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Example sentences for "turn about"

  • To turn about, here used as the name of a place, is evidently intended figuratively to stand for mental indecision.

  • Now the messengers saw that their business was a failure; and Thorgaut proposed that they should turn about, and go eastward again.

  • Turn about's fair play, I'm going to stay in base and keep Rufe company.

  • So the two, carrying the little rescued mulatto, turn about, hurried back toward home.

  • It was a matter of course that my friends would keep someone on watch up there; and it would be Ray and Robert, turn about; for they two, only, knew the code sufficiently well to take my signals.

  • The blacks, two and two, turn about, stood guard and slept.

  • That night and the next I called upon Don Pedro to watch, turn about, with myself.

  • By that I knew Alisanda had entered the sala, and I could not resist the impulse to turn about.

  • A solid of revolution is supposed to be free to turn about a fixed point O on its axis of symmetry, its mass-centre G being in this axis at a distance h from O.

  • OC of a ring which is itself free to turn about a diametral axis OX at right angles to the former; this axis is carried by a second ring which is free to turn about a fixed diameter OZ, which is at right angles to OX.

  • We note further that if a body be free to turn about a fixed point O, there are three mutually perpendicular lines through this point about which it can rotate steadily, without further constraint.

  • I turn about, I roll about, having fed on Ivashko's flesh.

  • But Ivashko called out to her from the top of the oak: "Turn about, roll about, having fed on Alenka's flesh!

  • Again the witch began: "I turn about, I roll about, having fed on Ivashko's flesh!

  • I turn about, I roll about, having fed on Ivashko's flesh," cried the witch.

  • In general, to turn about; to twist; -- often used reflexively and followed by round.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    apple blossom; ever being; finding the; other things being equal; pretty lass; through fear; turn again; turn back; turn their; turned around; turned from; turned his; turned loose; turned out; turned pale; turned the; turned toward; turned towards; turned unto; turning around; turning movement; turning point; turning quickly; turning toward; turning towards; until death