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Example sentences for "turning sharply"

  • In the midst of the roar and reverberation I was startled by a hand laid upon my shoulder, and, turning sharply, I found the sergeant by my side.

  • I had just thrown on as much as I could hug to my breast when I was startled by a heavy breathing; and, turning sharply, for a moment or two I was certain that one of the fierce beasts had crept up.

  • Next, on turning sharply to look in the direction of our comrades, there were the old piled-up walls of our stronghold clearly marked against the sky.

  • And now I am speaking, look here," he cried, turning sharply on the fair girl, and holding his rod over her as if it were a huge stick which he was about to use.

  • Turning sharply to the right, at the end of the first ten or fifteen yards, he entered and crossed a large sort of vestibule, occupying one half of the space in one of the flanking towers.

  • Paul, turning sharply, saw that a poorly-clad woman, sitting in the front row of the spectators, had fainted.

  • I think that for some time I must have been oblivious to my surroundings, for on turning sharply, my eyes suddenly detected some indistinct object, moving cautiously in the shadow.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    between friends; cored ball; did this; each plant; early morning; food materials; getting down; girl who; great deeds; historic period; many other; quite safe; shall afterwards; special significance; turning about; turning around; turning back; turning from; turning movement; turning over; turning pale; turning point; turning quickly; turning toward; under heaven; valuable remedy