turns Examples

Examples of turns in a Sentence

Examples of turn
1. Watch out! The road dead-ends in 200 yards and there's nowhere to turn around!
2. People who are down and out need some place to turn.
3. Seeing the British establishment struggle with the financial sector is like watching an alcoholic who still resists the idea that something drastic needs to happen for him to turn his life around.
4. Luckily for these unfortunate forgottens, New Year is approaching, a time when, despite the intuitions of the calendar, our thoughts often turn to the past.
5. They can turn the game around in the second half. ‎
6. We have dealt with the generals; now let us turn to the particulars.
Examples of turns
1. Drive carefully. That road has a lot of hairpin turns.
2. Its ending is heavyhanded: the main character turns and addresses the audience--and it's made clear he's talking specifically to the black audience only--and tells them to "wake up.
3. Investment in illiquid assets may prove to be a mistake if the market turns down.
4. It turns out my back-fence neighbor is kin to one of my co-workers.
5. The one-handed shooter, the target man who fires the national match course, turns about 45 degrees from the target, separates his feet about the same distance, fully extends his hand, locking the elbow, and with head and body erect looks over the sights.
6. Yet when she turns away, raising those arms in a priestesslike gesture, that fabric acts as a curtain, shielding her from prying eyes.
7. But thanks to the charmless chunk of schmancy condos now going up on Brooklyn’s Fourth Avenue (the Champs Élysées of auto parts stores), the rooftop sunsets we savored in summers past were, it turns out, our last.
8. The head that turns at superlunar things. — Alexander Pope.
Examples of turned
1. There's a TV commercial out now for a nasal spray in which a man in need of a decongestant wakes up to find that his entire head has turned into a giant schnozz.
2. I was the only unicyclist in my English class, but it turned out there was another in my school class, and two more due to come in with next year's class.
3. And Aaron stretched forth his hand, holding the rod: and he struck the dust of the earth, and there came sciniphs on men and on beasts: all the dust of the earth was turned into sciniphs through all the land of Egypt. Exodus 8:17 (Douay version)
4. We saw a rat scuttering into a dark corner as we turned on the lights.
5. When the long-awaited moment arrived, Vista turned out to be in as sorry a state of semicompletion as Mr. Jobs could have hoped for.
6. Her friend April turned to her and asked in a semiwhisper, “Is it worth $100,000 to learn that?”
7. He grew up as a farmer and later turned to shopkeeping.
Examples of turning
1. While from his ardent look the turning Spring averts her blushful face. — Thomson.
2. She shot me a cold glance before turning her back. ‎
3. Not turning up for training was pretty crook.
4. Turning, boring, milling, and drilling are all different kinds of metal cutting processes.
5. With the weather turning colder, it was time to dig out our flannel sheets and nightclothes.
6. The sexual revolution was in many ways inversive, turning many older ideas on their heads.
7. A doorknob of whatever roundish shape is effectively a continuum of levers, with the axis of the latching mechanism—known as the spindle—being the fulcrum about which the turning takes place.
8. You can level the table by turning the pads that screw into the feet. ‎
9. On his first dive, Ralph got really narced, and thought he was turning into a sea turtle.