Want to use Turn correctly in a sentence? These 20 example sentences show the word in context, together with its meaning and synonyms like twist or move.

Common word

Turn in a sentence

Turn | Turned | Turning | Turns | Turner | Turnout | Turnover | Turnovers | Turnaround

Turn meaning

  1. To make a non-linear physical movement.
  2. To move about an axis through itself.

Synonyms of Turn

twist move change deform direct displace grow turn off change state go play turning bend crook curve

Turn in Dutch

Example sentences (20)

But by investing in something that gives you an opportunity at home to turn off the lights, turn off your phone (!

Rosenqvist went to O’Ward’s left and passed him on Turn 7 of the 14-turn road course that is just over 4 miles long.

Amber Heard knows how to turn her fate & it was quite clear when she sold her Mojave desert house to turn her fortune.

Near Chivington, turn north onto County Road 54/Chief White Antelope Way or at Brandon, turn north onto County Road 59.

Although they will take up two turn icons, if it’s a crit, you’ll receive two half-turn icons for extra turns.

I mean you can see the gears kinda making sparks as they try to turn, but they are all trying to turn the same direction.

On the turn, Seize the Grey stretched the lead to two lengths, a distance he took down the backstretch and into the turn.

It’s a nice happy medium if you ask me — it doesn’t turn every head, but it turns the heads you want to turn.

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We about turn, and Kevin and Callum speak firmly yet diplomatically to the flat dweller who agrees to turn his music down.

But the great thing about Macroverse is that you can turn even a small panel into feeling like a page turn.

She has a stack of voter registration forms in her classroom, and she offers to turn them in for students when they turn 18.

The walkers turn right onto Middle Road and travel east before making a right turn onto Olive Bank Drive.

I have often thought magazine writers practise a secret prosody, marrying a specific turn of phrase to a specific turn of mind.

Immersive View will provide a panoramic birds-eye perspective of your route from start to finish, with turn-by-turn directions.

But one fashion entrepreneur has patented a process to turn old clothes into pulp, which in turn can be made into new garments.

If you turn off all the options, you'll get a dialog that asks if you want to turn Siri off altogether.

A388 in both directions re-opened, fallen tree removed between the A30 (Polson / Lifton Down Turn Off) and St Leonards Turn-off.

Even such a modest crowd is a far cry from when merely hundreds of fans would turn out at the ground at the turn of the century.

Put up a no-U-turn sign and they'll bob their head to look around it before making a 3 point U-turn in front of a gravel hauler.

The four leading groups were to turn southeast onto the bomb run in waves of several planes each, keeping formation in the turn.

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Common combinations with turn

These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:

  • to turn 75×
  • in turn 28×
  • turn on 25×
  • turn off 23×
  • turn to 23×
  • turn the 21×
  • and turn 19×
  • the turn 14×
  • turn of 12×
  • turn it 11×

Frequently asked questions

How do you use "turn" in a sentence?
An example: "But by investing in something that gives you an opportunity at home to turn off the lights, turn off your phone (!" This page contains 20 example sentences with the word "turn" from real English texts.
What does "turn" mean?
Turn means: To make a non-linear physical movement.
What are synonyms of "turn"?
Common synonyms of "turn" include: twist, move, change, deform, direct, displace, grow, turn off. Plus 7 more synonyms.
What is "turn" in Dutch?
"turn" translates to Dutch as: omwenteling.
How many example sentences with "turn" are there?
Voorbeeldzinnen.info contains 20 example sentences with "turn", drawn from a database of millions of English sentences.

About these examples

The 20 examples on this page contain the complete word turn. Duplicate, incomplete, unusually short and technically noisy sentences are removed automatically. The definition is sourced from Wiktionary. Read more about our sources and checks on the About Voorbeeldzinnen.info page or see how to report a correction.