Use turned in a sentence
Sentences starting with turned
- Turned homeward, she walked for about a quarter of a mile, retreading the path by which she had come. [11]
Sentences ending with turned
- At Mrs. Holt's words she turned. [9]
- They whisper flattering words in my ear; they curse me when my back is turned. [10]
- After all, it was rather absurd to propose making a purely personal question the pivot on which his relations with 'Every Other Week' turned. [8]
- The mourning banner was already waving on the roof of the Town Hall, towards which he turned. [10]
- I was the warm; it was my turn to turn, and I turned. [5]
- Then Mr. Judson turned. [9]
- At length Austen turned. [9]
- At last he turned. [9]
- At length he turned. [11]
- At last he turned. [11]
Short sentences using turned
- It has turned your head. [13]
- His face turned white. [11]
- Jethro turned to Wetherell. [9]
- Has Dr. Jonathan turned up? [9]
- Margaret was just turned twenty. [4]
- Presently his cheeks turned pale. [11]
- And so it turned out. [4]
- But always she turned back. [9]
- The witnesses discreetly turned back. [4]
- But presently she turned back. [11]
Sentences containing turned two or more times
- There was no wind, apparently no breath of air, yet the leaves of the trees moved, the weather-vanes turned slightly, the animals in the byres roused themselves, and slumbering folk opening their eyes, turned over in their beds, and dropped into a troubled doze again. [11]
- The young artist turned pale and said with bowed head, and in low voice as he turned to go: "Right is always on the side of the strongest. [10]
- The conductor turned towards Philip, and coolly and deliberately surveyed him from head to foot, with contempt in every line of his face, turned his back upon him without a word, and said to the lady, "Come, I've got no time to talk. [5]
- The quicksilver turned to vapor, escaped through the pipe into the pail, and the water turned it into good wholesome quicksilver again. [5]
- The Cure turned to the altar and raised the bag towards it in ascription and thanksgiving, then he turned to Parpon again, but the dwarf was trotting away down the aisle and from the church. [11]
- They turned aside to skirt this wall, and gradually ascended until their way was barred by a "maze of gigantic snow crevices,"--so they turned aside again, and "began a long climb of sufficient steepness to make a zigzag course necessary. [5]
- Then he turned to go, politely bowing to me, but turned again and said, "I would not, were I you, trouble to plan escape these months yet. [11]
- She ran across the street, turned down a side street to the left, and, passing three houses, turned into a yard on the right. [2]
- But I know the rock from which it is best seen, and could fancy Margaret sitting there, with her face turned towards it and her hands folded in her lap, and Henderson sitting, half turned away from it, looking in her face. [4]
- Everything is with the returned prodigal--the more so if he be of the notorious Vaufontaines, who were ever saints turned sinners, or sinners turned saints. [11]
More example sentences with the word turned in them
- Himself in early youth had felt the austerity of a Cavalier father turned a Puritan on a sudden, and he wished no such experience for his daughter. [11]
- At last the youth encased his telescope, and turned to descend the hill to the town. [11]
- Then the seven young men turned them away from their homes, and the strangers shut the doors upon them. [5]
- He was a young lawyer turned actor, and he had lived in Montreal before he went on the stage. [11]
- He will tell you to this day how Mr. Catherwood's carriage was pocketed by drays and bales, and how Mrs. James's horses were seized by the bridles and turned back. [9]
- I once showed you on a fragmentary papyrus that belonged to my foster father, Horus Apollo, a heathen demon represented as going forwards, while his head was turned on his neck so that the face and eyes looked behind him. [10]
- When I postponed you lately, I did it because I thought I should be cramped for money until January, but that has turned out to be an error, so I hasten to cut short the postponement. [5]
- I imagine what you have gone through," and she sympathetically turned up her eyes. [2]
- Only I thought you had struck out a new idea, and invented a scheme that was going to revolutionize the timeworn and ineffectual methods of the--" He stopped, and turned to Blake, who was happy now that another had taken his place on the gridiron. [5]
- Yes, sah; an' you can jes' call for anything you want, and dish yer whole railroad'll be turned wrong end up an' inside out for to get it for you. [5]
- The poor bird yonder is as well qualified to encounter it, and be turned adrift upon its mercies--Hark! [12]
- They were hostile; yet when the favourite intimated that he, too, ought to be given up to justice, she showed so much hesitation, that Alexas stopped abruptly and turned the conversation upon Barine. [10]
- She turned away, yet looked back once more--she felt tragedy around her. [11]
- The issue may yet have been undecided when he turned round to Jethro with a sneer which he could not resist. [9]
- He turned up yesterday morning on Dicky Farnham's yacht, in the midst of all that storm. [9]
- But day before yesterday I concluded to go out of the Galaxy on the strength of it, so I have turned it into the last Memoranda I shall ever write, and published it as a "specimen chapter" of my forthcoming book. [5]
- She did not write a mournful poem; indeed, she was a silent person, and perhaps hardly said a word about it; but she quietly turned of a deep orange color with jaundice. [6]
- But when the wrapper was taken off the clay figures, he uttered a low snarl, and his flushed face turned pale. [10]
- If they have wounds, we will make them heal; if their heads are turned, we will screw them the right way round; if their souls are dark, we will light up a flame in them. [10]
- One of the wounded, an old soldier with a bandaged arm who was following the cart on foot, caught hold of it with his sound hand and turned to look at Pierre. [2]
- The old man would not look into the empty room where he had last seen his son alive; he turned his face away and hurried by the door. [8]
- But now she would not go with him, and turned towards the village. [11]
- The poorest even would have glass, but home-made--a foolish expense, for the glass soon went to bits, and the pieces turned to no profit. [4]
- He swayed and would have fallen, but Madelinette caught him, helped him to the sofa, and, forcing him gently down on his side, adjusted a pillow for him, and turned to the wounded man again. [11]
- I believe there would be physical resistance to it which could neither be turned aside by argument nor driven away by force. [7]
- He was a worthy, excellent man before the craze for liberty turned people's heads. [10]
- But this is worse than ever, and she will lie for hours with her face turned to the wall, and not even Antoinette can arouse her. [9]
- She did her work quickly and with decision and despatch, and soon turned the panic flight into a quite steady-going march. [5]
- She did her work on narrow slips of paper, and we pocketed them as fast as she turned them out, to show as curiosities. [5]
- The tyrant who wore this gaudy cloak was, no doubt, devoid alike of truth and conscience; but, as to his being a philosopher, who knew the worthlessness of earthly things and turned his back upon the world, those who could might believe it! [10]
- Take back your words, mother, take back your words, or--" Katuti turned paler and paler, and said soothingly: "The words may sound hard, but he has broken faith with you, and openly dishonored you. [10]
- Then, without more words, he turned and left the shed and the house. [11]
- After saying those words, Clement had turned very courteously to him, and they had spoken with each other. [6]
- When the last word of the memoirs (I may call them so), addressed to Alixe, had been written, I turned my thoughts to other friends. [11]
- He heard the word but faintly, for her face was still turned away from him. [9]
- He smiled his wonted fraction by way of greeting, stopped to buy a newspaper, and finally leading me to his buggy, turned and drove out of town. [9]
- His remarkable talents won the love of the great Onuphis and he taught him all the Egyptian mysteries, which Pythagoras afterwards turned to account for the benefit of mankind. [10]
- Tom turned in without the added vexation of prayers, and Sid made mental note of the omission. [5]
- As the servant, without further words, turned and left her, she knocked, opened the door without awaiting a reply, and stepping into semidarkness, said softly: "Michel! [11]
- Kutuzov turned round without answering and his eye happened to fall upon Prince Andrew, who was beside him. [2]
- Bob got in without a word, seized the reins, the cutter flew down Brampton Street (observed by many of the residents thereof) and turned into the Coniston road. [9]
- Charley turned, and, without a word, followed Jo into the house. [11]
- Lady Belward turned without a word, and slowly passed from the room. [11]
- In anguish Jane Withersteen turned speechlessly to Lassiter, and, confirming her fears, she saw him gray-faced, aged all in a moment, stricken as if by a mortal blow. [13]
- She had noticed with what dissatisfaction he turned from the look she sometimes involuntarily fixed on him. [2]
- The latter turned with upraised beaker towards the Thuringian and, as the Junker who had relapsed into his reverie, did not notice the movement, irritably exclaimed: "Well, Herr Dornburg, you require a long time to pledge a man. [10]
- The White Guard, with their faces turned homeward, and the man they had sought for in their care, seemed to have acquired new strength. [11]
- Trafford was alone with the woman through whom his life had been turned awry. [11]
- He did this with the utmost consideration, fearing the effect of this agitating news upon his wife; but Barbara only turned pale, and then, with tears glittering in her eyes, said softly, "He, too, was only a mortal man. [10]
- They turned away, with the tears running down their faces. [5]
- She turned quickly, with the pageant of her dreams still wavering in her face; smiled at him distantly, looked towards the window again in a troubled way, then stepped softly and swiftly to the door, and passed out. [11]
- He shook hands with the man, then turned to her again. [11]
- He again turned with tender solicitude to the sufferer, but instantly started to his feet, for the gates were flung wide open and the light of torches and lanterns streamed into the court. [10]
- The city reeked with smoke and acrid, stale gas, the electric lights were turned on to dispel the November gloom. [9]
- Pierre turned away with repugnance, and closing his eyes quickly fell back on the carriage seat. [2]
- Then he turned with pale face and gaunt look to Michael Clones. [11]
- Book-agents visit it with other commercial travelers, but the flood of knowledge, which is said to be the beginning of sorrow, is hardly turned in that direction yet. [4]
- They turned, as with one consent, down the path toward the distant water. [9]
- His eyes dilating with hunger, he watched her preparations for his supper; and when at last--and she had been but a moment--it was placed before him, his head swam, and he turned faint with the stress of his longing. [11]
- Exactly opposite Weyrother, with his glistening wide-open eyes fixed upon him and his mustache twisted upwards, sat the ruddy Miloradovich in a military pose, his elbows turned outwards, his hands on his knees, and his shoulders raised. [2]
- They kept up with him, in the fascination of the sight, to the next corner, where he turned down the side street still searching the gutter. [8]
- The crowd turned with half-apprehensive laughter to the trees. [11]
- Princess Mary turned with absent-minded questioning look to Pierre, who hat in hand and with a smile on his face was the last of the guests to approach her after the old prince had gone out and they were left alone in the drawing room. [2]
- She turned about with a startled or wondering look in her face and said, "What do you mean by that? [5]
- But I bowed with a sort of awed submission, and he turned and left the room. [11]
- The Emperor turned with a smile to one of his followers and made a remark to him, pointing to the gallant Apsherons. [2]
- She turned away with a shudder, and desired the bearers to go on. [10]
- Guida turned round with a sharp cry. [11]
- Ruth advanced, and with a not very steady hand lifted the white covering from the upper part of the figure and turned it down. [5]
- Presently he turned with a little ironical laugh and waved his hand at Gering; and laugh and gesture rankled in Gering for many a day. [11]
- He turned away with a grimace as if to say that everything Dolokhov had said to him and everything he could say had long been known to him, that he was weary of it and it was not at all what he wanted. [2]
- His Majesty will--" With a gesture of despair Enderby turned and entered the house, and passed into the library, where he found his daughter. [11]
- He turned away with a feeling of relief, however, for this gossip with the Huguenot maid would no doubt interest her, give new direction to her warm sympathies, which if roused in one thing were ever more easily roused in others. [11]
- She did not wish to look, but that which had turned on the light and bade her was stronger than she. [9]
- The amount of wine he had drunk to-day would generally have had no more effect upon him than water, and yet he had felt now and then as if he were drunken, and the whole festal hall turned round with him. [10]
- But He has willed that His rich shall help His poor, and you have turned away from me, your brother, in my need, and He will remember this, and you will lose by it. [5]
- But the corporation will suffer much more if a delayed justice is turned into vengeance. [9]
- It was Antoinette whose intuition divined this ere he had turned away. [9]
- The old magnates, whom Pierre knew, sat and turned to look first at one and then at another, and their faces for the most part only expressed the fact that they found it very hot. [2]
- A few priests whom he passed turned their backs upon him, others looked down at their dinners, eating noisily, and making as if they did not see him. [10]
- Pierre turned his whole body, making the sofa creak. [2]
- It was Hannah who, as I opened the kitchen door, turned at the sound, and set down the saucepan she was scouring. [9]
- It was she who turned away. [9]
- It is Eucken who says that the individual, once released from external authority, can never be turned back to it. [9]
- Their older friends, who had turned their backs on the couple and were talking busily by a window, paid no heed to them, and the blissful conviction of being loved as ardently as she loved flooded her whole being. [10]
- Presently, seeing the whiteness of his face but not the look in his eyes, she turned to the table, and pouring out a glass of water from a pitcher there, held it to his lips. [11]
- La Tremouille turned white with anger, but he pulled himself firmly together and held his peace. [5]
- The wind had whistled for a time, but it turned out to be only a squall. [9]
- After a moment's whisperings, they all three turned their faces again towards Tralee. [11]
- Like his horse, which turned its head and laid its ears back, he shrank from the driving rain and gazed anxiously before him. [2]
- 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]
- With a calmness which seemed to the servant incomprehensible, though it filled him with delight, he turned to the monk, saying earnestly and simply: "Appearances may be against me, Pater Benedictus. [10]
- A note to which her soul responded with anguish when she turned to him with the natural cry of woman. [9]
- The manner in which he said it suddenly turned me cold. [9]
- The theft raid which he had made upon the village turned out better than he had ventured to hope. [5]
- The caravansary into which Haschim and his following now turned off stood on a plot of rising ground surrounded by palm-trees. [10]
- After these reflections, which again reminded him of the second appointment and of Ledscha, the sculptor turned away from his work and went to the window to look across at Pelican Island, where she must not await him in vain. [10]
- She turned to where Shon sat. [11]
- I doubt if, when you lay in your mother's arms, you turned to her with love. [11]
- Day before yesterday, when we went about to learn how large a stock of provisions every house contains, people treated me and the others very rudely, many even turned us out of doors. [10]
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