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synonyms for right-about

  • angle
  • change
  • corner
  • curve
  • departure
  • direction
  • reversal
  • round
  • shift
  • spin
  • spiral
  • swing
  • trend
  • twist
  • wind
  • about-face
  • bend
  • bias
  • bow
  • branch
  • circle
  • circuit
  • circulation
  • circumvolution
  • cycle
  • detour
  • deviation
  • drift
  • flection
  • flexure
  • fork
  • gyration
  • gyre
  • heading
  • hook
  • pirouette
  • pivot
  • quirk
  • retroversion
  • reverse
  • reversion
  • roll
  • rotation
  • tack
  • tendency
  • turnabout
  • turning
  • twisting
  • wheel
  • whirl
  • winding
  • yaw
  • changeabout
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antonyms for right-about

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  • failure
  • inability
  • miss
  • stagnation
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How to use right-about in a sentence

What need to look to right or left when you are swallowing up free mile after mile of dizzying road?
THE JOYOUS ADVENTURES OF ARISTIDE PUJOLWILLIAM J. LOCKE
Mrs. Wurzel was quite right; they had been supplied, regardless of cost, from Messrs. Rochet and Stole's well-known establishment.
THE PIT TOWN CORONET, VOLUME I (OF 3)CHARLES JAMES WILLS
She is quite true, but not wise, and your left hand must not know what your right hand is doing.
CHECKMATEJOSEPH SHERIDAN LE FANU
In Spain he was regarded as the right arm of the ultra-clericals and a possible supporter of Carlism.
THE PHILIPPINE ISLANDSJOHN FOREMAN
The thought seemed to produce the dreaded object, for next moment a large hummock appeared right ahead.
THE GIANT OF THE NORTHR.M. BALLANTYNE
We are apt to think of these little ones as doing right only when under compulsion: but this is far from the truth.
CHILDREN'S WAYSJAMES SULLY
The little crowd and the boats on the beach were right under them and no one paid any attention or seemed to be in a hurry.
GALLIPOLI DIARY, VOLUME IIAN HAMILTON
But it seems to me that with adolescence comes the right to knowledge and the right of judgment.
THE SALVAGING OF CIVILISATIONH. G. (HERBERT GEORGE) WELLS
He asked what time was usually spent in determining between right and wrong, and what degree of expense?
GULLIVER'S TRAVELSJONATHAN SWIFT
The left heel followed like lightning, and the right paw also slipped, letting the bear again fall heavily on the ice below.
THE GIANT OF THE NORTHR.M. BALLANTYNE
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