Below you will find example sentences with "turn toward". The examples show how this phrase is used in natural context and which words often surround it.

Turn Toward in a sentence

Corpus data

  • Displayed example sentences: 20
  • Discovered as a combination around: toward
  • Corpus frequency in the collocation scan: 6
  • Phrase length: 2 words
  • Average sentence length: 24.8 words

Words in this phrase

turn toward

Meanings of words in this phrase

  • turn can mean: To make a non-linear physical movement. Common word
  • toward can mean: In the direction of. Frequent word

Sentence profile

  • Phrase position: 4 start, 12 middle, 4 end
  • Sentence types: 20 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations

Usage patterns

These patterns show short text windows around the phrase in the example sentences:

a global turn toward more humility 1× a turn toward the north 1× a turn toward the northwest 1× an abrupt turn toward the vehicle 1× and a turn toward the north 1× by a turn toward the north 1× by a turn toward the northeast 1× by a turn toward the nw 1×

Sentence openings and endings

Common sentence openings:

a turn toward 2× and if everyone 1× athill wrote seven 1× barbara is moving 1× haley is a 1× he was able 1×

Common sentence endings:

exactly a week 1× for so long 1× humility in governing 1× in their trials 1× knew her place 1× little more slapstick 1×

Context words

These words often appear near this phrase in the example sentences:

north 4× followed 4× northwest 3× forecast 3× moving 2× near 2× nine 2× mph 2× motion 2× thursday 2× northeast 2× god 2×

Related phrases

turn off turn left heading toward attitude toward turn depends toward achieving move toward unexpected turn moving toward step toward

Phrases around this combination

Other phrases discovered around toward:

move toward 6× moving toward 5× step toward 5×

Just before it in the phrase index:

turn off turn left turn depends turkish side turkish president turkish military

Just after it in the phrase index:

turned down turned off turner syndrome turning blind turning off turtle creek

Other phrases with the same pattern

Same start:

turn off turn left turn depends

Same ending:

heading toward attitude toward move toward moving toward step toward

Corpus analysis

  • The phrase "turn toward" has 2 words and usually appears in the middle in these examples. The average sentence has 24.8 words and is mostly made up of statements.
  • Around this phrase, patterns and context words such as a global turn toward more humility, a turn toward the north, north, followed and northwest stand out.
  • In the phrase index, this combination connects with turn off, turn left, heading toward, move toward, moving toward and step toward, linking the page to nearby combinations.

Example types with turn toward

This selection groups the examples by length and sentence type, making usage of the full phrase easier to scan:

Short example sentences

Turn toward Lazy Land. (4 words)

The result may be a global turn toward more humility in governing. (12 words)

And if everyone else is turning away from Goff, we’ll turn toward him. (14 words)

Longer example sentences

Tragedy has a way of causing people to either turn from God (by becoming bitter or blaming Him for their misfortunes) or to turn toward God (by seeking His help and discovering His purpose in their trials). (37 words)

Los Angeles Sheriff’s Dept. Homicide Capt. Kent Wegener said the gunman approached from behind the patrol vehicle, walked along side as if he was going to pass it, then made an abrupt turn toward the vehicle. (37 words)

Still, there are “some signs of hope” – including a turn toward renewable energies and more electric cars, which help reduce the amount of carbon that is spewed into the atmosphere, trapping heat inside, Mr Taalas said. (36 words)

Example sentences (20)

Philippe is moving toward the northwest near nine mph and a turn toward the north-northwest is forecast later today, followed by a faster motion toward the north on Thursday and Friday, the DDM stated.

A turn toward the northwest is forecast to occur later Sunday night or on Monday, followed by a turn toward the north on Tuesday.

A turn toward the north-northeast with an increase in forward speed is expected tonight followed by a turn toward the northeast over the weekend.

Barbara is moving toward the WNW near 13 mph and this general motion is forecast to continue for the next day or so, followed by a turn toward the NW on Thursday.

Tragedy has a way of causing people to either turn from God (by becoming bitter or blaming Him for their misfortunes) or to turn toward God (by seeking His help and discovering His purpose in their trials).

He was able to end his brief turn toward evil before it went too far.

MBS has been forced to turn toward other like-minded autocratic states such as China, which earlier this year to open up official relations between the monarchy and Iran’s rival Shiite regime.

Readers may have been surprised to see Tomine turn toward such a maudlin vision of representation, after avoiding it for so long.

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Still, there are “some signs of hope” – including a turn toward renewable energies and more electric cars, which help reduce the amount of carbon that is spewed into the atmosphere, trapping heat inside, Mr Taalas said.

The desire so many of us share to turn toward a cleaner and healthier world creates demand.

The election of these candidates and the wider turn toward influencing state institutions, however, has led to a variety of fresh challenges.

Turn toward Lazy Land.

And if everyone else is turning away from Goff, we’ll turn toward him.

Athill wrote seven of her memoirs after leaving her nine-to-five, but, until that relatively late turn toward autobiographical mania, she knew her place.

Haley is a paradigmatic spiritual “BoomerCon” (boomer conservative) and doctrinaire neoconservative who, like the Bourbons of old, has “learned nothing and forgotten nothing” from the GOP’s post-2016 course-correcting turn toward nationalism and realism.

Starting with "Bride of Chucky," the series took a turn toward comedy, turning the horror into something a little more slapstick.

The result may be a global turn toward more humility in governing.

Los Angeles Sheriff’s Dept. Homicide Capt. Kent Wegener said the gunman approached from behind the patrol vehicle, walked along side as if he was going to pass it, then made an abrupt turn toward the vehicle.

Of course, an alternative economic view, led by economists like Milton Friedman, was that this turn toward the Republican Party was rational and served workers’ interests.

Once we have results from Iowa, sights will turn toward New Hampshire, where primary voters go to the polls in exactly a week.

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