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Example sentences for "turn away"

  • Our transgression does not make Him turn away from us.

  • Strange and awful fact that men do turn away from it and Him.

  • The subsequent context tells us how wise it is thus to turn away, and what folly it is to make anything else our hope except that 'throne of glory.

  • When we turn our backs on Him we are full front with the deformed figure of Evil; when we turn away from it, we are face to face with Him, and in Him, with all Good.

  • If then, ye repent, it were best for you; but if ye turn away, know ye that ye cannot frustrate Allah.

  • But if ye turn away, then know that the duty of Our messenger is only plain conveyance (of the message).

  • Nurse won't give me a glass, But I see the folks as they pass Shudder and turn away; Turn away in distress .

  • And men look at me with eyes that borrow The brightness of love, but I turn away; Alone, say I, I will live with Sorrow, In my little villa at Viroflay.

  • Upon this she looked so lovely, with her dark eyelashes trembling, and her soft eyes full of light, and the colour of clear sunrise mounting on her cheeks and brow, that I was forced to turn away, being overcome with beauty.

  • In vain she strove to turn away; fright had stricken her stiff as stone.

  • And I tried to turn away, without another word, and go.

  • It was the jealous cruelty of Pharaoh which drew down upon his country the very perils he laboured to turn away.

  • To turn away; to abandon or reject something; specifically, to turn away, or shrink, with abhorrence.

  • To cast off as useless or as no longer of service; to dismiss from employment, confidence, or favor; to discharge; to turn away.

  • She tried to lift her eyes to the inquisitor, but her irrepressible twitter came again and she had to turn away to the big chimney.

  • The boat was rounding to at a wood-yard and most of the company were glad to turn away to the shoreward scene.

  • Let her put her soul the very center of my soul, never to turn away.

  • Your soul has come into the very center of my soul, never to turn away.

  • I, and was about to turn away, when he drew the nearest fist abruptly from his pocket, and extended it towards me.

  • I was about to turn away when a man stepped out into the moonlight.

  • His face wore a confident smile, but nevertheless he took up the hammer with such a businesslike air that my heart sank, and, feeling a touch upon my arm, I was glad to turn away.

  • You owe me nothing, sir," he answered hastily, and prepared to turn away.

  • She did not resist or withdraw it, and, after the retention of an instant only, he released it, and was about to turn away.

  • We turn away in haste, lest the object of our worship should become degraded by a longer survey.

  • Thus musing on the lights and shadows of Paris, I turn away half in admiration and half in pity, but all in love.

  • With such solemn thoughts we turn away, with footsteps sad and slow, from that royal tomb, and leave the wretched sleeper to the judgment of history and of God.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "turn away" 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:
    but while; republican government; special type; strongly keeled; thirteenth century; total force; turn again; turn away; turn from; turn over; turn thee; turned away; turned back; turned down; turned from; turned loose; turned over; turned round; turned toward; turned towards; turned upside; turning about; turning from; turning over; turning them; turning towards