turn about
Example Sentences
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Unfortunately, our otherwise exceptional stay took an unexpected turn about a week after checkout.
From Salon • Feb. 22, 2025
The two bowlers got similar amounts of turn, about 2.8 degrees, though Leach got more drift – 1.56 degrees to 0.75 – and was much more accurate.
From BBC • Oct. 11, 2024
The seven U.S. export plants already in service, including Freeport LNG, can turn about 13.8 billion cubic feet of gas into LNG each day.
From Reuters • Feb. 16, 2023
The woman felt she had nowhere to turn about what happened, since Loach was a teacher at the fire academy and he was a top-ranking member of the firefighters’ union, according to her complaint.
From Washington Post • Jul. 10, 2022
All the time they were to go on bleeding, turn about, until the best knight in the world had tended them and salved them with his hands.
From "The Once and Future King" by T. H. White
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