How To Use Well-turned In A Sentence
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Man finished his recitation just as the steward brought in a well-turned glass bottle and two deep cups.
MAN'S LOVING FAMILY
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In place of the well-turned, feline exchanges of Versailles, there is a certain coarseness.
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She may have four children ranging in age from 14 to 22, but critics say that despite the lipstick and well-turned heel, she has few wifely or maternal qualities.
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My paper, and others, should reward me well if I turn our jaunt into a well-turned narrative.
ANTI-ICE
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Since Dante is a compendium of the middle ages, bringing together its theology and philosophy as well as its poetry, liturgy and music, this was more that a well-turned phrase.
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Black hose revealed a well-turned leg, disappearing into puffed pumpkin hose, richly embroidered and paned in black on black.
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There is a certain attentive tenderness, difficult to be described, which the manly of our sex feel, and which is peculiarly pleasing to woman: 'tis also a very delightful sensation to ourselves, as well as productive of the happiest consequences: regarding them as creatures placed by Providence under our protection, and depending on us for their happiness, is the strongest possible tie of affection to a well-turned mind.
The History of Emily Montague
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a well-turned phrase
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a well-turned ankle
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Now Mr. Dubus chronicles the desperation of his own hardscrabble upbringing in the post-industrial mill towns of Massachusetts, where he brawled away his youth before he realized that a well-turned sentence offered more satisfaction than a cleanly landed right cross.
Bareknuckle Beginnings
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On the other hand, every night I take Gnat out of the bath, take her to the big bed for diapering, and EVERY NIGHT my well-turned shin is too much for Jasper to resist, and gawDAMN those dewclaws hurt when they dig in.
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And then the tapering waist, the comfortable bottom, the well-turned calves, the thighs, the energetic feet.
CONFESSIONS OF AN UGLY STEPSISTER
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She looked as well-turned out as she had the previous day but much more frenetic.
DEATH OF A NYMPH
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Geoffrey himself was unrecognisable as the well-turned-out business entrepreneur of Hong Kong.