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Sentences starting with turn

Turn it as you will it is simply the truth! [7]
Turn on the water! [5]
Turn thy face, turn thy face from the skies To the love, to the pain in my eyes. [11]
Turn your face to the young spring, not to the dead winter. [11]
Turn your head to the open air, for I go to light a cigarette, and if you breathe this way, there will be a grand explode. [11]
Turn now to the temperance revolution. [7]
Turn then to that horror-striking scene at St. Louis. [7]
Turn off the register-quick! [5]
Turn thy force loose like a tempest, and roll on thy army like a whirlwind, over this mountain of trouble and confusion. [5]
Turn round, don't look this way. [11]

Sentences ending with turn

It's just like you, thinking he's doing her a good turn. [9]
Odd things strike you at every turn. [4]
He had many worlds and he lived in each by turn. [4]
It was the work of a man with a dramatic nature and a mathematical turn. [11]
The cream from which heroes is made is very apt to turn. [9]
We don't know where to turn. [9]
I believe that we shall turn. [9]
Just then the watch, marching from the Marienthurn to the Frauenthor, gave her vagrant thoughts a new turn. [10]
Al'mah thought she was doing us both a good turn. [11]
And now she was aware that Susan's blue eyes were fixed upon her, and that they had a strange and penetrating quality she had never noticed before: a certain tenderness, an understanding that made Honora redden and turn. [9]

Short sentences using turn

Everything in its turn. [5]
Now it's your turn. [2]
He did not turn. [11]
History at every turn! [11]
How could I turn traitor? [9]
Stafford did not turn round. [11]
I reckoned they'd turn pale. [5]
Wait till our turn comes. [6]
At last my turn came. [5]
It's your turn to watch. [5]

Sentences containing turn two or more times

And then the wheel would turn and turn, and the man would be in the wheel. [11]
Turn, turn, turn, what a weary go it was. [4]
I was the warm; it was my turn to turn, and I turned. [5]
He saw his son turn and walk to the door, and turn again with his handle on the knob, and Hilary did not move. [9]
Now, the grapes, soaked in this liquid gold, called air, begin to turn, mindful of the injunction, "to turn or burn. [4]
Then I looked over my burnt dress and was horrified to see how large the holes were, and it struck me that I might turn it, because when you turn a thing the spots, you know, do not show. [10]
At each turn of the stream I expected to see the end, and at each turn I saw a long, narrow stretch of rocks and foaming water. [4]
By a mysterious law of our being, each of us has utter and indisputable command of our body a week at a time, turn and turn about. [5]
I turn sick in my stomich, and I turn round and see Norinne stan' hin the door, all white, and she make her hand go as that, like she push back that hot wind. [11]
He stretched out his hands, and sang in the vibrating monotone of his people: "Turn, O Sakkia, turn to the right, and turn to the left: Who will take care of me, if my father dies? [11]

More example sentences with the word turn in them

I said:-- "'Senator, you're not going to ask me to turn loose all those at once? [9]
You may take your turn with my shears and needle one day. [11]
Now it is your turn again: In what city of my home did you meet the signorina? [10]
Your Admiralty and your government first pardoned the man, and then gave him freedom on the island which you tried to prevent; and now they turn round and confine him to his acres. [11]
He said: "Gents, you'll have to turn out a spell. [5]
Ack, what are you, to turn your back on me? [11]
But, Bern, do you want me to turn into a rabbit? [13]
And even if you turn me out of the house--I will not help to drag us into deeper wretchedness; I will take no part in the performances. [10]
Didn't I tell you those criticisms would be the making of us, when they first began to turn you blue this morning, March? [8]
My love for you inspired me in all that I have done, and, now that I come to lay the result of my labors at your feet, you turn from me, and offer my reward to a stranger. [6]
But why do you do a thing like this when you must know I need every man here to help turn out these machines? [9]
If anything happens, you can turn it into a boardinghouse. [4]
Then, just as you begin to half hope he is going to discover the cause of it and launch hot bolts of wrath at the guilty manufacturers of it, you have to turn away disappointed. [5]
I called to you as you were leaving, but you didn't turn back. [11]
Arrived in New York, Ed found his way to Commodore Vanderbilt's business quarters, and was ushered into a large anteroom, where a score of people were patiently awaiting their turn for a two-minute interview with the millionaire in his private office. [5]
And yet, and yet!--If she had really had the power to bind calamity in the clouds, to turn the tide back into its channel, she would not have done so! [10]
How'll yer face yer mother if yer turn yer back on the inimy of yer counthry? [11]
The novelist who would turn loose upon society an insane murderess could not escape condemnation. [5]
He supposed they would turn aside. [5]
This presented (or would present when McDowell and Sumner should be gone) a great temptation to the enemy to turn back from the Rappahannock and sack Washington. [7]
His ledger, take-it-altogether, would not show a balance on the right side; but perhaps the losses on his books will turn out to be credits in a world where accounts are kept on a different basis. [5]
But how long would it take to turn that circle into a polygon, unless some mighty counteracting force should prevent it? [6]
If not, it would be the turn next of those whom she herself had pushed into the arms of the fell monster: First Heliodora, and then her mother! [10]
You turn and worship the image of Maha Kal, the Great Fate, and happiness in the life to come is secured. [5]
The afternoon had worn away into a beautiful evening, when they arrived at a point where the road made a sharp turn and struck across a common. [12]
He rose to withdraw; but she detained him, saying: "Now it is your turn, Captain. [10]
You can sit, with your knees drawn up to your chin and your arms clasped around them, but you are bound to turn over presently, because you are top-heavy in that position. [5]
As the troubles with the mother country thickened, she took to a foot-wheel, and often in the crisp autumn evenings I would hear the bumping of it as I walked to the house, and turn the knob to come upon her spinning by the twilight. [9]
Being deeply engaged with the details of the expedition to the Soudan, David had not gone to the Palace; and he was unaware of the turn which things had taken. [11]
To go now, with something accomplished, and turn my back forever on the world, with one last effort to do the impossible thing for some great cause, and fail and be lost forever--do you not understand? [11]
I plied Cockle with questions as to what they purposed doing with me, but he was wont to turn sulky, and would answer me not a word. [9]
And I recalled, with mingled bitterness and tenderness, the turn of her head, the down on her neck, the half-revealed curve of her arm.... [9]
You mustn't trifle with it, you know, or it may turn to pneumonia," she would go on, deriving much comfort from the utterance of that foreign word, incomprehensible to others as well as to herself. [2]
Beside herself now with horror and dread, she implored him to turn away; but he did not heed her, and went on unmoved into the midst of the stream. [10]
It was furnished with delightful old-fashioned things that seemed to express, at every turn, the aristocratic and uncompromising personality of the owner who had lived so long in their midst. [9]
How did the wish that you could see me dead turn into the fearful resolve to let yourself be killed in my stead? [10]
I used to wish sometimes that I could turn fast enough to make the stone fly into a dozen pieces. [4]
And whenever she winked it would turn aver. [5]
They say that Willy is in Heaven now, and that it's always summer there, and yet I'm sure he grieves when I lie down upon his garden bed, and he cannot turn to kiss me. [12]
I was very willing to see how this enterprise would turn out, so I dressed, and we started to his lodgings. [5]
Do what you will with me: sell me and my brother, put us to turn a mill--but I will not sing in the temple! [10]
Observe how we will turn this seeming disaster into an advertisement; an advertisement for our soap; and the biggest one, to draw, that was ever thought of; an advertisement that will transform that Mount Washington defeat into a Matterhorn victory. [5]
But, hereafter, I will turn me sadly away and say; "This does not answer--this isn't the style of king that I am acquainted with. [5]
If the reader will turn back to the end of the fourth number of these papers, he will find certain lines entitled, "Cacoethes Scribendi. [6]
Something's needed that will play our game and turn the tables on the reptile too. [11]
Then your turn will come too. [10]
It's only we who turn up the ground, where nothing grows and everything decays, who think of such things as these--who think of them properly, I mean. [12]
It was he who must snuff the candles, and put on a stick of wood, and toast the cheese, and turn the apples, and crack the nuts. [4]
In a little while, if they were not surprised, they would complete a movement, take a hill, turn the flank of the foe, and, if designed supports came up, have the Boers at a deadly disadvantage. [11]
It seemed worth while to try to turn it to some valuable account. [5]
It was worth while to learn what had induced her to turn back just before reaching the harbour. [10]
The cart in which the officer lay was turned into the Rostovs' yard, and dozens of carts with wounded men began at the invitation of the townsfolk to turn into the yards and to draw up at the entrances of the houses in Povarskaya Street. [2]
The glance by which she measured him in turn momentarily veiled the divine in the ordinary. [13]
A dozen schemes which he had in hand, any one of which might turn up a fortune, all languished, and each needed just a little more, money to save that which had been invested. [5]
But she sat where she was until the maid came in to pull the curtains and turn on the lights, reminding her that guests were expected. [9]
By and by, whenever poor Yates saw him coming, he would turn and fly, and drag his company with him, if he had company; but it was of no use; his debtor would run him down and corner him. [5]
One never knew when she would turn her own or her interlocutor's gravity into mirth. [11]
Then, one morning when she was alone in the office with young Caldwell, who was absorbed in some reports, Ditmar entered unexpectedly and looked her full in the eyes, surprising her into answering his glance before she could turn away, hating herself and hating him. [9]
One can laugh when misery and danger are over, and it would be easy to turn this matter into ridicule, but from that hour to this the wooden cross which turned the flood of my feelings then into a saving channel has never left me. [11]
When I have what is necessary, I shall turn my back on the orchestra and the court of Brussels that very day, dear as music is to me, and sure as I am that I shall never again find a leader like our Gombert. [10]
Do you know what brought tears to the eyes of the guards?--What made the captain and the sailors turn their heads away from us, lest we should see that their faces were wet? [11]
I don't care what act you may turn your hand to, I can straightway whisper a word in your ear and make you think you have committed a dreadful meanness. [5]
His only companions were the Indians, who in summer-time came and went, getting stores of him, which he in turn got from a post of the Hudson's Bay Company, seventy miles up the coast. [11]
I remember you were such an impatient blasphemer, however musically, against the adamantine identities, in your youth, that you should take your turn of resignation now, and be a preacher of peace. [6]
As the words were spoken a sigh broke from her, and there came to Philip's mind that distant day in the council chamber at Bercy when for one moment he was upon his trial; but he did not turn and look at her now. [11]
These verbal battles were one of the greatest pleasures of the Alexandrians, and they greeted every clever turn of speech with shouts of applause, every word which displeased them with groans, hisses, and cat-calls. [10]
His best days were done, the spring of his life was gone, and the step was that of a man who had little more of activity and force with which to turn the halting wheels of life. [11]
Nay, he presently went to such lengths that our Franconian and Nuremberg nobles could but turn away their faces, inasmuch as he began so wild and unseemly a dance as was overmuch even for me, despite my youth and sheer delight in the quick measure. [10]
Hast thou done well, oh, Effendina, to turn from thine own people? [11]
To-morrow morning, dear, we'll turn our faces from this scene of sorrow, and be as free and happy as the birds. [12]
I know you well enough to be sure that this will not turn your head, but it imposes duties on you, and you must be a man. [2]
But there are weighty matters 'twixt France and England, and De la Foret may turn the scale one way or another. [11]
If by accident we wake at two in the morning a couple of nights in succession, we have need to be uneasy, for another repetition can turn the accident into a habit; and a month's dallying with whiskey --but we all know these commonplace facts. [5]
So,' he says, 'we tie our faces up with kerchiefs and turn our heads away as we drag them off: we can hardly do it. [2]
And now--another honor we can duly appreciate!--he sends his praetorians to turn this house of mourning into a tavern, a wine-shop, where they call creatures in from the street to dance and sing. [10]
You've looked his way; he did you a good turn at the Carillon Rapids, and you'd do one for him if you could. [11]
That is the way with us; we may go on half of our life not knowing such a thing is in us, when in reality it was there all the time, and all we needed was something to turn up that would call for it. [5]
There wasn't any way to collect that ten cents, and he reckon'd the gov'ment would hold him responsible for it and maybe turn him out besides, when they found he hadn't collected it. [5]
We got under way about the turn of noon, and pulled out for the summit again, with a fresh and vigorous step. [5]
The great hills waved into each other like a vast violet sea, and, in turn, the tiny earth-waves on each separate hill swelled into the larger harmony. [11]
She poured some water on the wheel and began to turn it, nodding at the now impassive Indian to begin. [11]
That Commander's remark was, that the Boers "would turn tail at the first beat of the big drum. [5]
MacGregor said it was very likely; but we'd have to be fattened first, and that would give us time to turn round. [11]
Her first thought was to turn and flee, not because she was frightened of what he would do, but because she did not wish to hear what he would say. [11]
But, if it was to be, perhaps he could do a good turn to Macnamara by warning him, by planting deep in the Khalifa's mind the Irishman's simple-minded trustworthiness. [11]
And hereafter it was to be slow, one turn at a time of the screws, squeezing by infinitesimal degrees the life out of her soul. [9]
He knows he was then expecting from day to day to turn Republican, and place himself at the head of our organization. [7]
Each said it was the other's fault, and each in turn denied it. [5]
The second order was that Poniatowski, moving to the village through the wood, should turn the Russian left flank. [2]
This surprising thing was tested and enjoyed by each scholar in turn, and great was the gladness and astonishment of all. [5]
Last spring she was sewing here with a song on her lips, watching for him to turn the corner as he came back to dinner. [9]
Not until she was on the bottom step did the odour of cigarettes reach her and turn her faint; and she clutched suddenly at the banisters. [9]
Jean Jacques, however, was not likely to see that look; since Sebastian Dolores--that was his name--had observed from the first how the master-miller was impressed by his daughter, and he was set to turn it to account. [11]
And so it was his turn to be dissatisfied with life. [5]
The old man was grieved to turn the weapons they had seized in their sacred ardor, against the seceders from their own cause; but it had to be. [10]
A new turn was given to events, however. [11]
Some insupportable coxcomb was boasting a marvellous run with the hounds nigh across Hertfordshire, and Miss Manners brought him up with a round turn and a half hitch by relating one of your exploits, Richard Carvel. [9]
Whenever the talk was at all general, it was his delight to turn one against the other. [11]
He congratulated us warmly, and it was my turn to offer him a cigarette. [9]
If a man wants to succeed, he must turn into a rascal. [9]

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