turn the pages
Example Sentences
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As readers turn the pages, their perspectives begin to shift.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 13, 2026
He wears pressure garments through Ahmedabad's heat and struggles to turn the pages of textbooks.
From BBC ● Jun. 7, 2026
If you turn the pages hoping for answers, you won’t find them.
From Seattle Times ● Nov. 9, 2022
You turn the pages and find, almost at random, colleagues, some of them famous, trying to be kind, uttering things like:
From New York Times ● Aug. 17, 2022
I lifted my foot and opened the book with it, using my dexterous toes to turn the pages until I got to page twenty-three.
From "Insignificant Events in the Life of a Cactus" by Dusti Bowling
