revolve

Example Sentences

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Many proposals for a smaller Fed balance sheet revolve around regulatory reforms that could encourage banks to reduce the quantity of reserves they want to hold.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 26, 2026

The lyrics of trot songs typically revolve around love and separation, or the yearning for a warm, familiar home.

From BBC • Feb. 21, 2026

Her days now revolve around planning when she can use electricity -- to "do laundry, wash, recharge batteries."

From Barron's • Feb. 19, 2026

That’s not the case for huge swaths of the population here, and certainly not for the people whose entire livelihoods revolve around dealing with the trash and pollutants that are the cost of development.

From Slate • Feb. 12, 2026

Then she twirled the wire hanger to make the dress revolve in front of Salvador.

From "Lupita Mañana" by Patricia Beatty