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Example sentences for "would turn"

  • And when it fell into his hands, he would turn it into the yellowest of sensational journals, and hoot the memory of its present staff from ocean to ocean!

  • At times, when perchance he would come upon her huddled in a corner and weeping quietly, he would turn away, cursing deeply and swearing fulsome vengeance upon the lecherous beast who had wrought her ruin.

  • But she did know that, were he less stupidly greedy, even to the extent of taking but a hundred per cent profit, he would turn a flood of sunshine into hundreds of sick, despairing, dying souls.

  • Then he would turn away to the portrait of his dead Lise, who with hair curled a la grecque looked tenderly and gaily at him out of the gilt frame.

  • Only a couple of times a year--when he knew from their valets that they had money in hand--he would turn up of a morning quite sober and with a deep bow would ask them to help him.

  • And all the above property he would turn over to me, and I might give him deeds to property in Nauvoo.

  • I reflected a little, and gave him a list of city property at Nauvoo that I would turn over to him at one-fourth its value for what property he would turn out to me.

  • I used to tell you that you killed him with the Catechism, and that he would turn wicked as soon as he broke from his mammy’s leading-strings.

  • And rather than disturb him, I would turn monk, or disappear in America.

  • Pardon me, if I would turn off by a jest a thought that I see would shock you, as myself, if gravely encouraged.

  • Restore the body thus temporarily counterpoised to its former lightness, and it would turn to Podden Place as the needle to the Pole.

  • Again, there was every reason to believe that Antichrist, when he did appear, would turn out to be a Jew.

  • Sometimes he would turn to the four red folio scrapbooks with their collection of newspaper cuttings, concerning himself, over a period of thirty years.

  • Velica told his countryman that we could not afford to run the risk of disappointing the railroad, so that he would have to leave a deposit as a guarantee that he would turn up in the morning.

  • Velica would be talking to some Italian immigrant who had money, when I would turn up and be introduced.

  • If the name struck me favorably, I shook hands with the new pupil cordially; but if it didn't, I would turn on my heel, for I was particular on this point.

  • The cause of my good uncle's haste was this--he was afraid that I would turn out to be a poet before he could make a merchant of me.

  • Society immediately set a-wondering how it would turn out, and proved very clearly that it must turn out badly.

  • One might have been tempted to believe that he would turn out to be, though a working, only a silent member, but his silence was only prudence.

  • After walking for miles through the streets, either with a friend or alone, loitering at the windows of such shops as still were open, he would turn into an oyster shop or late restaurant for supper.

  • Indifferent as to what stage of the meal he was at, he would turn to whoever it might be that had introduced the subject, and would talk or listen oblivious of the fact that food might be spoiling.

  • If he felt that he had monopolized the conversation he would turn to Watts-Dunton and apologize, and for a time become transformed into an attentive listener.

  • In fact, it was a mere playing at business, and Morris was elected manager, not because we ever dreamed he would turn out a man of business, but because he was the only one among us who had both time and money to spare.

  • Much as it would gratify me to thank him, I would turn my eyes away from the forbidden discovery.

  • Whereupon he would turn angrily on his heel and stride home.

  • If I were seeking for a comparison to relieve the quality of these Olney letters (and it is these that form the real charm of Cowper's correspondence), I would turn to Charles Lamb.

  • Sarochka, happy over his attention, would turn red, beam upon him with grateful eyes, and refuse.

  • My mother said "she always thought I would turn out a gambler anyhow, and didn't expect anything else when I left home, only that I would lose all I had before getting back.

  • He said he had thought all the time we would turn up again, some day.

  • He looked a little woe-begone, and said he was glad to see us back; and he knew we would turn up soon.

  • So calling me to one side he asked if I would be willing to drop the matter if he would turn over to me eleven hundred dollars' worth of goods.

  • I wondered if he would turn up again at the end of another twenty years, and I wondered how he had paid his travelling expenses to the land of the magnolia and the persimmon.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    caper sauce; might haue; second century; without her; would always; would amount; would call; would create; would fain; would have been better; would have been impossible; would have been very; would hear; would help; would here; would lose; would observe; would often; would only; would perhaps; would read; would scarcely; would seem; would tell; would walk; would wish