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Example sentences for "turned and"

  • The thought attacked my brain with horror, and I turned and fled in a sudden panic to the rear, calling to Harry and Desiree.

  • At first I thought it a delusion produced by my disordered brain, but when I saw Desiree's astonished gaze following mine, and heard Harry's cry of wonder as he turned and saw it also, I knew the thing was real.

  • We turned and saw a narrow lane lined on either side by our captors.

  • For a moment I stood on the upper step with the upper half of my body, swaying from side to side, extending beyond the top of the column; then I turned and began to descend with Desiree in my arms.

  • We turned and saw a great slab of stone slowly slide to one side in the floor, leaving an aperture some three feet square.

  • Simon cried out at the threat, so that I turned and looked at the lad.

  • One of them, however, a bolder fellow than the rest, turned and fired at me.

  • Then he turned and saw, and at the awful sight of this procession of the gods of his land, threw up his arms, and without a word fell senseless.

  • Then he turned and made a proposal to Mavovo, explaining that his stature was much better suited to the job.

  • As I expected, this treatment had the desired effect, for after we had passed each other he turned and said: "Do you not know me, Macumazahn?

  • That is for the smellers-out to decide," and without more words he turned and left me.

  • He turned and, looked about him till his eye fell upon a group of women, amongst whom sat Nandie, dressed like a common person.

  • Then, with a salute, he turned and departed, bidding no good-bye to his brother.

  • Then he turned and went, and Skallagrim went with him.

  • Then he turned and gave it to Unna his wife, but before she drank he kissed her on the lips.

  • He turned and took up his hat, and his hand shook as he did it.

  • He turned and looked at her with a sudden defiance in his eyes, as if daring her to doubt him.

  • And then he turned and went, and with him went the tall and sullen-looking bearers, and that was the last that we saw of the Amahagger.

  • And then, without waiting for an answer, he turned and walked to his litter, and in ten minutes from that time we were all well under way.

  • I turned and put my arm round him, and kissed him on the forehead.

  • Would you like this wire--" With a feeling that he was defrauding love, he turned and fled.

  • She let it go, and that she might not see him say good-night to the girl, turned and mounted to her room.

  • But every now and then he turned and stared at some inoffensive visitor who was taking interest in them, with such fierce and genuine contempt that Gyp took alarm; whereon he laughed.

  • In his hands he turned and turned a piece of china.

  • Nature had got him in its net, and like an unhappy fish he turned and swam at the meshes, here and there, found no hole, no breaking point.

  • This threw him into a panic, and he turned and ran up the creek-bed along the old, dim trail.

  • Then it turned and trotted up the trail in the direction of the camp it knew, where were the other food-providers and fire-providers.

  • I turned and looked at her where she stood by the rail.

  • So saying he turned and I watched him stride out upon that spit of sand hard by Bartlemy's tree and this great fat fellow trotting at his heels.

  • As for me, I turned and ran, making for a rocky ledge I knew, with Tressady panting behind me, his hook ringing on the rocks as he scrambled in pursuit.

  • Then suddenly he turned and looked at her gravely.

  • At the foot of the short flight he turned and looked up at the strong, peaceful form of his friend.

  • He turned and smiled at Joseph as if to make things pleasant all round.

  • Wildly I turned and clutched at the ground that had slipped from beneath my feet.

  • He stretched himself, lowered his head, and lapped water from the drinking-shell at his side, turned and looked at me, and then hobbled off toward the cliffs.

  • As I did so he turned and looked up into my face, his jaws parting and his red tongue lolling as you have seen your own dog's beneath a love pat.

  • He turned and looked at her, and, kneeling, smoothed away the hair from the quiet face.

  • At last Gaspard roused himself with a long sigh, turned and picked up the pipe, but, seeing the flask of rum, lifted it, and took one long swallow before he began to fill and light his pipe.

  • The senator (for such he was, although he did not represent Jethro's state) turned and stared, and then held out his hand with unmistakable warmth.

  • His hands dropped lifelessly from her shoulders, and he turned and went to the door, where he stood with his back to her, silhouetted against the eastern sky all pink from the reflection of sunset.

  • He turned and exchanged a glance with Dormer Colville, who stood at his side leaning on his gold-headed cane.

  • He turned and gave a gruff order to a man half hidden in the mist in the waist of the boat to try a heave of the lead.

  • He turned and glanced at Loo's face in the moonlight.

  • I saw one tree ignite like gun-cotton, and then my heart grew small, and I turned and fled.

  • I knew how he would feel for his old love, and I turned and said to Troubridge-- "Jim will be very sorry to hear of this.

  • At length he turned and spoke, but not to them, to the empty air.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "turned and" 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:
    black crape; chopped nuts; devout life; hereditary monarchy; metaphorical sense; other than; pale yellowish; slay them; turned about; turned again; turned and; turned around; turned away; turned from; turned himself; turned into; turned loose; turned out; turned round; turned suddenly; turned toward; turned under; turned upon; turned upside; vice president; will admit