REVOLVE in a Sentence

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92 example sentences for REVOLVE, such as:

1. Thus a wheel revolves on its axle.
2. There was one notch in the handle of his revolver.
3. The conversation revolved around childcare problems.
4. Since childhood, her life has revolved around tennis.
5. All of the company revolve around the project this month.

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 Meanings and Examples of REVOLVE
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
revolve
 v.  turn or roll round on, or as on, an axis, like a wheel; rotate; move in curved path round a center; pass in cycles
Classic Sentence: (75 in 6 pages)
1  I thought to find one stubborn, at the least; but my one cogged circle fits into all their various wheels, and they revolve.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 37. Sunset.
2  In a minute or two, however, it began slowly to revolve, and then the men upon each side of it sprang to work.
The Jungle By Upton Sinclair
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 3
3  They were like those double stars which revolve round and round each other, and from a distance appear to be one.
Return of the Native By Thomas Hardy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 4: 1 The Rencounter by the Pool
4  This done, the Father revolves inly another counsel, and prepares to separate Juturna from her brother's arms.
The Aeneid By Virgil
Context  Highlight   In BOOK TWELFTH
5  We learned that the earth is flat and that the sun revolves around it, which causes the day and the night.
Anthem By Ayn Rand
Context  Highlight   In PART ONE
6  Society is a revolving body which is apt to be judged according to its place in each man's heaven; and at present it was turning its illuminated face to Lily.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 4
7  Lily, for all her dissatisfied dreaming, had never really conceived the possibility of revolving about a different centre: it was easy enough to despise the world, but decidedly difficult to find any other habitable region.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: Chapter 8
8  Then she was up, her knees like water, her stomach revolving a thousand times a second, her eyes filmed, her ears full of roaring.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XV
9  At intervals, he ran close up to the revolving border of the confusion, and prying into the heart of it with his pike, sought to prick out the object of his resentment.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 54. The Town-Ho's Story.
10  Such thoughts inly revolving in her kindled bosom, the goddess reaches Aeolia, the home of storm-clouds, the land laden with furious southern gales.
The Aeneid By Virgil
Context  Highlight   In BOOK FIRST
11  Aeneas goes forth, and leaves the cavern with fixed eyes and sad countenance, his soul revolving inly the unseen issues.
The Aeneid By Virgil
Context  Highlight   In BOOK SIXTH
12  By this token in thirty revolving years shall Ascanius found a city, Alba of bright name.
The Aeneid By Virgil
Context  Highlight   In BOOK EIGHTH
13  And as a lion sees from some lofty outlook a bull stand far off on the plain revolving battle, and flies at him, even such to see is Turnus' coming.
The Aeneid By Virgil
Context  Highlight   In BOOK TENTH
14  Even now, when I am gravely revolving the matter, it is almost impossible to realise that the cause of all our trouble is still existent.
Dracula By Bram Stoker
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXIV
15  As he walked on slowly, timing his pace to theirs, he watched Corley's head which turned at every moment towards the young woman's face like a big ball revolving on a pivot.
Dubliners By James Joyce
Context  Highlight   In TWO GALLANTS
Example Sentence: (17 in 2 pages)
1  All of the company revolve around the project this month.
2  British culture now appears to revolve around the unholy trinity of sport, shopping and sex.
3  His world view revolves around a battle between rich and poor.
4  The earth revolves both round the sun and on its own axis.
5  The Earth revolves about the axis which joins the North and South Poles.
6  The debate revolves around specific accounting techniques.
7  Thus a wheel revolves on its axle.
8  This could mean that we end up with a revolving door Congress, in which former members return as lobbyists.
9  The park director position has been a revolving door for seven appointees.
10  In the first moments of waking, he looks up in puzzlement at the aged ceiling fan revolving above his bed.
11  I saw an armored protective cylinder around a revolving gun turret on that warship.
12  Since childhood, her life has revolved around tennis.
13  The conversation revolved around childcare problems.
14  Social life in my extended family, like that of most people of modest means who grew up in the country, revolved around meals, conversation, and storytelling.
15  There was one notch in the handle of his revolver.