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Example sentences for "turned toward"

  • He was silent for a moment, turned toward her as though to speak, but evidently reconsidered the impulse.

  • Home," she said, partly to herself; and he turned toward her in quick gratitude.

  • He turned toward her; their glances met level and hard: "Let matters alone," he said.

  • I set my teeth for a moment; and I turned toward her, my cigarette case in my hand.

  • When at last Lord Porthoning paused for breath, I turned toward my father-in-law.

  • I turned toward my prospective father-in-law.

  • He turned toward me, a sudden curiosity upon his face as he saw that I was a stranger on the boat, though not a stranger to himself.

  • For my own part, I turned toward my cabin door.

  • She stood looking on out over the water for a time, but, at length, turned toward me, just a finger up as to stifle a yawn.

  • He turned toward Hardenberg, and saw that heart-felt joy was beaming from his face.

  • When he was about to vault into the saddle, he turned toward one of his adjutants.

  • But soon overcoming his sadness, he turned toward Gneisenau.

  • There was a boyish gleam of triumph in his smile as he turned toward her.

  • He turned toward Grimsby, who was well wearied with the trying ordeal, and evidencing a growing nervousness about his own escape.

  • He nodded, understandingly, to the Coroner, as he turned toward Shirley.

  • When his eye rested upon Genevieve and the child, it lit up with a gleam of pleasure; but when he turned toward us, he again became stupid and hesitating.

  • And as he put his arm around her he turned toward a massive man whose broad, craggy face began to ripple and wrinkle.

  • And Stewart, after taking a parcel of papers from a saddle-bag, turned toward her.

  • He heaved up his big frame as if trying to cast off a giant's burden, and then slowly he turned toward her.

  • In that one instant he had seen a white, childish face, framed in a mass of floating golden hair, turned toward him.

  • He turned toward it now with feverish impatience, poured out a full glass with his nervous fingers, and drained it at a single draught.

  • Then he turned toward them, his voice hoarse with excitement.

  • They paid their checks and Tim turned toward the News, but Dan stopped him.

  • Then, to my amazement, she stopped, as though arrested by a sudden thought, turned toward me again, and raised her eyes deliberately to mine.

  • Instead he read the letter through again, then he turned toward me.

  • He shouted, but the panienka said nothing; but when he turned toward her, she kneeled but did not utter one word.

  • Here he turned toward Zbyszko: "The beautiful Ryngalla's own sister; do you understand?

  • Then he turned toward Zbyszko: "And in the first place Mazowsze will perish.

  • He turned toward her, resting his hand upon the rail.

  • Then, as she seemed preparing for another cry, he turned toward her.

  • He turned toward Rusty, who was making a mental comparison of the room with the steamboat cabins back on the Ohio River.

  • Was this figure, when you saw it, turned toward you or away?

  • With one of his rapid changes, wonderful and inexplicable to me at the moment, he turned toward me with a bow, saying courteously enough: "We will excuse the young lady.

  • I do not think he had observed my action, for it was very dark where I lay and his back had been turned toward me.

  • Newmarch gave a peculiar chuckle as he turned toward me when the party had disappeared.

  • Over a thousand obstructions we crawled like three rock snakes, till finally the boy halted and turned toward me.

  • Holman, who had been staring in silence at the fire for some twenty minutes, turned toward me after the Professor had retired.

  • It is this dark, cold side that is turned toward us when Mercury is nearest to us.

  • Being all in the same plane, they form a flat, broad, thin ring, so thin that when the edge of the ring is turned toward us we cannot see them at all.

  • As it is, his dark side is turned toward us when he is nearest, and when his full face is illuminated he is on the far side of the sun.

  • Calendio pressed his neck to the ground with the trident, and, resting both hands on the handle of it, turned toward Cæsar's box.

  • Here he turned toward Vinicius, who looked at him with staring eyes.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
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