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Example sentences for "turn around"

  • But the old man held her back and said: "Lovely maiden, turn around!

  • Then the old man said: "Lovely maiden, turn around!

  • I reckon I'll walk on a little farther along this road, and look at these trees and flowers; and then I'll turn around and go back to the town.

  • Then Seammux slowly and carefully began to turn around in the tough bending tree that held him, and to work in toward the face of the cliff; and the men above began slowly to haul in on the rope.

  • After breakfast Elmer, accompanied by Chatz and Lil Artha, started out to take a turn around in the woods, and look for signs of a trail made by bare feet.

  • For five cents I'd turn around, and go back to give him the licking he needs.

  • AB3; ac1] turn around on itself in the air, cause s.

  • We're up in the air now, and it may be easy to turn around and go back.

  • We can't turn around and go back in this gale, and we can't descend.

  • Are you sure you can't turn around and go back?

  • She didn't see how there was room enough to turn around!

  • There was plenty of room to turn around on the other side of the stream, and soon Toby was clattering over the bridge, under which the stream ran.

  • Then Bunker showed them how to turn around, and how to make Toby back up, in case they got to such a narrow place in the road that there was not room to turn.

  • But first I'll turn around so we can get out of this sand.

  • There is not room in which to turn around.

  • A rickety table, a chair, and a couple of boxes left little space in which to turn around.

  • By the time I had added an ordinary typewriter table to its scanty furnishing, I was hard put to turn around; at the best, I managed to navigate it by a sort of vermicular progression requiring great dexterity and presence of mind.

  • My arm was hanging out the window, the radio was booming, and Craphound said "Turn around!

  • I wanted much to stay here until the following day but the irritation shown by the Reverend Father Fray Narciso Duran, who wanted to turn around, determined me to accede to his wishes and retreat, although with inward misgivings.

  • When I was able to turn around again, I saw that an Indian had covered up the poor old woman with firewood and had ignited it so as to burn her alive.

  • We started up the river at six o'clock in the morning with the intention of finding an open spot where a cross might be set up, and where we might cease our ascent of the river, turn around, and retreat downstream.

  • Turn around, and come back with us at once, please!

  • He wanted to turn around in the pit and say something cheerful to Freddy Farmer in back.

  • Turn around at once, and return with us, please, or we will shoot you down into the water.

  • Can't you see there ain't room enough to turn around in this road?

  • There's only one way to turn around, and I'm taking it.

  • I ain't going to turn around in Fisher's lane, Anderson.

  • It's all a good-sized dog c'n do to turn around in that road.

  • He had barely left the village, when the Horse began to turn around, toward the house.

  • He began to check his horse: he wanted to turn around; but the horse was running at full speed and could not be stopped, and he flew straight toward them.

  • We couldn't turn around in this road even if we wanted to.

  • To turn around on such a road was out of the question, even if Matt had desired to do so--which he did not.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "turn around" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.


    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    broken head; concentrated sulphuric; man would; pine tree; properly speaking; taking place; turn around; turn out; turn over; turn round; turned from; turned his; turned out; turned over; turned quickly; turned toward; turned towards; turning around; turning from; turning movement; turning pale; turning point; turning sharply; turning them; turning towards; what has been said