Example sentences for: turned

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

  • The publication says royal insiders are worried about an apparent decline in Charles' short-term memory and say the prince has turned to a specialist for help.

  • And then the worm turned.

  • He got the House to investigate charges of bribery involving his rivals Pomeroy and Clarke--which in fact turned up some damning evidence against them.

  • The Library of America produced a fat 1,500-page volume of Jefferson some years ago, but Jefferson's writings turned out to be a shapeless heap of private letters and peculiar jottings intermixed with an occasional manifesto of immortal grandeur--and to make your way through them unaided was nearly impossible.

  • Most notably, in 1971 he turned down the Best Actor Oscar for his title role in Patton , calling the Academy Awards "a two-hour meat parade."


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