turn on

Example Sentences

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The characters are left navigating a world where people often turn on each other rather than challenge the systems around them.

From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 1, 2026

Hemani’s answer is that constitutional rights cannot turn on analogies that survive only because the categories have been defined so broadly that the distinctions disappear.

From Slate • Jun. 26, 2026

That might turn on its head, of course.

From BBC • Jun. 25, 2026

But when the inevitably cutthroat social dynamics of in-groups and out-groups lead the other players to turn on comedian Ron Funches, not even the ice-blooded Rausch can live with himself.

From Salon • Jun. 20, 2026

I turn on my favorite movie score playlist and wrap myself tighter in the blanket.

From "A Soft Place to Land" by Janae Marks