turn upon
Example Sentences
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It’s a question the camera seems to foist in turn upon the viewer, most emphatically when it shows us Charlie, in a miserable fury, devouring and vomiting up an entire pizza.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 8, 2022
Whole tracts of the UK’s comprehensive pandemic strategy turn upon any pandemic being flu – a different type of disease to a coronavirus.
From The Guardian ● May 21, 2020
Lilly Qin, an accountant by training, coaxed her parents, both chefs, out of semiretirement to give their vast experience in Sichuan cooking one more turn upon the stage.
From Washington Post ● Jun. 18, 2019
As the days go by, they turn upon one another with accusatory hysteria.
From New York Times ● Jul. 29, 2016
And I would move, and turn upon my back, and sleep again.
From "Rebecca" by Daphne du Maurier
