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take turns

VERB
  1. do something in turns
    We take turns on the night shift

How To Use take turns In A Sentence

  • Dan and I usually take turns to cook.
  • The robin chaffinch blue tit and wren and green linnet collectively can put on a marvellous show as they take turns at feeding.
  • For the first few weeks after the chick hatches, the parents take turns tending the chick and foraging, with foraging trips taking many days.
  • When the soldiers have drunk more, they will take turns going into the wagon with the women.
  • You share sunscreen, swap flip-flops and take turns springing for sno-cones.
  • In vain Mahoney strove to get the men to take turns in watching aloft from the mizzenmast for any chance vessel. THE "FRANCIS SPAIGHT"
  • Five teams of six officers will take turns to run alongside the flame at all times, with others on motorcycles and bicycles. Times, Sunday Times
  • We sit on pillows in front of them as they respectfully take turns to explain their plight.
  • Immediately before the priest, who holds the chalice under the humeral veil, two acolytes take turns incensing the Blessed Sacrament. Compendium of the 1955 Holy Week Revisions of Pius XII: Part 4.2 - Good Friday, The Adoration of the Cross and the Rite of the Presanctified
  • The male and female birds take turns in sitting on the eggs.
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