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turn - use in sentences
Object
- round: But there was another tunnel, even longer, with restricted usage times, so we decided to turn round and head south.
- corner: At that moment Cormac turned the corner of the hut, bearing an earthen jar of water on his shoulder.
- tide: Neither you nor Anglicanism will be able " to turn the tide.
- clock: We can not turn back the clock to the days when extension pathology was generously resourced.
- eye: Police, apparently, turn a blind eye to such trifles.
Preposition: on
- sixpence: Yet fashions in dance can turn on a sixpence.
Preposition: at
- T-junction: Turn right at a T-junction to cross the bridge and ascend to the main valley road at Mill Bridge.
- mini-roundabout: Turn right at next double mini-roundabout into Bromham Road.
Adjective modifier
- sharp: Passage definitely seems to be taking sharp right turn.
Followed by an intransitive particle
- out: The NEC turned out to be worse than any of us imagined.
- around: He turned around in a circle like a dog chasing its tail.
- off: The gas is turned off at the oven, by the way.
- up: I then turned up at the first class session of the module.
- over: The cards in the magician's hand are immediately turned over to reveal the spectator's selections!
- down: I reserve the right to edit or turn down what you send in.
Followed by a transitive particle
- off: Changing play lists, turning off the player, or even changing tracks all resulted in the original material being paused ready for resuming.
- down: After 200 yards there is a right hand turn down a track.
- around: Published: 17 June 2003 Kelly vision Chris Kelly hopes to turn around the fortunes of the recruiter which shares his name.. .
Preposition: of
- century: The system existed for 500 years until the turn of the 16th century when rent payments replaced labor.
Noun used with modifier
- junction: Follow road to ' T ' junction turn left.
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