Sentence examples for About from high-quality English sources.

• “It’s about betrayal.

• It's about being free.

• “What is it all about?

• "It's about immigration.

• It’s about the movies, about cinema itself.

• ; movies about racism; movies about genocide (in 3-D!)

• It is about photo ops, and – yes – about shaking hands.

• He said: “This is not about you Stacey Dooley, it’s about the child.

Use About in a sentence.

• Can we only speak the truth about a phenomenon if we hold accurate beliefs about?

• America is about freedom, about second chances, about the American dream, about living life without fear.

• Batrachoidiforms grow to about 30 cm (about 12 inches) in length, and the largest percopsiforms are about 15 cm (6 inches) long.

• I’m happy to throw down a few drinks and talk about this stuff, but the greatest security is being in a space where you’re actually talking about issues you care about, not about yourself.

• The sorts of jokes that the English used to tell about the Irish, the Americans about the Poles, the Ibos about the Hausas and the Tajiks about the Uzbeks, are now often told about blonds (or, more usually, blondes):

• They are stuck in a “bubble,” unable to recognize any new information that doesn’t match their convictions — about life, about America, about politics, about the value of notional currencies, about the relative values of tulips and houses, about anything.

• We learned about a new, lower R number in Scotland, about encouraging downward trends in the data, about £11m support for impoverished students, about a go-ahead for construction site work (warmly welcomed by the industry), about an extension to Help to Buy, and about progress in Test and Protect.

• "I think one message that I would say is this is not just about a man who was a basketball player, this is about a father, this is about a leader, this is about a filmmaker, this is about an artist, this is about somebody who was so much more than just how he was on the court," Garcetti later told the Times.

About sentence examples

• “If you care about your kids and your grandkids, if you care about disadvantaged communities, if you care about seniors, if you care about rural communities, if you care about inner city communities that have been underserved by our fossil fuel economy, then you care about the core construct that we are advancing here in this executive order,” he added.

• Students wrote about attending protests and learning to be anti-racist; about their parents getting laid off and people they knew dying from Covid-19; about their own experiences with racism and “white fragility”; about going back to school and learning from home; about toppling monuments and renaming institutions; about video calling, letter writing, bird-watching and pandemic hugging; about essential workers, “anti-maskers” and the meaning of freedom.

• In a widely circulated speech in February, 2010, Han said, “I can’t write about the police, I can’t write about the leaders, I can’t write about policies, I can’t write about the system, I can’t write about the judiciary, I can’t write about many pieces of history, I can’t write about Tibet, I can’t write about Xinjiang, I can’t write about mass assemblies, I can’t write about demonstrations, I can’t write about pornography, I can’t write about censorship, I can’t write about art.”

• Needless to say, such an outline describes very little of what The Mark and The Void contains, because this is a novel about the nature of our society, about civilisation itself; about (as Paul hopes) “modernity as it really is”; about how a large bank “creates its own reality”; about the true nature of capitalism, the true nature of art; about how the beleaguered latter responds to the rampant former; about philosophy; about anthropology, the human story, our simulacra and our chimeras; about what technology is doing to us; about alienation, globalisation, money.