How do you use the word "about" in a sentence?

Q: How do you use the word "about" in a sentence?

Here are real-life examples of using "about": I suppose it's different when you think about it over the long term. Most people write about their daily life.

About Meaning

/əˈbaʊ̯t/

Definition, CEFR level A1, pronunciation, examples, and quiz.

Definition

prepIn a circle around; all round; on every side of; on the outside of; around.

prepOver or upon different parts of; through or over in various directions; here and there in; to and fro in; throughout.

Sentence Examples

I suppose it's different when you think about it over the long term.

Most people write about their daily life.

The company had made false claims about its products.

Synonyms & Antonyms

Synonyms:

some around active

Antonyms:

inactive

CEFR Practice Quiz

The teacher will speak ____ the importance of recycling in class today.

CEFR Practice Quiz (Alternate)

What is the book ____ you are currently reading?.

Word Origin & History

Etymology tree Proto-Germanic *ana- Proto-West Germanic *ana- Old English on-? Proto-Indo-European *h₁ep-der. Proto-Indo-European *h₁épsder. Proto-Indo-European *h₁epider. Proto-Indo-European *h₁pi Proto-Germanic *bi Proto-West Germanic *bī Proto-West Germanic *bi- Proto-Indo-European *úd Proto-Germanic *ūt Proto-West Germanic *ūtō Proto-West Germanic *ūtan Proto-West Germanic *biūtan Old English būtan Old English onbūtan Middle English aboute English about Preposition and adverb from Middle English aboute, abouten, from Old English abūtan, onbūtan, from on (“in, on”) + būtan (“outside of”), itself from be (“by”) + ūtan (“outside”). Cognate with Old Frisian abûta (“outside; except”). Adjective from Middle English about (adverb).

Literary Quotations & Historical Citations

"So look about you; know you any here?" — c. 1604–1605 (date written), William Shakespeare, “All’s Well, that Ends Well”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, (please specify the act number in uppercase Roman numerals, and the scene number in lowercase Roman numerals):

"Pagondas […] sent two companies of horse secretly about the hill; whereby that wing of the Athenians which was victorious, apprehending upon their sudden appearing that they had been a fresh army, was put into affright:[…]" — 1843, Thomas Hobbes, The English Works of Thomas Hobbes of Malmesbury: The history of the Grecian war written by Thucydides; tr. by T. Hobbes, page 480:

"[…] for they could not get about the cape, because the wind on this coast is commonly between the NW. and SW., which makes it very difficult getting to the westward; but they left four canoes with forty-six men at the cape,[…]" — 1874, David Laing Purves, The English Circumnavigators: The Most Remarkable Voyages Round the World by English Sailors, London : W.P. Nimmo, page 214:

"The Roman soldier found Me lying dead, my crown about my brows, […]" — 1877, Alfred Tennyson, The Works of Alfred Tennyson, Poet Laureate ..., page 241:

"She looked about her again, and at last there he was, descending the steep path toward the station. He was half a mile off, and before she could decide what to do, a train came up and stopped." — 1879, The Living Age, page 727:

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