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Example sentences for "turn round"

  • There was no sign of the three fugitives, and he allowed her to turn round.

  • Had he not been told by Mrs. Delarayne herself that a man should not marry until flappers had ceased to turn round to get a second look at him in the street?

  • My first idea was how to prevent Europe and Asia finding it out and frightening my family, at least until my eyes had had time to turn round.

  • Anybody might have passed down the main street and never noticed it, because its arched entry didn't give on the street, but on a bay or cul-de-sac just long enough for a hansom to drive into but not to turn round in.

  • He hesitated, pondering whether to follow the path on the other side of the road or to turn round, when his attention was arrested by a charming sight.

  • Let us turn round," Kurt said, in a low tone; "the Baron may else suppose that we wish to spy upon him.

  • He started up and closed the hangings instantly, hearing distinctly as he did so Kurt's words, "Let us turn round; the Baron may else suppose that we wish to spy upon him.

  • The verandah faces the east, so that when A wished to leave the nest, it had but to jump across it into the space beyond, and then wing its way ahead, while B had to turn round before it could fly off.

  • The nest chamber communicates with the exterior by a passage about three feet long, so narrow that the bird is unable to turn round in it.

  • Five days later the nest hole had attained such a size that the birds were able to turn round in it, and so now emerged head foremost.

  • Because I am not able to turn round,' said the horse.

  • Then they closed round the circle, and danced faster and faster: so fast at last that the tailor's head began to turn round, and they glared at him with such big ugly eyes, as though they would swallow him up alive.

  • Such a labourer would eat a poor farmer out of house and home before one could turn round.

  • I tried to turn round, and there was a most ferocious leopard growling at me.

  • This polar Bruin was evidently unaccustomed to the sight of masts, and, when approaching, occasionally hesitated, and seemed half inclined to turn round and be off.

  • A single bite from a jaguar, or the stroke of his paw, would fracture an ant-eater's skull before it had time to turn round; for the movements of this edentate quadruped are as sluggish as those of the toothed carnivorous tyrant are rapid.

  • And she had forborne to follow her instinct, because to turn round in the street would have been a crime in the colonel's eyes.

  • By the revolution of wheel 7, the wheel s will cause the pinion of the fixed stud p to turn round.

  • To turn round (an anchor) by the stock, with a motion like turning a gimlet.

  • To cause to turn round or revolve, as a wheel around an axle.

  • In the twinkling of an eye, before Javert had time to turn round, he was collared, thrown down, pinioned and searched.

  • Leblanc seized this moment, overturned the chair with his foot and the table with his fist, and with one bound, with prodigious agility, before Thenardier had time to turn round, he had reached the window.

  • Leblanc to turn round almost at the same moment as Marius.

  • I saw him roll over, turn round, fall back again beneath the horses' feet, then the coach gave two jolts, and behind it I saw something quivering in the dust on the road.

  • I turn round, certain that I shall not see him, that I shall never see him again; but for all that, he is behind me.

  • But it was not that that made me turn round sharply; it was the sound of the voice, for I thought I recognized it.

  • Happening to turn round, he caught Hill looking after him, and saw his face for the first time.

  • Hoar and the children had migrated to the kitchen at the back, a draughty place hardly large enough for the lot to turn round in.

  • And that's how I got the warning which made me turn round in my tracks.

  • There he was, and I hadn't thought of anything to say to him; so I didn't turn round.

  • She had taken him by surprise, but he resisted the impulse to turn round at once under the impression that she might read his trouble in his face.

  • Still she walked on, like one distraught, ready to turn round, her arms hanging wide and her lips tightly drawn.

  • Now, as the father was bestowing on his other daughter the dowry coveted by Andermatt, Gontran had either to renounce this union or turn round to the elder sister.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "turn round" 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:
    animal and vegetable life; grand scale; industry and; mix the whole well; name shall; that moment; turn again; turn aside; turn away; turn from; turn out; turn the; turn thee; turned abruptly; turned around; turned back; turned out; turning about; turning away; turning back; turning from; turning over; turning pale; turning point; turning them; turning towards