Example sentences for: turned

How can you use “turned” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • I had no idea what the Stones were, but it eventually turned out that they represent the Four Elements, and that the rubber tortoises, before being shot down, had left them in the care of a blue-skinned opera diva with long hoses (bellows?)

  • Milosevic, meanwhile, has turned Yugoslavia into a pariah state, its economy destroyed, its ambitions for Greater Serbia quashed.

  • And as far as cricket is concerned, Caribbean players have turned the tables on their colonial mentors and now produce some of the best players in the world, easily capable of soundly outplaying the Brits.

  • When we met for lunch the other day at Daniel's restaurant in Manhattan, Mitchell looked much younger than his 42 years, and though he was well turned out in suit and tie, I felt he would be much happier on the deck of the Pequod . Twenty-five years ago, Mitchell had a summer job running the launch at Maine's Camden Yacht Club when a yachtsman offered him a job selling wine in a shop he had just opened in a restored 18 th century mill.

  • The forum's conservatives agreed to pity its leading liberal and her "hatred," but returned to rancorous form when talk turned to Clinton's accomplishments and his administration's sale of missile technology to China.


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