He was almost on the point of turning back, but it was only a passing impulse, and muttering, “Nonsense!
You can pass through the world doing wrong, but there’s no turning back.
The orange trees blossom even here with care," said Jackeymo, turning backto draw down an awning where the orange trees faced the north.
When the final die was cast there must be no turning back, no lingering regrets.
Turning back to the town, the broad thoroughfare running down a portion of the quays is lined with magnificent palms, giving it an almost Oriental aspect.
One might have thought that passing through that doorway was renouncing an old life and taking up a new one; an irrevocable step and choice from which there was no recall and no turning back.
Mexican letters of marque had immediately filled the Gulf.
Nothing had been heard outside, but the woman came out staggering, with her hand on the wall.
And through the jumble of my thoughts darted the sudden knowledge that there was a sea-fog outside--a thing quite different from the nightly mists of the bay.
Perhaps Macdonald was amongst them, even looking for me.
There are no turnings or by-paths, and no turning back.
There are no turnings or bye-paths, and no turning back.
By the way," he said, turning back as he left the vestry, "what was the piece which you played after the service just now?
Lord Blandamer pledged him in a bumper, and Westray answered without hesitation, for he had given his allegiance, and would have drunk poison in token that there was to be no turning back now.
Then the architect would brush such follies away like cobwebs, and, turning back, consider who could have found his interest in such a deed.
Yes, this is all Le Bec's work," the Rector went on, turning back to Westray.
Whether I have done wrong, or whether I have done right, there's no turning back now.
Mistress Allison, you have set out on a road in which there is no turning back now, if you would help to save this man's soul.
Let me do the talking," Grishkov said, turning back to the others.
By that time, however, there would be no turning back.
Act of retorting or throwing back; reflection or turning back.
Ferguson," turning back to address the detective, "you'll find me at the Saratoga for the next hour.
I must go," she said, turning back to look at her father and his bride.
Turning back to his table and the papers thereon he failed to see the twins pass each other in the aisle.
In a few seconds the thing will have been done: the kind of thing from which there is no turning back--which can never be retrieved, never blotted out.
He had worked himself into such a state of fright that he thought of turning back.
Afterwards there is no turning back, so it was a great risk to try anything like that.
Why doth Jerusalem make this people to turn back with an eternal (or perfect, utter, absolute) turning back?
The beginning of evil courses is turning away from Iahvah; the beginning of reform is turning back to Iahvah.
The term is first used in the sense of turning back or away from Iahvah, and then in that of returning to Him, according to its metaphorical meaning "to repent.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "turning back" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
