Revolve around
X revolves around Y (verb) - Y is the main emphasis or focus of person or activity X
life revolves around Y
life revolves around football
life revolves around her family
the programme revolves around X
everything revolves around me
the workshop revolves around X
the discussion revolved around Y
the conversation revolved around what we were eating
the book revolved around X
the plot of the book revolved around Z
her career revolved around Y
his job revolved around X
work revolved around Y
her day revolved around her family
his hopes revolved around a scheme for Y
the debate revolved around Y
a proposal that revolves around
life revolves around Z
Example sentences:
* "A mother's life revolves around her child."
* "Much of a dolphin's life revolves around finding and eating food, and it has evolved a highly developed jaw and sonar system to serve its feeding requirements."
* "The new fitness programme for slobs revolves around three numbers: your weight, your time for swimming a kilometre, and your time for a five-kilometre run."
* "Fishing, it all revolves around correct timing, and this depends on the reactions of the fish."
* "Maybe I was a bit vain and thought the world revolved around me, but it was my way of motivating myself, and it worked for a while until my wife left me."
* "Administrative work revolved around files which were the place where people did their work."
* "The whole story revolved around a punch-up in a Middlesbrough pub between some macho men and an African poet."
* "Attending a weekly group for disabled artists, workshops revolve around dance, drama, art and music."
* "Half the plot of this book appears to revolve around people holding guns on other people."
* "The most heated discussion in the play revolved around the question of whether she or rather now "he," should change her, I mean "his," name after her sex change operation."
* "For me everything revolves around football."
* "So much of my summer activity revolves around boats and the sea."
* "The tale revolves around Jacque's career as a young man seeking his fortune in London."
* "Bitterly aware of a deep flush spreading over her cheeks, Laura closed her eyes for a moment as they continued to revolve around the dance-floor." (How is this meaning different?)
* "And what publicity there has been has revolved around the fact that methane is generated in the guts of ruminants, such as cows, and then belched into the atmosphere!"
* "A large chunk of his early career revolved around managing some very sensitive and tempermental clients who always seemed to be on the verge of jumping ship."
* "The interview revolved around vegetarianism."
* "In the 1940s and early 1950s football remained the ruling passion of working men without cars and televisions, whose world still revolved around the communal life of the works, the pub, and the match."
* "There comes a time, of course, when your life as a nurse seems to revolve around very little but hospital wards, white coats, foul-smelling flower-water and comatose doctors."
* "Often the justification for regulating insider dealing has revolved around issues of fairness and market confidence, but economic arguments have also been advocated."
* "Almost all forms of religion in Egypt revolved around the cults of life after death."
* "Since diplomacy largely revolved around the family relationships of princely dynasties this meant that children had to expect to be betrothed early, and occasionally even married early."
* "For all the discomfort of going home covered in evil-smelling dust, of whole living spaces colonised by the drill of the tin bath and the miner's ablutions, and the pollution produced by the sulphurous rags, the miner had some advantages: the home revolved around him and his needs."
* "In a Christian world view which revolves around the battle of good and evil, could not the devil, known as the father of lies, cause the gifts of God to be aped?"
* "Last year she proposed a new risk assessment system for water pollutants that revolves around just such a distinction."
* "For most people, the middle years of marriage are the child-rearing years, life revolves around running the family."
* "The action in the film revolves around a failed robbery and the attempts of the various hoods involved (all dressed in black suits and ties and given colour-coded aliases) to figure out which one of their number is an undercover cop."
* "A Christian service revolves around Christ."
* "Now more than ever life revolves around what the government might do next."
* "She is a perfectionist and an organiser and her life revolves around lists."
* "He thinks the whole world revolves around his project."
* "As every parent with young children knows only too well, life revolves around mealtimes."
* "Their lives revolve around the home, unlike in earlier cult shows like Dynasty (the office, the hotel lobby) or EastEnders (the community square)."
* "The Karimojong are semi-nomadic pastoralists whose economic, social and cultural life revolves around cattle."
* "The question revolves around whether revenue should have been recognised in the first place, i.e. had a sale taken place at all."
* "The whole film revolves around the idea that travellers are gypsies leading a nomadic lifestyle."
* "The hospital needs to revolve around the needs of the patients, rather than the reverse."
* "Social life in the country may revolve around entertainment of business associates and other expatriates in the home."
* "The debate on whether insider dealing should or should not be regulated would appear to revolve around difference in moral values and differences as to the factual consequences of insider dealing."
* "For some women there are both parents and a partner to care for, making their day revolve around caring."
* "For very old people, whose security and confidence may revolve around a relatively small number of tried and tested commodities and services, the withdrawal of this product may be experienced as particularly threatening."
* "The economic arguments regarding the efficiency or otherwise of insider dealing revolve around three areas: (i) insider dealing as a means of compensation; (ii) insider dealing as a means of improving allocative efficiency (both in terms of market speed and smoothness); and (iii) insider dealing and enforcement."
* "Sarah understood instinctively the romantic feel of the product, coupled with Laura's personal philosophy of being true to oneself as a woman and letting everything revolve around the home."
* "Much of the work of determining the attractiveness of the industry or market place will revolve around estimates of profitability, where accounting knowledge can help prevent significant errors in interpreting accounting statements."
* "The son is indulgently allowed to be noisy, greedy and disobedient; the daughters are usually quiet, helpful, punctual, deputy mothers, but in a tight spot they have to be busily frightened while the (otherwise irresponsible) male child takes charge of the situation… the first two hundred pages of the very long novel revolve around the Marsaud family and a not unreasonable answer to the question 'Where is Madame Marsaud?.' The answer might be might 'She is under house arrest' but one is never quite sure, after all, they live in a police state."
* "Much of our discussion will revolve around two notions crucial to an understanding of the market and central to its theory, competition and entrepreneurship."
* "Essentially, the arguments revolve around whether the health service should be considered as an agent in the improvement of the health (status) of the population, and thus concerned with promoting and restoring health and preventing ill-health, or whether it is a provider of a commodity, health (care) services."
* "I never really consciously set out to do war photography, I set out to do political photography, international politics and a lot of that revolves around conflict."
* "Many early religious cults revolved around sexuality."
* "The Royal Ballet remained very much the centre of Shaw's world, and his pithy comments revolved around its artistic and social manoeuvres, but the mainspring of his life, the glory and challenge of being a supreme athlete and artist on stage, could not be replaced."
* "Pre-scientific thinking about sleep and dreaming is often said to have revolved around the two notions of the soul leaving the body during sleep, or of the body being visited by spirits, gods and demons offering revelations and glimpses into the future, or wandering nightmares."
* "As was usual with Otto, the conversation revolved around what we were eating."
* "In 1649 his hopes revolved around a scheme for developing the economy of Virginia."
* "Control of public expenditure until the 1960s was highly fragmented and largely revolved around the consideration of annual estimates: there was little or no attempt to plan expenditure programmes for the medium or long term."
* "As expected, arguments during the inquiry revolved around legal interpretation of the evidence purporting to validate McAlpine's claim, and the extent of the Secretary of State's powers (under case law) to resolve the dispute."
* "Up to secondary school her life had revolved around her family."
* "Virtually every page of the book revolved around the current guerilla war in Columbia."
* "Clinton's chief henchman, Venner, was an amiable enough fellow but his conversation revolved around beer and cock fighting and the virtues of one breed of horse over another."
* "The campaign revolved around the issue of whether negotiations with the drug cartels to end the current violence should take precedence over efforts to bring them to justice."
