take turns
Example Sentences
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Lily doesn’t understand the rules, and I’m too lazy to read the fine print, so we take turns pressing the frog’s belly.
From Literature
Speaking of his foster brothers, Freddy and Teddy and their friends were taking turns testing their echoes, which bounced in the long stairwells.
From Literature
Two teams take turns to slide granite stones down a 45m-plus sheet of ice towards a target, with those 20kg stones accompanied on their journey by two players brushing furiously.
From BBC
Based on guidance from the National Education Goals Panel, kindergartners should be able to take turns and cooperate.
From Los Angeles Times
They took turns listening in on the radio conversations of the scientists flying over the volcano.
From Literature
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
