How to Use kick around in a Sentence

kick around

verb
  • I really can't do much but kick around at work until I get the rest of the submissions.
  • The group kicked around a bunch of names.
    — Brendan Quinn, New York Times, 29 Sep. 2025
  • How much time do you guys spend kicking around one-off jokes?
    — Todd Vanderwerff, Vox, 15 June 2018
  • So of course, there’s things kicking around in my head with this show.
    — Alison Herman, Variety, 5 Nov. 2025
  • The idea of a Space Force has been kicked around for decades.
    — National Geographic, 19 June 2018
  • The boys kick around a soccer ball and run through the hallways.
    — Washington Post, 18 Oct. 2017
  • In other words, these ideas have been kicking around for a while.
    — Benjamin Wallace-Wells, The New Yorker, 18 July 2024
  • Of course, that’s not the only hack kicking around this week.
    — PC Magazine, 10 Oct. 2025
  • In the event of an attack, poke at its eyes, and punch and kick around its face and head.
    — Diamond Walker, USA Today, 29 Apr. 2025
  • Amateurs could buy a pair for that one big job, then kick around in them for years.
    — Bob Beacham, Field & Stream, 1 Nov. 2023
  • At the beach, Bear was kicking around a soccer ball with his dad.
    — Susan Dominus, New York Times, 3 Mar. 2024
  • The three writers spent two hours kicking around ideas but came up empty.
    — Tom Roland, Billboard, 20 Mar. 2024
  • Benavides said his club has been kicking around the idea for four or five years.
    — Bill Oram, oregonlive, 23 Mar. 2023
  • One of the things that have been kicked around is a one-time 5% tax on billionaires.
    — Nicole Nixon, Sacbee.com, 6 Jan. 2026
  • That bill's kicked around on the House's calendar for a few weeks now.
    — Seth Klamann, Denver Post, 13 Apr. 2026
  • The court cases about it, which have been kicking around for a long time now, will likely be moot.
    — Isaac Chotiner, The New Yorker, 2 Mar. 2023
  • The foursome kicked around names for their group – The Dream Team?
    — Brian Martin, Orange County Register, 17 Oct. 2024
  • So Trump will still have Vance to kick around, whether either of them likes it or not.
    — Amy Davidson Sorkin, New Yorker, 18 Apr. 2026
  • Ideas are kicked around before the chefs propose a few different menus.
    — Darlene Superville, The Christian Science Monitor, 22 May 2024
  • Those moments inspire a young fan to kick around a soccer ball rather than throw a football.
    — Andrew Joseph, USA TODAY, 10 Oct. 2017
  • Ronnie Forchheimer had been kicking around the idea for years.
    — Dom Amore, Hartford Courant, 18 Feb. 2023
  • One of the ideas that has been kicked around is putting the playoff event in larger cities and more historic venues.
    — Bob Buttitta, Oc Register, 23 Feb. 2026
  • The project, in one form or another, had already been kicking around for decades.
    — Dan Walters, The Mercury News, 4 June 2024
  • The Gadfly will not have Michael Hill to kick around anymore.
    — Christopher Maag, New York Times, 3 Apr. 2025
  • Center, the former sportswriter, is kicking around ideas about sport-by-sport kiosks, as well.
    — Bryce Miller, sandiegouniontribune.com, 29 Sep. 2017
  • Gold and Rubio kicked around the idea of creating an award for long snappers.
    — Brad Biggs, chicagotribune.com, 28 Nov. 2019
  • Dolores and Hale aren't the only two hosts kicking around in the real world.
    — Josh Wigler, The Hollywood Reporter, 26 June 2018
  • The idea of a solid-state transformer has been kicking around in academia and industry for years.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 11 Dec. 2024
  • Even before that, Chaiken had been kicking around a concept for a comeback.
    — Chuck Barney, The Mercury News, 2 Aug. 2019
  • It was kicked around and Tatum fouled Reed, who calmly ripped another pair.
    — Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com, 1 May 2023

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