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Example sentences for "turn from"

  • I turn from Scripture to matters of fact and experience.

  • Only tell the young man who is "wasting his substance in riotous living" that there is heaven at last even for those who live and die in sin, and he is never likely to turn from evil.

  • But I turn from it with an equally deep conviction that if we believe the Bible we must never give up anything which it contains.

  • To turn from I Beoni to Lorenzo's Lauds, written at his mother's request, and to the sacred play of S.

  • Shall I turn from it and let come what may?

  • But, remember what I have already said, there is, there must be, a foundation beneath all these legends which admonish mankind to turn from evil to good.

  • She is the last woman in the world to turn from it.

  • Is it unusual, Madam, for a woman who has seen much of the world to turn from it to the solace and promise of the Church?

  • Nevertheless, if thou warn the wicked of his way to turn from it; if he do not turn from his way, he shall die in his iniquity; but thou hast delivered thy soul.

  • Avoid it, pass not by it, turn from it, and pass away.

  • Their will has been exercised in revolt; and when life is ended, it is too late to turn the current of their thoughts in the opposite direction, too late to turn from transgression to obedience, from hatred to love.

  • Long may we hearken to you in secret, ere we hear many of you mourn for these things, or turn from them.

  • To the blaze of the sun and the wings of the blast; Will ye turn from a struggle so bravely begun, From a foe that is breaking, a field that's half won?

  • Shines on the eyes that will not see, And waits to bless us, while we dream Thou leavest us because we turn from thee!

  • To turn from a direct line or course; to bend; to incline, to deflect; to curve; to bow.

  • Defn: To turn from a straight line or course; to bend; to crook.

  • To alienate the affections or confidence of; to turn from attachment to enmity or indifference.

  • Shrink from me, turn from me, mother and child.

  • To turn from, or divest of, Christianity.

  • To turn from a straight line; to bend; to curve.

  • To make irreligious; to turn from religion.

  • To turn from Signorelli to Perugino is to plunge at once into a very different atmosphere[217].

  • It is refreshing to turn from the epigoni of the so-called Roman school to masters in whom the flame of the Renaissance still burned brightly.

  • In the meanwhile let us turn from Chretien to the broader tableau of the Old French prose, and note the beginning of Artus, as he is there called.

  • He can turn from no one; teach your thoughts never to turn from Him.

  • Turn from me now, but always hear The muted laughter in the dew Of that one year of youth we had, The only youth we ever knew-- Turn from me now, or you will see What other years have done to me.

  • Change Remember me as I was then; Turn from me now, but always see The laughing shadowy girl who stood At midnight by the flowering tree, With eyes that love had made as bright As the trembling stars of the summer night.

  • It is but narrowness or intellectual pharisaism to turn from a great author because in his life and works there may be things of which we cannot approve.

  • It is a prompting of nature to turn from what we have to what we lack, for thus only is there hope of amendment and progress.

  • Gladly I turn from them to you, young gentlemen, who have persevered in the pursuit of knowledge and virtue, and to-day are declared worthy to receive the highest honor Notre Dame can confer.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
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