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• Grandma turns 85 tomorrow.
  • Isoäiti täyttää huomenna 85 vuotta.
• Little disappointed, then, she turned attention to "Chat of the Social World," gossip which exercised potent fascination upon the girl's intelligence.
• The understanding turns inward on itself, and reflects on its own operations.
• They say they can turn the parts in two days.
• Liverpool introduced Carroll for Spearing and were rewarded after 64 minutes when he put them back in contention. Stewart Downing blocked Jose Bosingwa's attempted clearance, which fell into the path of Carroll. He turned John Terry superbly before firing high past Cech.
• Ivory turns well.
• to turn the Iliad
• who turns a Persian tale for half a crown
• Give the handle a turn, then pull it.
• With just the turn of a shoulder she indicated the water front, where[...]lay the good ship, Mount Vernon, river packet, the black smoke already pouring from her stacks. In turn he smiled and also shrugged a shoulder.
• They took turns playing with the new toy.
• They quote a three-day turn on parts like those.
• I've had a funny turn.
• "Then you must know as well as the rest of us that there was something queer about that gentleman—something that gave a man a turn—I don't know rightly how to say it, sir, beyond this: that you felt in your marrow kind of cold and thin."
• She took a turn for the worse.
• One good turn deserves another.
• I felt that the man was of a vindictive nature, and would do me an evil turn if he found the opportunity.
• It was fortunate for his comfort, perhaps, that the man who had been chosen to accompany him was of a talkative turn, for the prisoners insisted upon hearing the story of the explosion a dozen times over, and Rufus Dawes himself had been roused to give the name of the vessel with his own lips.
• Turn so I can see your profile.
• Turn around. I want to go home.
• Turn right at the next intersection.
• They turned the river to go on the other side of the town.
• When the moon is full, a werewolf turns from a person into a wolf.
• White has the first turn in chess.
• Whose turn is it to move?
• take ~s vuorotella
• sorvata
• to turn on the radio
• The midfielder turned provider moments later, his exquisite reverse pass perfectly weighted for Cisse to race on to and slide past Stoke keeper Asmir Begovic.
• "A fine man, that Dunwody, yonder," commented the young captain, as they parted, and as he turned to his prisoner. "We'll see him on in Washington some day. He is strengthening his forces now against Mr. Benton out there.."
• Turn the knob clockwise.
• It was not far from the house; but the ground sank into a depression there, and the ridge of it behind shut out everything except just the roof of the tallest hayrick. As one sat on the sward behind the elm, with the back turned on the rick and nothing in front but the tall elms and the oaks in the other hedge, it was quite easy to fancy it the verge of the prairie with the backwoods close by.
• Turbines have been around for a long time—windmills and water wheels are early examples. The name comes from the Latin turbo, meaning vortex, and thus the defining property of a turbine is that a fluid or gas turns the blades of a rotor, which is attached to a shaft that can perform useful work.
• She turned right at the corner.
• I had occasion […] to make a somewhat long business trip to Chicago, and on my return […] I found Farrar awaiting me in the railway station. He smiled his wonted fraction by way of greeting, […], and finally leading me to his buggy, turned and drove out of town.
• I stumbled along through the young pines and huckleberry bushes. Pretty soon I struck into a sort of path that, I cal'lated, might lead to the road I was hunting for. It twisted and turned, and, the first thing I knew, made a sudden bend around a bunch of bayberry scrub and opened out into a big clear space like a lawn.
• She turned the table legs with care and precision.
• The poet's pen turns them to shapes.
• He was perfectly well turned for trade.
• His limbs how turned, how broad his shoulders spread!
• turn the bed covers;  turn the pages
• The leaves turn brown in autumn.   When I asked him for the money, he turned nasty.
• the Earth turns;  turn on the spot
• The hillside behind our house isn't generally much to look at, but once all the trees turn it's gorgeous.
• Midas made everything turn to gold.  He turned into a monster every full moon.
• At her invitation he outlined for her the succeeding chapters with terse military accuracy; and what she liked best and best understood was avoidance of that false modesty which condescends, turning technicality into pabulum.
• Ancient nomads, wishing to ward off the evening chill and enjoy a meal around a campfire, had to collect wood and then spend time and effort coaxing the heat of friction out from between sticks to kindle a flame. With more settled people, animals were harnessed to capstans or caged in treadmills to turn grist into meal.
• This milk has turned; it smells awful.
• to turn cider or wine
• The decision turns on a single fact.
• Conditions of peace certainly turn upon events of war.
• The prisoners turned on the warden.
• I'll look no more; / Lest my brain turn.
• The sight turned my stomach.
• And they made a calfe in those dayes, and offered sacrifice unto the ymage, and reioysed in the workes of theyr awne hondes. Then God turned himsilfe, and gave them up
• Turn from thy fierce wrath.