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Example sentences for "turns away"

  • It matters not, then say no more [turns away].

  • He turns away with a muttered exclamation, not benedictory towards his betrothed, between his teeth.

  • His own meet them for an instant; then he turns away with a half-shudder.

  • He turns away, with hands clenched and lips bitten, in the endeavour to be master of his useless surging rage.

  • Then he turns away to a tall, languid rather passive lady, who is talking slowly by his side.

  • He turns away, shame, remorse, fear in his averted face.

  • He turns away, sad at heart, to his sadder scenes.

  • He turns away reluctantly, draws his hand from Marston's, heaves a sigh, and repairs to his labour.

  • One minute some cheering hope of his getting a good master presents itself in a familiar face; then it turns away, and with it vanishes his hope.

  • In like manner despair regards directly the good which it turns away from, while fear regards the conjoined evil.

  • Now sin does not derive its malice from its proper object to which it turns, and which is some appetible good, but rather from that which it turns away from.

  • Moreover sin is not specified by that from which it turns away, because in this respect it is a negation or privation, but by that to which it turns, in so far as sin is an act.

  • He who knows the bliss of that Brahman from whence all speech, together with the mind, turns away unable to reach it,' hence must be taken as proclaiming with emphasis the infinite nature of Brahman's auspicious qualities.

  • JEAN turns away as though vaguely looking for the nearest chair.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    bank book; care being taken not; extreme importance; farther west; hasty glance; hushed voice; otras cosas; quick gesture; raised again; religious doctrine; religious society; sallow face; soft porcelain; that case; thin voice; think over; this road; trance state; turns away; vpon their; went immediately; wood ashes