surroundings
Example Sentences
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Mike said knowing the surroundings are safe helps people like him find their way around with confidence.
From BBC
People constantly take in information from their surroundings, including visual details and background sounds.
From Science Daily
The camera cuts to Elizabeth’s actual surroundings: a New York City apartment, where the radiator clacks and hisses in place of a crackling fire, and the view is brick, not snow-dusted pasture.
From Salon
The idea helps explain why organisms are rarely perfectly matched to their surroundings.
From Science Daily
Anderson went on to spend nearly a decade at Aurora and led development of a Lidar system that bounces lasers off objects to capture surroundings in 3-D.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
