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Example sentences for "turned out"

  • As it turned out, he was right: the ministry was ousted, but not so soon as he expected, for the catastrophe did not arrive until about two years later.

  • As it turned out, there was little need of this, since the course both of the Emperor and his government was otherwise amply vindicated.

  • It turned out to be a correspondence which had taken place, just before the conference, between the Queen of the Netherlands and the Pope.

  • The camping, however, turned out to be a very simple process, and consisted, in fact, in sitting down on the ground round a scanty fire made of dry reeds and some wood that had been brought with us.

  • It turned out to be a difficult matter to elect them, but it was accomplished at last.

  • But it turned out that he had never read aloud to people, and was too shy to venture the attempt now.

  • By and by you will just naturally KNOW one from the other, but you never will be able to explain why or how you know them apart' It turned out to be true.

  • Such an occupation would not attract any attention, and in the end it turned out a perfect success, as my friends can testify.

  • Mascarin, who still remained in the centre of the room, inwardly wondered if after all he was to be turned out of the house.

  • The lady flies into a rage, denies all knowledge of the book, and threatens to have me turned out.

  • A trifling example of his faith in authority is that he took his "inch in terms of millimeters" from an old book, in which it turned out to be inaccurately given.

  • The meeting was less interesting than that between a horse, turned out into a field, when he joins an old companion.

  • At length we reached that which from a distance appeared like a carpet of fine green turf, but which, to our vexation, turned out to be a compact mass of little beech-trees about four or five feet high.

  • It turned out to be Puma; the meat is very white and remarkably like veal in taste.

  • I kept trying to find that Harlamov's house, and afterwards it turned out that it was not Harlamov's, but Buch's.

  • On the day of my husband's funeral I am turned out of my lodging!

  • But to get rid of it, turned out to be a very difficult task.

  • I was told that you got her turned out of these lodgings.

  • It turned out that he was one of Chief Burke's minions, and Gillis was presently indicted on a charge of assault with intent to kill.

  • But this feature proved a disappointment; for when the day came and he was triumphantly brought in he turned out to be a Hessian, and was allowed to walk home.

  • It turned out an important literary year after all.

  • All three, it turned out, had made the same plans, being of similar disposition and temperament.

  • And he turned out of his way so as not to pass her and meet her glance.

  • Turned out of our studies, we are, just as if we were no better than little Manders minor.

  • Then we shall be turned out of the study again," said Beetle, who loved his flesh-pots.

  • Turned out for a week," said Aladdin, holding the study door on the crack.

  • The King owned that things had turned out ill.

  • The most factious of his opponents he turned out of their offices.

  • Early in April, Pitt and all his friends were turned out, and Newcastle was summoned to St. James's.

  • A man must hate kings very bitterly, before he can think it desirable that the representatives of the people should be turned out of doors by dragoons, in order to get at a king's head.

  • The two physicians, for a wonder, turned out to be unanimous, or rather, though of different minds, they concurred in action.

  • But I turned out to be--not good enough for it.

  • From the door she watched him bridle and saddle his horse, and having mounted and waved an adieu to her as she stood candle in hand, he turned out of the yard and rode away.

  • But after Waterloo and the fall of Napoleon there arrived at Sidlinch one day an English sergeant-major covered with stripes and, as it turned out, rich in glory.

  • Now, of course I ought have gone, as it turned out, but that I did not think of then.

  • It turned out to be the taciturn sentinel, Daniel, who asked us mildly whether we had heard a "raposa" pass our way.

  • It turned out to be a runaway pet bird; no one, however, came to own it, although I kept it in my house for several months.

  • I arrived at Santarem on my second journey into the interior, in November, 1851, and made it my headquarters for a period, as it turned out, of three years and a half.

  • Senor John contrived to get possession of the supposed worm after the trick was performed in our presence, and it turned out to be a long white airroot of some plant.

  • The landlord, though a gentleman of a haughty spirit who had just driven a pair of thorough-bred horses into town, turned out to show him up-stairs.

  • Lion and I being determined not to waste anything of our weekly visit, turned out early, and came over from Kingston, my present headquarters, where I am making a sketch or two.

  • Heartily glad to see the morning, though little rested by the night, he turned out as soon as he could distinguish objects about him, and paced the yard for two heavy hours before the gate was opened.

  • You'll have the broker in, and be turned out; that's what'll happen to you.

  • It turned out to be Boleskey, who, on a gaunt white horse, looked like some winged creature.

  • This was a funny "small" business, however it turned out; still it was in a proper church and would be in the proper papers to-morrow morning.

  • It WAS slavery; so long as they could be turned out of their homes at will in this fashion.

  • But as Shelton had predicted, so it turned out, amidst great applause.

  • And with a grimace, he turned out of Piccadilly, past St. James's Church, making for Bury Street.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "turned out" 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:
    for one; like everything; little basket; much misery; private practice; roused himself; she put; tail deer; think how; turned abruptly; turned again; turned aside; turned away; turned down; turned from; turned himself; turned his; turned into; turned loose; turned suddenly; turned the; turned toward; turned towards; turned under; turned unto; turned upon