put about

verb

1. nautical to change course or cause to change course

   we put about and headed for home

2. (tr) to make widely known

3. (tr; usually passive) to disconcert or disturb

Example Sentences

"Some of the scare stories put about a few months ago were perhaps a bit overblown," Maguire told BBC Sport.

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The fire put about 50 employees at the restaurant out of work, he said.

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After that first winter in 2009, when he shot two deer and put about 150 pounds of meat in the freezer, a buddy invited him to an archery tournament.

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So the great-grandson of oil tycoon Armand Hammer traded it in for a “tiny” new car that’s a hybrid, and said he was “probably going to put about 10 bucks of gas in it a month.”

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Since being back in the City of Angels the past few weeks, he said that he put about $400 to $500 worth of gas in the truck and “can’t afford the gas anymore.”

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