How To Use Turned In A Sentence

He pulled himself up and stumbled to the bathroom, where he turned on the cold tap and collapsed at the bottom of the shower, barely awake.
Shah went forth with her for a distance of three parasangs; after which he bade farewell to her and the Wazir and those with him, and returned to his home in gladness and safety. The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
I turned up at the school yard with my hippie backpack slung over one shoulder feeling pretty cool. Times, Sunday Times
Smith was returned as MP for Bath.
A few uncounted votes or a few thousand voters turned away can be the difference between a national victory or not.

It was only a couple of minutes after his toe-curling DJ'ing started that I gave up and turned over.
A few days after, they brought the intelligence that Barbarina had returned; and the councillor dwelt with her in her new house; and the servants were commanded to call the signora Madame Cocceji. as she was his well-beloved and trusted wife. Berlin and Sans-Souci; or Frederick the Great and his friends
His season may have turned on a couple of bits of skill and a small dash of luck. Times, Sunday Times
So the publisher/distributor is sending the rest of the order while the first half is being RETURNED FOR CREDIT, and Borders can then use that credit to get books through Ingrams, who carries a helluva lot more than just that one small press. January 11th, 2009
It was then allowed to recover on the stringer in deeper water before being returned alive to grow on to even larger proportions.
Days later, Gregg was gunned down near Belfast docks as he returned from a Glasgow Rangers football match.
Everyone needed time to take stock after the most prestigious solo race had turned into a demolition derby. Times, Sunday Times
These planes are made with two separate stocks held together with either metal or turned wooden screws.
The rest of them continued filling plates while Reggie and Lettie returned at brisk intervals to reload their trays. WEEKEND FOR MURDER
Mediterranean to look out for a French and Spanish squadron, which had been on the coast of Portugal, but returned to Ferrol --- I received all your letters by the Turkish corvette, which is arrived at Messina. The Life of the Right Honourable Horatio Lord Viscount Nelson, Volume 2
As they negotiated the park gates and turned into the crowded thoroughfare, Patience sat, stiffly erect; inside, her emotions churned. A RAKE'S VOW
Instinctively they turned their back on the farce staged by the trade unions.
She huffed, stood up, arched her back in a heavyweight stretch, turned to the fountain and started in on a long, long drink.
We've seen how things turned out for Scotland's national football manager; matters are organised no differently in the more modest context that is Scottish shinty.
The general turned his gaze from one person to the other present at the summit meeting.
In the Zirgana mountains large red deer softly returned their gaze from an apprehensive distance.
The man pumped up the pressure and returned to kneel in front of William. A Roomful of Birds - Scottish short stories 1990
I have returned to campus enlivened by a sense of professional renewal, and I have developed course syllabi, assignments, and activities that incorporate many ideas from my fellowship experiences.
his face turned red with rage
This would suggest that he might have returned to bed before collapsing and dying in mysterious circumstances. Times, Sunday Times
They run out of beer by about 7pm so we then turned to the wine, which I'm afraid would have stripped the paint off any wall.
Once upon a time, 12 young men were turned into swans by their wicked stepmother. Times, Sunday Times
he turned up in well-cut clothes...and upmarket felt hats
I know by my family history that a forebear of mine turned on the gods of Mother India and professed faith to the One True God.
And as I watched, having circled back through the carlot, she turned back from heavy traffic several times. Grouse Diary Entry
But what would happen if that gaze turned to the IT industry, and asked us what we are doing to reduce our carbon footprint? Computing
But when he returned to his room to give his other half the glad tidings, the housekeeper, who was listening to the story, interrupted to tell them that she knew of plenty of empty rooms.
I shrugged uselessly, before I turned to hear Alex's laugh vibrating in the room.
Portuguese later acquired the property and turned it into the European-style Leal Senado Building for municipal chamber and the front square for Portuguese settlers to hold festive celebrations.
Many parts of this city turned into a slurb.
Manning turned slowly, a fallacious smile on his lips, his eyes hard. CORMORANT
An awesome book - what Robinson is particularly good at is figuring out how Chaplin pieced together out of accident, inspiration and music hall stunt, what turned into complex, archetypal early film narrative.
The movie had won critical acclaim and is actually one of the few hits that Bollywood turned out this year so far.
I returned to my hotel to sit at the window and watch the grand son-et-lumière that night, the opening show of the south-west monsoon.
Leo Nocentelli, co-founder of the Meters and New Orleans guitar legend, may not have turned Blues Alley into the steamiest place in Georgetown on Wednesday night when he re-ignited "Fire On The Bayou. In concert: The Meters Experience at Blues Alley
The wide planing hull lends stability for easy shots down tough rapids, and the boat's upturned bow makes punching through big holes a cinch.
A mummy's pinkie turned out to be pilose asiabell, which she said was good for breathing, provided it was cooked with astragalus (those were the white sections of tongue depressor). Seattle Weekly | Complete Issue
He turned his back to the refrigerator and addressed the shaken lawman. WILD JUSTICE
Elena and Marina got to see the same sight when the waitress turned to serve Sean. HAVANA BEST FRIENDS
I am never quite clear on whether all this is sartorial or sardonicDads way of announcing that he used to be a punker but is now a middle-school English teacher, or if becoming a teacher has actually turned my dad into this genuine throwback. Excerpt: If I Stay by Gayle Forman
I turned to air kiss Mr. Bailey and instead found myself falling as if in slow motion into the throne r oom where the Queen was holding court. A Royal Engagement
The announcement hushed the crowd but soon the hubbub returned and the misfortune was forgotten.
A date was fixed for the work to be carried out but workmen never turned up.
Neither Chout, turned down initially by Diaghilev, nor the piano concerto, rejected comprehensively by its muse Paul Wittgenstein the LPO's soloist was Leon Fleisher, quite banished that impression of mechanical note-spinning. LPO/Jurowski; Betrothal in a Monastery; Psappha ensemble; SCO/Ticciati – review
There was Patch after was drowned out of a curagh that turned over. The Atlantic Book of Modern Plays
He is likely the QMJHL's best bodychecker and has turned into a real dynamo from the blue line in. USATODAY.com - Undrafted college prospects could get NHL lockout look
He went into chemistry, left New Plymouth in 1946, and returned in 1952 to take up a post at his old school as housemaster and teacher.
Patagonia has turned organic cotton and fleece made of recycled plastic into high-end outdoor wear.
The paddles turned out to be harmless slapsticks, with holes through the actual paddle part so they could cause a loud slapping noise without hurting.
The tissue is removed from the acid and turned into powder which patients then put on their wound. The Sun
One of them turned and caught sight of my stricken face. Times, Sunday Times
Then, suddenly, the house turned itself into a Richard Curtis film - the one in which all those hard-hearted world leaders listen to a young wee Scots lassie who tells them that, yes, they can make poverty history, now!
How many times has something as fanciful as a unicorn, a yeti, a mermaid or a werewolf turned out to be based on fact?
The lure of profit from gold and diamonds, as well as from minerals such as coltan, which is used to make mobile phones, have turned eastern Congo into a battlefield. The Guardian World News
As soon as the horses had obtained some food and repose, Sir Philip also returned, and Emily was left, with a woman who felt at her heart that she could have poniarded her not an hour before. The International Monthly, Volume 2, No. 4, March, 1851
I was studying a phenomenon known since 1908 as the phototaxy of chloroplasts: the property of some algae living at the surface of ponds to orient their large unique chloroplast according to the intensity of light; if the light was too intense, the chloroplast turned inside the tubular cell to present its edge. Luc Montagnier - Autobiography
After one longing look down the path, she turned around, and started running back the way she'd come.
He heard his name shouted and turned in time to see Kirk, twenty yards to his left. Home Is the Hunter
Here and there a mother turned her head to call back anxiously for the bleating lambkin lost behind the white curtain; and, dim and grotesque, the awkward strayling would come gamboling into sight. Virginia: the Old Dominion
Her mom turned her down at first, she hadn't the money to sign her up, but Mrs Deterville, recognizing the young tyke's determination and interest told her not to bother about the cash.
ALLAHABAD - As the country marked the first anniversary of 26/11 Mumbai terrorist attacks, hundreds of people in Uttar Pradesh's Allahabad district turned up at the bank of the Ganga Thursday to witness the "hanging" of terrorist Mohammad Ajmal Amir Kasab. Gaea Times (by Simple Thoughts) Breaking News and incisive views 24/7
caulked," that is, split longitudinally and turned up and down. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 3 "Brescia" to "Bulgaria"
She turned a deaf ear to our warnings and got lost.
My head turns sideways; my eyes turned outwards towards the wall. Times, Sunday Times
They approached the first crossroad and turned right, the road soon becoming smoother and wider as the trees started to thin.
He may be getting turned on watching them, but it's you he wants to have sex with.
Christine returned to Dawson Fold to help her father manage the farm and run the shop.
I made a note of Mahoney's home address and returned the paper to the waste basket.
We turned north along the Shyok gorge and passed through some of the most incredible scenery that any of us had witnessed.
As they turned around, Cary ducked into a cave to avoid being seen.
It turned out I was pretty good in science. But again, because of the small budget, in science class we couldn't afford to do experiments in order to prove theories. We just believed everything. Actually, I think that class was called Religion. Religion class was always an easy class. All you had to do was suspend the logic and reasoning you were being taught in all the other classes. George Carlin
She returned his kiss with passion.
His efforts have turned up critical leads, brought forward witnesses and suggested potential persons of interest. Times, Sunday Times
As he rose in society, his romantic entanglements damaged his career and he returned to his former sweetheart in Ireland. Times, Sunday Times
A childhood memory returned to me of a summer in the country. THE EXECUTION
To illustrate, No. 2 of Table 2 may be characterized as a "right whirler," for he turned to the right almost uniformly. The Dancing Mouse A Study in Animal Behavior
At least one car was overturned and others had windows smashed by what locals described as a mini tornado that swept through the area shortly before 1pm.
They've turned sensible, if you take my meaning.
A Hampshire junior school has turned weakness into strength and won glowing praise from Ofsted inspectors.
At around $1,195 it sounds expensive, until you realize your grandchildren will still be using it long after you've turned into dust and are part of the backstop at your local range.
Most, however, returned home, brimming over with plunder.
Instinctively, Hunter tried to field the ball barehanded - an unfortunate decision, as it turned out - and incurred a hairline fracture to his right thumb.
A series of offensives in early 1918 achieved initial success but ultimately failed to break the Allied line, and by summer, with the Americans coming in droves, the tide of the war had turned irreversibly against the Central Powers. How Wars end
We will be reiterating that safety message until the crossing is turned back on.
It got infected, then turned into a diabetic ulcer. The Sun
Speckle tracking in migrating cells with retrograde flow had turned out to be more challenging.
The economy finally turned down after a long boom
With a twist of his body, Vince turned so that his left leg was now resting on top of the broken wall of stone.
Then the truck roared down the road, crashed into the ranks, turned over and hit a tree. Times, Sunday Times
Lou's car turned around, and sped off down the quiet dark street as Ted stood under the glow of a lamp post, reflecting on all that had happened that night.
The lawyer-turned-playwright's "true story" of her friendship with a convicted "homegrown" terrorist does suffer from an unfortunate Pollyannaism, however. The Globe and Mail - Home RSS feed
Each evening, before retiring, the careful wife sees that a hocho, or kitchen knife, is laid upon the kitchen floor, and covered with a kanadarai, or brazen wash - basin, on the upturned bottom of which is placed a single straw sandal, of the noiseless sort called zori, also turned upside down. Glimpses of Unfamiliar Japan Second Series
The property returned to the original owner.
When she returned she redressed her hair, drawing it back across her ears, put in at a provocative angle a fan-like carved shell comb, and twisted a shawl of flame-colored silk -- it was a manton, she instructed him -- about her shoulders. Cytherea
The car turned on the wet road and slipped into the fence.
The climax of these commotions came during the fourth week of September, when the parliament returned in triumph from its exile.
The matinee performance on Tuesday was sold out and people were turned away as all 253 seats were full.
Second, the Employment Tribunal's decision should be read generously and not overturned merely because of infelicitous or inappropriate statements which were looking at the matter in the round, of an inessential nature.
But only one is a riot-grrrl guitar hero, turned NPR blogger, turned ascendant sketch comedian. ‘Portlandia’ star, guitarist Carrie Brownstein finds outlet for all her interests
The political wheel had turned full circle, and he was back in power.
After posting a "sunny, bright, cozy loft" on the rental marketplace, the woman, who uses the pseudonym EJ, returned to find the apartment ransacked by a renter using the name "DJ Pattrson. ABC News: Top Stories
I saw her shock, then shock turned into annoyance, and annoyance turned into anger.
Using her pole as a staff, her temporarily lamed left hand useless at her side, she turned, beginning her hunt for the tricky sorceress and a place to camp once more.
Name one country in history where bolstering people in their prejudices has turned out for the best. Times, Sunday Times
When Wood returned to the truck parked on Panorama Drive, her bike was gone along with two others belonging to friends visiting from Washing-ton state.
Angie turned to see Maya standing there with a devilish grin.
Our trip from Florida to Pennsylvania to attend the Cairn Terrier Specialty Dog Show, was one long series of mishaps, turned into hilarious memories.
Towards the end of the week the weather turned very mild.
Twice as many hospitals turned ambulances away last week compared with the same period last year. Times, Sunday Times
All at once the apparent walls of the room turned from a gold color to a black dotted with stars, most like a midnight sky.
The third room of the Venice show has been turned into a stairway and elevator experience.
Since the birth of her baby brother she had turned really nasty.
Her eyes missed nothing; her dainty close-set ears heard all -- the short, dry note of a chewink, the sweet, wholesome song of the cardinal, the thrilling cries of native jays and woodpeckers, the heavenly outpoured melody of the Florida wren, perched on some tiptop stem, throat swelling under the long, delicate, upturned bill. The Firing Line
It is said that Scheiner, on hearing this in a Rome bookshop, turned purple and shook violently.
They had tiffed occasionally, and broken off the friendship, and once I believe returned letters. Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great
I turned up about half eleven and stayed until quarter to seven that night, and left others still playing.
Too many soldiers have returned from combat with tales of faulty equipment. Times, Sunday Times
China already turned into by commissariat recipient country commissariat helps a nation.
The blowup was the low point of a season in which Zambrano got banished to the bullpen after a slow start and continued to struggle when he returned to the rotation. Gaea Times (by Simple Thoughts) Breaking News and incisive views 24/7
It turned out to be a cheap pair of spectacles with one red lens and one blue lens.
She laid the table then went back and returned with two more glasses.
In the USSR, most anarchists turned into Communists after the Russian Revolution.
It turned my stomach to look at the pictures.
For the British, however, it has all turned to dust, surrendered by the pusillanimous politicians.
Across the upland above the cliff a ploughman drove leisurably forth and back, and always close behind his heels the earth was white with these birds inspecting the fresh-turned furrow. The White Wolf and Other Fireside Tales
The jury returned an open verdict.
When I turned around, Charlie was still standing at the counter with a mischievous gleam in his dark eyes.
After an exile of ten years her uncle returned to Britain.
As it happens, the setback turned out to be the only hiccup in the 14 race series, and Andy made an astonishing recovery to claim 11 victories in his last 12 race meetings.
Will sighed and turned around slowly, holding his hands up in a gesture of surrender.
Heart disease is an affection of the heart brought on by morbific agents turned loose in the blood from imperfect digestion.
In the past floods have joined together Buttermere and Crummock lakes into one huge mere, and unified Thirlmere periodically long before Manchester Corporation turned it into one big reservoir. A seasonal lament
This horse was so fleet, and its rider so expert, that they are said to have outstripped and coted, or turned, a hare upon the Bran-Law, near the head of Moffat Water, where the descent is so precipitous, that no merely earthly horse could keep its feet, or merely mortal rider could keep the saddle. Old Mortality, Complete
He downshifted and turned the steering wheel.
She grinned and turned on her heel, ready to bolt down the hallway and dart her way out of the prison.
My writing coach then turned me on to the idea of blogging earlier this year – he made me realize that being a blogger is also a way to be “published.” How to Get a Book Deal: Part 1 – Printasauraus Rex Vs. The Blog: Publishing 2.0 | Write to Done
The tide, too, which had hitherto favoured us, now turned against us and drove us to the eastward with prodigious rapidity, so that we were in great anxiety for the Wager and the Anna pink, the two sternmost vessels, fearing they would be dashed to pieces against the shore of Staten Land. Anson's Voyage Round the World The Text Reduced
The next morning, I turned away from the dazzling coast and took the road inland to bandit country. Times, Sunday Times
Everywhere I turned there were immense trees towering above me, rainbows of exotically coloured blooms, and thick dark carpets of creeping moss.
Pete sounded muffled. and as he turned Marcus noticed that he too had a loose thread on his shirt.
A ram-raider returned to Medway in April to steal a Nissan Cabstar lorry from Commissioner's Road, Strood. Kos RSS Feed
And at last he had returned, not in triumph as a master, but as a pilgrim on sabbatical seeking the holy city of his youth. THE BROKEN GOD
Then he turned back to the rich young patricians who were all laughing at her expense.
Bonuses and pay increases have returned, at least for the most favoured executives. Times, Sunday Times
And so when they had repasted them well, the dwarf returned again with his vessel unto the castle again; and there met with him the Red Knight of the Red Launds, and asked him from whence that he came, and where he had been. Le Morte d'Arthur: Sir Thomas Malory's book of King Arthur and of his noble knights of the Round table
Presiding over the amphitheatre was a beast-headed god, his head half turned away. Henry’s Demons
He turned to me, his eyes glittering with a new seduction.
Which obseruances and ceremonies performed and brought to end, they returned streightwaies to their ships, and as soone as the wind served, passed forward on their iournie with great ioy and gladnesse, as men put in comfort to find out the wished seats for their firme and sure Chronicles (1 of 6): The Historie of England (2 of 8)
Carly turned to prostitution to feed her drug habit.
His head turned metronomically, his neck aching as he looked back over each shoulder in turn, again and again. THE LAST RAVEN
Lots of times words get perverted, too -- computer scientists who talk of "synchronous processes" have no idea what the actual definition in English of "synchronous" is -- they think it means "synchronized" -- and when they call putting millions of transistors on a tiny chip and call it Very Large Scale Integration, they're turned the phrase "large scale" on its very head. My mechanic Steve
Desmond scoffed, and then flipping up the tail of his coat, turned to sit down on the chair beside Isabella's.
A Shandean fate overtook his body, which was taken by grave-robbers, recognized at an anatomy lecture in Cambridge, and secretly returned to its grave.
Others attempted to storm a naval base, but were turned back by police.
For, when you think back to the creation of mobile phones, what started as a useful way of communicating quickly turned into sexting.
He turned up at the swish hotel suite to meet us all by himself, with no fuss and no entourage, and was utterly charming. The Sun
Marlix feared they might be immune to his hurricane spell, but they turned out to be immune to arcance spells, including counterspell, which made it harder for us to pull them away to a quiet spot of the hall. Crossfire in Dire Maul: in over our heads
And final confirmation of my poor state of mind from lack of sleep came when Mark returned from going out.
That for exportation is usually obtained by pressing the copperah in a simple press turned by bullocks. The Commercial Products of the Vegetable Kingdom Considered in Their Various Uses to Man and in Their Relation to the Arts and Manufactures; Forming a Practical Treatise & Handbook of Reference for the Colonist, Manufacturer, Merchant, and Consumer, o
Their wedding turned out to be quite an occasion.
And the switches did the trick as it turned a game in Palace's favour. The Sun
A kid I used to be friends with turned against me after being told that I'd been insulting him.
Edwin, who, with Grimsby, had volunteered the dangerous service of reconnoitering the enemy, returned within an hour, bringing in a straggler from the English camp. The Scottish Chiefs
Lord of the Rings, the tale of a pacifist-turned-assassin lugging a rifle to a dictator's heartland in order to get off that one critical shot. Zornhau: Merlin's Snake Oil – or why arcanists are not artillery
As she pulled on a tan leather blouson, she eyed me warily, and I returned the compliment.
Writing in 1888, historian Henry Howe said that when MacGahan returned to Bulgaria in 1877, he was everywhere hailed as a liberator and deliverer.
Once the porridge has returned to the boil, it should be allowed to cook slowly for 20-30 minutes.
Be cautious: many busy prospective employers are turned off by unsolicited phone calls.
As I turned the page his picture leapt out at me.
They overturned the verdict because of its lightness.
The chemical heating process in producing the so-called pomace oil from olive residues may result in the carcinogen, but pure oil, turned out by mechanically squeezing olive fruits, presented no health threat, the minister said.
As the bus turned into a new recognizable road, the pavements were filled with people, scarves blowing in the wind.
He chested down a cross on the edge of the box, juggled it once on his foot with back to goal, turned and shot with his left.
Pierre sat bold upright so quickly that he bonked his head on the floor of the overturned boat.
We arrived back in Baku around 7: 30, bid our adieus and returned to our respective sites. Archive 2008-06-01
He turned out the light when he left.
Side note: If the tables were turned and McGavick had a larger war chest than Cantwell we'd be bombarded with cries of "Big Money!" and schemes to reduce/eliminate financial support in senatorial races too. Sound Politics: Suppression of dissent in Mrs. Gregoire's Amerikkka
Having proved myself the fount of all world knowledge, I returned Lisa to Brighton on Tuesday evening, in time for our 7 month anniversary on Wednesday, a landmark we celebrated with a visit to the drive-thru McDonalds.
Fire-engines turned out as soon as the fire broke out.
Yorkshire folk turned prickly yesterday after a wild flower charity announced that the common harebell had replaced the white rose as the county's floral emblem.
CJD results in the brain literally being turned into sponge-like, hole-filled tissue (the reason the disease is also known as spongiform encephalopathy). Organic Consumers Association News Headlines
Her blood pressure has returned to its normal level.
Rita had turned down a saleable range because she wanted to protect her regulars and the perks that came with them. YELLOW BIRD
“Troth, my Lord maun be turned feel outright,” said the domestic, “an he puts himsell into sic a carfuffle, for onything ye could bring him, Edie.” The Antiquary
He had turned his head, and was looking oh-so-casually off toward the chromolithograph of Bonnie Prince Charlie with which Mrs. Baird had seen fit to decorate our wall. Sick Cycle Carousel
When he returned to the living area, his three crewmates had already returned.
They upturned four tubs and all the flowers were thrown about.
He turned into the Zona Rosa, a large pedestrian area of ritzy stores and boutiques, Latin techno music shaking his bones as he walked past their open fronts.
I turned on my heel and left the room.
Drake's eyes made a quick scan of the alley to ensure that no other threat lurked nearby, then his gaze returned to the man.
The mischievous glint has returned to the eye of Freddie Burns. Times, Sunday Times
What began in 1968 as a Beltway junkie's labor of love has turned into an authoritative collection of whistle-stopping campaign slogans and vicious slings and arrows of partisan attacks that stretches all the way back to the Founding Fathers (who came up with terms like "electioneer" and the party "ticket"). How to Sound Presidential
The trade was illegal but the government turned a blind eye. Times, Sunday Times
He knocked his drive over the railway sheds, but turned his wrists a hair too soon. Tommy's Honour: The Extraordinary Story of Golf's Founding Father and Son
She turned the knob and was enveloped in a shroud of fetid air as the door swung open.

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