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around and around

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around and around
in a circle. The skater twirled around and around, faster and faster.
Related vocabulary: go (around) in circles, go around and around
See also: around
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He tied some metal mugs to a dog's tail and turned him loose, and he tore around and around the place in a frenzy of fright, with all the other dogs bellowing after him and battering and crashing against everything that came in their way and making altogether a chaos of confusion and a most deafening din and turmoil; at which every man and woman of the multitude laughed till the tears flowed, and some fell out of their chairs and wallowed on the floor in ecstasy.
A Connecticut Yankee by Twain, Mark View in context
They wandered around and around but could not find their way down to the seashore.
The Story of Doctor Dolittle by Lofting, Hugh View in context
Then he tried to look at himself; but he had, indeed, no neck to turn; so that in the endeavor to see his body he kept circling around and around, without catching even a glimpse of it.
The Marvelous Land of Oz by Baum, L. Frank View in context
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