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Example sentences for "turning over"

  • Fold it in three by turning over one-third of its length toward the other end, and thus covering another third of it; fold or turn over the remaining third, so as to cover the first third turned over.

  • The conscience of men cannot be calmed by new devices: it can be calmed only by turning over a new leaf, when there will be no longer any need for justification.

  • You cannot ameliorate this matter by any kind of amusements, comforts, powders, but only by turning over a new leaf.

  • Gherardi had moved to a book-case, and was standing close to it, turning over a vellum-bound manuscript.

  • Wearily he sat, turning over everything in his mind, and longing, with a weakness which he fully admitted to his own conscience, to leave Rome at once and return to his own home, there to die among his roses at peace.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    ascetic austerities; been able; cannot doubt; great advance; keep away; long knife; medical superintendent; moved back; say you; seeing nothing; turning about; turning again; turning around; turning away; turning from; turning movement; turning over; turning point; turning round; turning sharply; turning them; turning toward; whilst young; wild sheep; will still; wounded soldiers