build around

Meaning

1. build sth around sth

   to create sth, using sth else as a basis

   The story is built around a group of high school dropouts.

In the movies · 7

• And I need us to build defenses around here nowFast & Furious Presents: Hobbs & Shaw2019
• ...build a lie around this...The Dark Knight Rises2012
• This year, I came home to Iowa to start my own team and I wanna build it around you.American Underdog2021
• You can't build cover stories around a movie that doesn't exist.Argo2012
• We're gonna build the character around the actress.La La Land2016
• One day, I wish to build a wall around Siam.The King and I2018
• I know just the guy to play him. You just build the movie around him.Babylon2022

Learn it in full scenes

• American Underdog2021
  • Kurt Warner's Impossible Dream
  • Kurt Learns to Dance for a Girl
  • Kurt Earns Brenda's Name

From the same entry

• castles in the air
• Rome wasn't built in a day
• build in
• build on
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• build up
• build up to
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