hereabouts
Example Sentences
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Ousmane Sonko, who runs the Children's Empire shelter in Dakar, said parents sometimes resist taking their children back because they do not believe the marabouts are abusive.
From Reuters • Apr. 15, 2010
Despite the many problems, officials and activists say that some daaras are honest, legitimate and free from abuse, and some pupils become marabouts or respected imams.
From Los Angeles Times
It was implemented in 2010 when seven marabouts were convicted.
From Los Angeles Times
With regard to the marabouts, they seem quiet enough.
From Narrative of a Mission to Central Africa Performed in the Years 1850-51, Volume 1 Under the Orders and at the Expense of Her Majesty's Government by Richardson, James
And indeed Mrs. Stokes cried out with rapture, the instant the bonnet filled her eye, that it was "A sweet little bonnet—blue crape and white marabouts!"
From The Vicissitudes of Bessie Fairfax by Lee, Holme, [pseud.]
