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Example sentences for "she turned"

  • She turned on me quickly with a flash of her old fire.

  • Toward the end of the dinner Le Mire suddenly became silent and remained for some minutes lost in thought; then, suddenly, she turned to the bundle of gold lace at her side with a question: "Where is Guayaquil?

  • She turned to us: "Well, I'd rather eat that than those other nasty things.

  • She turned away, hobbled, clacking, a few paces, and stood again.

  • With a smile she left me at the door of my room, but as she turned I read anxiety on her beautiful face.

  • She turned to me quickly, saying with one of her sweetest smiles, "Can you climb?

  • She turned away, took a few steps with the gait of a Hecate, fell, covered afresh with her spots, and fled at a long, stretching gallop.

  • With an expression of pain, mortification, and anger unutterable, she turned from me and stood silent.

  • As the door closed he yawned voluptuously, chest out, shoulders wriggling, and turned cynically to his wife.

  • You can't hate them properly, and yet their standardized minds are the enemy.

  • Well, you know what it means to me, Georgie.

  • She turned into a side street of shabby houses, with rows of ash-barrels behind bent area railings.

  • She turned to her kindred soul and looked at him gently, almost wistfully.

  • She turned abruptly to her kindred soul, who stood listening with a mien of wonder and dismay.

  • She turned instinctively to look out of the window, which was uncurtained, but Mary immediately recalled her.

  • The message from her father surprised Katharine, and the others caught from her look, as she turned to go, a vague sense of apprehension.

  • She turned to Denham for confirmation, and he corroborated her.

  • She rose as she spoke, and as she turned to leave the room, she laid her hand, with a curiously caressing gesture, upon Rodney's shoulder.

  • There was a loose covering of black lace thrown over her head, but once, as she turned, he could see that her hair was red.

  • It seemed to her that the smile with which, as she turned, she was able to meet her uncle's look, was a product of true heroism.

  • With inspiration, he drew forth the half-crown which he had been fingering in his pocket, and gave it to the girl as she turned.

  • She turned a coat belonging to his architect that hung with some of his clothing in Peter Morrison's garage.

  • Whistle when you are ready, Donald," called Linda as she turned away.

  • Her lips were closed so tightly they wrinkled curiously as she turned back to the fireplace.

  • She turned in her hands and leafed through the pages of a most attractive magazine, Everybody's Home.

  • She turned an exultant flashing face to Donald Whiting.

  • She turned, half hurriedly, as though to escape his gaze.

  • She turned to O'Keefe, nor by slightest look or gesture betrayed she knew others were there than he.

  • He wheeled behind her as she turned, facing the priestess, club upraised, fangs glistening.

  • She turned to the men in green, who were laughing softly among themselves.

  • She turned away as a great sound began to swim and tremble in the air; the huge empty space of the church filled with it, and the two people listening filled with it; the universe seemed to fill and thrill with it.

  • She turned away, going back to the window to draw down the shade.

  • She turned away, went to the bare little black mantel, and stood leaning upon it.

  • She turned, bright and rosy, to her step-mother.

  • She turned slowly to leave the summer-house.

  • She turned, with impressive gravity, to the page.

  • Mrs. Vanborough sighed as she turned to the door.

  • She turned to Geoffrey, and pointed to the back of the summer-house.

  • She turned on me, as of course I knew she would.

  • She turned on me in the most terrible way, and asked me how I dared to come between husband and wife, because divorce or no divorce, whom God hath joined together, and so on.

  • She did not even look at us for a minute; then she merely glanced up as she turned a page.

  • Yes," replied Florence, quickly; and as she turned at the door she flashed at Madeline a woman's meaning glance.

  • When, presently, she turned again to watch Florence, uncertainty ceased in her mind.

  • She turned aside, but the thundering grew nearer.

  • She turned to see Helen sliding down a bank with a perplexed and troubled cowboy.

  • As she turned at the edge of the clearing and looked back up the path over the pine-bushes she saw him step out of the door with his gun in one hand and his axe in the other.

  • She turned to Floyd, and said, in an earnest undertone, "I am very sorry; but I had an engagement.

  • The lambent glow of her inscrutable eye as she turned toward me might have been flattering but for my uneasiness in regard to Enriquez.

  • I see nothing extraordinary in his devotion to an aged relative," returned Miss Mannersley quietly as she turned away, "except that it justifies my respect for his character.

  • She turned to him graciously: "Flora is already waiting for you in the drawing-room.

  • She turned to the "odious person" with the same determination.

  • She turned at once and we made a few paces; not too far to take us out of sight of the hotel door, but very nearly.

  • Having mastered both her fright and her bitterness, she turned round, sat down and allowed her astonishment to be seen.

  • And as she turned away, they sparkled through the rich dark waves of hair.

  • And when we came to hog-pound, she turned upon me suddenly, with the lanthorn she was bearing, and saw that I had the bock by one hand very easily.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    she added; she cried; she got; she had never before; she hadn; she interrupted; she laughed; she listened; she lived; she looked about her; she made; she might; she ought; she read; she turned; she walked; she wished; she would have been; sheep and; sheep ranch; sheet metal; shell fish; shew their; shew them; single season; specific gravity