into her role with a vulpine, barely there grin that proves irresistible.
  — Caroline Framke, Variety, 9 Feb. 2022
• Photos in court documents show around 15 men at the Cuna del Sol raising glasses of wine.
  — Arturo Torres, Washington Post, 13 Jan. 2024
• Assembled in the show around Dave are friends who have been absorbed by his ambition to become a global star.
  — Oliver Munday, The Atlantic, 17 July 2023
• Now, at the same venue, comes Larry Hass, who bills himself as the philosopher magician, theming his show around ideas and beliefs.
  — Chris Jones, Chicago Tribune, 19 June 2023
• For a family that thrives on the weird and surreal, a musical variety show around the Addams might have been too bizarre even for them.
  — Lee Escobedo, EW.com, 7 Dec. 2022
• So Brown agreed to collaborate with Norman and director Bartlett Sher to build a show around that central conflict — and to take some liberties with the rest of the text.
  — Thomas Floyd, Washington Post, 16 Aug. 2023
• And the show around him treats unhappiness as the subject rather than a condition of an environment with much more to explore.
  — Daniel D'addario, Variety, 10 Nov. 2021
• The recent data show around one million joint divorce applications in this year’s first half.
  — Liyan Qi, WSJ, 23 Nov. 2022
• Often, the best acting contenders come from the best shows in a particular category, since a great performance tends to make the show around it great.
  — Alan Sepinwall, Rolling Stone, 9 Sep. 2022
• Perhaps the only downside to having so much material and trying to fit it on a setlist is that most of the songs were condensed by half of their runtime, if not more, to keep the show around a two-hour set.
  — Brenton Blanchet, Peoplemag, 23 Jan. 2023
• Survivor was the most popular show around, and a pop culture phenomenon.
  — Dalton Ross, EW.com, 17 Aug. 2020
• Berlin, a wildly popular character from the original series, was always going to be tricky for the franchise to build a show around.
  — Lili Loofbourow, Washington Post, 29 Dec. 2023
• Gates will open at 5 p.m. and the festival ends after the balloon glow and laser light show around 9 p.m., said director Jeremy Kwaterski.
  — Annie Alleman, Chicago Tribune, 13 July 2022
• From prestige dramas like Anatomy of a Scandal (the #1 English-language Netflix show around the world right now) to dumb reality series.
  — Andy Meek, BGR, 28 Apr. 2022

Last Updated: 12 Nov 2024