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Example sentences for "turn their"

  • Captain Thompson, seeing that the guns of the ship were silent, and that all resistance had ceased, now ordered the sailors to turn their guns on the dhows and sink as many as possible.

  • If the French are victorious, they and the nizam will then turn their attention to you; and you cannot hope to escape with life, when your treason has brought such troubles upon them.

  • Many of them broke from their guns and fled to shelter, others endeavoured to turn their cannon to bear upon the magazine.

  • When shall we see them as eager to turn their time to good account?

  • What a pity is it, said he, that Christians are not so desirous to turn their time to good account as men of business are!

  • Mr. Worthy, who felt a kindness for him, which all his vanity could not cure, was always on the watch how to turn their talk on some useful point.

  • Here "all thine enemies" were to turn their backs and "all the people" to be "destroyed.

  • Flight commencing in this quarter, caused the whole Roman line to turn their backs.

  • The battle, however, was more violent than lasting; and the Roman cavalry being repulsed, turn their backs.

  • It is enabling the poor, harassed people of Santo Domingo once more to turn their attention to industry and to be free from the cure of interminable revolutionary disturbance.

  • The gentlemen of the House would, he hoped, turn their attention, for a few minutes, to the numerous memorials received from our merchants during the last session, praying compensation for those losses.

  • This led many laborious men to turn their attention to the subject.

  • It is strange to see now the new settlers in the new land tend to turn their faces, not towards the world before them, but towards the world they have left behind.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "turn their" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.


    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    appointed time; clear away; firm resolution; general secretary; good writing; little when; make much; point lace; throw myself; turn again; turn away; turn the; turned abruptly; turned around; turned aside; turned back; turned from; turned loose; turned pale; turned the; turned towards; turned unto; turning about; turning away; turning over; turning towards