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Example sentences for "turn aside"

  • SAY: this is a weighty message,19 From which ye turn aside!

  • Whoso shall turn his back to them on that day, unless he turn aside to fight, or to rally to some other troop, shall incur wrath from God: Hell shall be his abode and wretched the journey thither!

  • And if ye turn aside from my admonitions, I ask not any reward of you for the same;e I expect my reward from GOD alone, and I am commanded to be one of those who are resigned unto him.

  • Say, it is a weighty message, from which ye turn aside.

  • And let not Satan cause you to turn aside: for he is your open enemy.

  • To turn aside; to deviate from a right or a horizontal line, or from a proper position, course or direction; to swerve.

  • We can now, if we wish, turn aside to the south-east without again coming in contact with Rawling's route.

  • A labyrinth of mountains spreads itself out in the direction of our march, and therefore we turn aside to the north-east and encamp in the mouth of a valley.

  • It turned out later that the youth had led us astray, omitting to turn aside through a southern valley to the pass Gurtse-la.

  • As soon as we turn aside to vain janglings and doubtful disputations, we get upon the devil's ground.

  • To divert or turn aside from an intended course; not to divert or amuse.

  • Thou hast chosen the way to life, God's way; but perhaps thy ignorance about it is so great, and those that tempt thee to turn aside so many and so subtle, that they seem to outwit thee and confound thee with their guile.

  • The king said, Turn aside, and stand here.

  • For behold the battle is before us, and the water of the Jordan on this side and on that side, and banks, and marshes, and woods: and there is no place for us to turn aside.

  • And when he had seen the kinsman going by, of whom he had spoken before, he said to him, calling him by his name: Turn aside for a little while, and sit down here.

  • And nevertheless the angel going on to a narrow place, where there was no way to turn aside either to the right hand or to the left, stood to meet him.

  • To turn aside; to elude; to disappoint; to frustrate; to baffle.

  • He tried to make a reckoning of the point at which Tom Ross had been compelled to turn aside, and he reckoned that it lay northwest.

  • Henry said at last that they had come to the place where Jim Hart had been forced to turn aside.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    bearing date; call for; dense forest; much farther; much trouble; open door; turn again; turn out; turn the; turn them; turned abruptly; turned back; turned himself; turned quickly; turned toward; turned unto; turned upon; turning back; turning from; turning movement; turning over; turning point; turning round; turning sharply; turning towards; turns away