7 sentences with 'turns'
Example sentences and phrases with the word turns and other words derived from it.
• « She enjoys acting and singing, but often turns down work that would take her away from her family. »
• « -I'm going to see Mr. Fitweiler right away! -If he turns you in to the police, he'll get what he deserves! »
• « With a few circular movements of her right hand, she turns the piece of dough into a ball, which she places in a drawer to turn into a pizza within an hour. »
• « Various conspiracy theories surrounded him, especially those that claimed he was a secret Catholic; it turns out that he had drawn up a secret agreement with Louis XIV to re-Catholicise England if he could, and proclaimed his Catholicism on his deathbed. »
• « Similarly, many thinkers were intensely interested in the works of an ancient (and, it turns out, fictional) philosopher and magician named Hermes Trismegistus, Hermes the "Thrice Blessed", who had supposedly discovered a series of magical formulas that explained the universe. There was a great crossover between what we might think of as magic and spirituality on the one hand and "real" science on the other. »
• « The point here is that, ultimately, even if it turns out that magic does not exist, the interest in discovery sparked by the idea of probing the secrets of the universe still led to genuine scientific discovery. »
• « We stood there for hours - or so it seemed to me - grandfather and I, silent, arms linked, taking turns with the hose and watching the ferns bend under the spray of water. »