turn the pages
Example Sentences
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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 sometimes like to read in the bathtub, where I can luxuriate in the amniotic suds, drying my fingers on a towel to turn the pages.
From Washington Post • Jul. 31, 2022
"We hope that the Afghans will turn the pages of suffering in favor of peace and prosperity," he added on Twitter.
From Reuters • Aug. 17, 2021
How he let me turn the pages, and how he’d read my favorite parts over and over again, ’cause they were his favorite parts too.
From "The Rock and the River" by Kekla Magoon
