If partner turns out very weak in trumps the leader must alter his plan, and, instead of continuing the trump lead, play to make three, five or seven tricks according to the fall of the cards in plain suits.
If he afterwards plays the two, and it turns out that he previously played the four through carelessness, his partner loses confidence, and gives up all hopes of drawing correct inferences from his play.
That's my duty, and when a man has a duty to do he ought to do it, unless something he'd rather do turns up meanwhile.
Every time the weather turns cold a lot of you fellows come around and give yourselves up, and I'm sick and tired of it.
If everything turns out the way I hope it will, you and me will live at Aunt Jane's quite some time.
And she turns her hump at us, and makes faces at us, and won't think we want to be good to her.
Whereat the level brows relax, and she turns away, without a word, to watch the flying landscape; and the splendid flush fades from her cheek as swiftly as it came.
Notwithstanding the entreaties of young Walter How, who holds modern ideas, his father, a moral and law-respecting citizen, turns Falder over to the police.
All that lay dormant in Janet now turns into glowing fire at the touch of Spring.
When her husband dies, Anisya marries Nikita and turns the money over to him.
John turns to Martin, the faithful servant, the only one in the confidence of Rutherford.
Added to this heritage is the call of the wild, the "intense summer heat when the blood turns to fire, and when all are in a holiday spirit, full of gladness, and rank is flung aside.
It is all about a supernatural power that looks after the so-called good people here on earth, and turns all things to their advantage at last, and all the bad people are punished.
Everyone thinks that he for himself takes up room in the world, but it turns out that he is here for another's benefit--for someone better .
If it had not been for Peter, he might have carried off every bit of our food; so we must take it by turns to keep watch.
Of the Swastikas, one is normal, turning to the right; the other turns to the right, but at an obtuse angle, with one end straight and the other irregularly curved.
The first shows a redding comb, the Swastika on which turnsto the right.
Mr. Longdon has asked you this time for a grand public adhesion, and what he turns up for now is to receive your ultimatum?
All your turns and phrases are only an additional insult.
One turns more willingly to the description of Jansoulet's sitting down to play ecarte with Mora, to the story of how he gorged himself with the duke's putative mushrooms, and to similar episodes and touches.
The Holy Spirit, dwelling within, turnsour eyes from that which is temporal to that which is eternal; from the trial itself to God's purpose in the trial; from the present pain to the precious promise.
In this the ninth leaf stands over the first, and three turnsare made around the stem to reach it; so it is expressed by the fraction 3/8.
Thirteen-ranked= arrangement, in which the fourteenth leaf is over the first, after five turns around the stem.
In its growth a root turns or bends away from the light and toward the centre of the earth, so that in lengthening it buries itself in the soil where it is to live and act.
It lengthens, protrudes its root-end; this turns downward, if not already pointing in that direction, and while it is lengthening a root forms at its point and grows downward into the ground.
Some are automatic and are connected with dichogamy (339): the style of Sabbatia and of large-flowered species of Epilobium bends over strongly to one side or turns downward when the blossom opens, but slowly erects itself a day or two later.
The fact is he turnsout an incomparable King, and deserves all the encomiums that are lavished on him.
It turns upon this: Stratford Canning has been appointed Ambassador at St. Petersburg, and the Emperor will not receive him.
Is tuition worth the candle When the conscience turns a loafer?
He knew the spawning-grounds, the secret streams that fed the larger rivers, the outlets of rock-bound lakes, the turnsand tricks of swirling rapids.
Some few yards beyond the cathedral trees, an overgrown disused trail turns into the dense wilderness to the right.
I'm afraid he turns up his little finger too often'; i.
As one who turns a stopcock and arrests A flow of water that need never cease, So Shimei left off speaking, not less full Of matter than at first that might be speech.
Stephen, following Saul, turns the tide of feeling overwhelmingly in the opposite direction.
At the same moment, there rides up a troop of Roman horse escorting a man who turns out to be Sergius Paulus, an old-time acquaintance of Saul's, also bound to Damascus.
Anger none till now, Nor shame not to be angry at such speech From him; but now--anger with burning shame Turns inward and incenses me like fire.
Coming home from the City the next day, I felt like a schoolboy who turns his back upon all the hardships of his life, on some sunny summer holiday.
The devoted courage of a leader turns his followers into heroes--the patient death of one martyr inflames in a thousand slumbering bosoms a zeal answerable to his own.
To make his meaning quite plain, he gives a rough sketch of the screw propeller, with fourturns as used to-day.
The slower it turnsthe closer the balls fall toward it.
Some seasons, it is true, all goes well, but in others the cattle are suddenly bitten, fall dead, and their flesh then turns black and rustles like paper.
A weight on the side of the ball used in the game of bowls, or a tendency imparted to the ball, which turns it from a straight line.
To make fast, as a rope, by taking several turns with it round a pin, cleat, or kevel.
One who, or that which, frightens away or turns aside.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "turns" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
