turn up

Example Sentences

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"When everybody turns up at uni, they're like, 'I'm going to make video games in my basement, come up with this amazing idea and sell it for millions'," he says.

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The fact that hundreds of thousands of people, including those who didn't vote for her party, turned up for the funeral would be seen as a reflection of her popularity among the masses.

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"Everyone turned up expecting a win, maybe a comfortable one, and it wasn't that," he said.

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When people caught wind that the Ridgerunner guys were holding a meeting at a nearby fast food joint, dozens turned up to confront them.

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But, he said, there was a paradoxical element of hope in the fact that white sharks were turning up for sale.

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