How to use "turn" in sentences with meaning in English and Hindi

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Example sentences for "turn" in popular movie and book plots

  • Events take a bizarre turn when the group of saucer enthusiasts is faced with a tsunami.  - The Wanderer (Leiber novel)
  • Even then, they are expected to shield any fugitives from the law, or at the least not to turn over fugitives to the officials.  - Wuxia
  • Unable to turn back, he reaches for the valve and closes it before he dies.  - U-571 (film)
  • Mort in turn starts to become more like Death, adopting his mannerisms and aspects of his personality, while his own is slowly overridden.  - Mort
  • Gandalf visits Saruman, offering him a chance to turn away from evil.  - The Lord of the Rings
  • The Soldiers kill the Four Kings, who turn out to have been Endymion's guardians who defected in their past lives.  - Sailor Moon
  • Another woman kisses Camilla, and they turn and smile at Diane.  - Mulholland Drive (film)
  • This rack is tied to the woman as Biggles pretends to turn a lever, but it has no effect whatsoever.  - The Spanish Inquisition (Monty Python)
  • He declares that in six months he could turn Eliza into a lady by teaching her to speak properly.  - My Fair Lady
  • Teg manages to turn the tables on the Matres, and rescues the Mother Superior and her party.  - Heretics of Dune
  • Shortly after they move into their new home, the sardonic jabs between them turn into full-blown quarrels.  - Gone with the Wind (novel)
  • This curses Mina with vampirism and changes her but does not completely turn her into a vampire.  - Dracula
  • She witnesses Woodrue use the formula to turn a diminutive convict into a hulking monstrosity dubbed "Bane".  - Batman & Robin (film)
  • Sandy in turn tells him of a wonderful dream she had about robins that she interprets as a sign of hope for humanity.  - Blue Velvet (film)
  • Schub has put the miracle on hiatus, but announces that they can easily turn the town against Hapgood by blaming him for it.  - Anyone Can Whistle
  • Two policemen come to Alex's rescue, but turn out to be Dim and Billyboy, a former rival gang leader.  - A Clockwork Orange (novel)

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