A few suspicious strangers were about the village after midnight.

She was about to leave the house when she realized she had forgotten her keys.

She was on about the project's deadline at every meeting.

The drill sergeant counted the recruits' right-abouts as they practiced the parade ground routine.

The theater troupe's knock abouts always had the audience laughing until they cried.

The politician's frequent turn abouts on policy left voters confused and distrustful.

The museum cataloged the left-abouts from the excavation before deciding what to conserve.

The novelist's plot was full of unexpected turn-abouts that kept readers guessing.

On Sunday afternoons she likes to potter about in the garden, planting a few bulbs and tidying the borders.

She bosses about her younger siblings, telling them when to study and when to play.