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"Turn back" in a Sentence (12 examples)
Realising he had forgotten his briefcase, he turned back and re-entered the office.
Turning back, then, toward the basement staircase, she began to grope her way through blinding darkness, but had taken only a few uncertain steps when, of a sudden, she stopped short and for a little stood like a stricken thing, quite motionless save that she quaked to her very marrow in the grasp of a great and enervating fear.
The barrage of machine-gun fire turned back the encroaching soldiers.
Pilton Yard, the Lynton & Barnstaple headquarters, has been taken over by a fur trading firm, and would-be trespassers to the old engine-shed are turned back by the pungent odour of heaps of carcases.
He stopped drinking for a couple of years, but now he has turned back to his old ways.
Once we take this decision, there's no turning back.
Welcome to your life There's no turning back Even while we sleep We will find you
The soldiers turned back all the refugees at the frontier.
In Autumn we normally turn the clocks back one hour.
I love that song: turn back to it!
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When you make the bed, please always turn the sheet back over the blanket.
We turn not back the silks upon the merchants, When we have soiled them; nor the remainder viands.
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