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find by digging in the ground
I dug up an old box in the garden -
bend or lay so that one part covers the other
fold up the newspaper
turn up your collar -
discover the location of; determine the place of; find by searching or examining
Can you locate your cousins in the Midwest?
My search turned up nothing -
be shown or be found to be
She turned up HIV positive
She proved to be right
The medicine turned out to save her life -
appear or become visible; make a showing
She turned up at the funeral
I hope the list key is going to surface again
How To Use turn up In A Sentence
- Grasses, flax, astelia, griselinia, and coprosma are generally quite hardly and will stand a good deal of rough and tumble before they turn up their toes. Rotorua Daily Post
- Turn up the heat and reduce the poaching liquor by one third. Times, Sunday Times
- I quickly racked my brain for the answer, only to turn up with nothing but a blank.
- We are working on the assumption that everyone invited will turn up.
- There was two or three chairs, that might have been worth, in their best days, from eightpence to a shilling a – piece; a small deal table, an old corner cupboard with nothing in it, and one of those bedsteads which turn up half way, and leave the bottom legs sticking out for you to knock your head against, or hang your hat upon; no bed, no bedding. Sketches by Boz
- I'm pretty sure some of my neighbors would still turn up for bear-baiting or a nice drawing and quartering if it were going on down at the town green. Where I work...
- I managed to turn up a copy in both Nagari and Nastaliq of another of his stories, "Khol Do" here or here for Nastaliq; furthermore, the fact that the Devanagari version was copied from a source text gives me hope of finding such an edition for myself... or, of course, I could just finally learn how to read the script... Languagehat.com: SAADAT HASAN MANTO.
- But do I relish the idea of playing a character where you're not playing the lead role and where you can turn up and absolutely go crazy?
- Now is the time to really turn up the dial. The Sun
- This will be a stern test for Ballintubber and all club supporters are asked to turn up and give their support to the boys in red.