Example sentences for: turned

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

  • Hawi, a Christian from Mount Lebanon turned big-city academic whose often political poetry had once made him an Arab nationalist hero, despaired over the wider Arab world's abandonment of his beloved Lebanon.

  • Only those papers whose KEEP flag is turned on are shown.

  • Critics profess surprise that Scottish director Danny Boyle's follow-up to the much-praised Trainspotting should have turned out to be a "pileup of spectacular flakiness" (Owen Gleiberman, Entertainment Weekly ). They call the plot, in which a disgruntled janitor (Ewan McGregor) kidnaps and then falls in love with his boss's daughter (Cameron Diaz), "pure, vintage fluff" (Janet Maslin, the New York Times ). Scenes involving angels, played by Delroy Lindo and Holly Hunter, are said to be especially silly.

  • If you read Faludi the answer seems to be something like--fickle and inept commercial interests suddenly turned on to the financial benefits of treating employees like paper clips.

  • The complete absence of a corpus callosum in rats exposed in utero to EtOH has been documented by several studies [ 7 8 9 ] . Because in utero exposure to EtOH affects both corpus callosum development and laterality, researchers have turned to the rat model to assess the impact of EtOH on both measures.


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