go-round

[ goh-round ]
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How to use go-round in a sentence

  • She revisits the fury over the “Mommy Track” and the many go-rounds of the full-time motherhood vs. full-time work argument.

    The Journey of the American Woman | Christine Stansell | November 4, 2009 | THE DAILY BEAST
  • The merry-go-rounds glint and clank under the shadow of a church.

    American Sketches | Charles Whibley
  • Somebody must 'a' ben thinkin' o' Fiddy Maddox when the invented them whirl-a-go-rounds.

    The Village Watch-Tower | (AKA Kate Douglas Riggs) Kate Douglas Wiggin
  • The oaks and the pines and the huckleberry bushes were dancing great giddy-go-rounds, a reflection of the whirlpool in my brain.

    The Rise of Roscoe Paine | Joseph C. Lincoln
  • They might better be engaged in brass-ring-snatching contests at the merry-go-rounds of public fairs.

    The Last Shot | Frederick Palmer
  • It is a very gay place even now in war time; there are merry-go-rounds, roller-coasters and all kinds of side shows.

    Germany in War Time | Mary Ethel McAuley

British Dictionary definitions for go round

go round

verb(intr)
  1. same as go around

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