Examples of turn away in a Sentence
using tree branches, the campers were able to turn away the charging fox, which was apparently rabid
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Hermanos has rented 26 rooms at a motel by the airport to help homeless and migrant families; several, like Perez, were turned away at the airport after trying to self-deport.
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Lauren Costantino, Miami Herald, 4 Apr. 2026
For Chappel, this was the first point when policy turned away from universality and toward a politicized idea of deservedness.
—Trevor Jackson, The New York Review of Books, 4 Apr. 2026
But they were turned away by the guards, who told them that the ward’s detainees had been transferred elsewhere.
—Cora Engelbrecht, New Yorker, 3 Apr. 2026
More chatting, the camera turns away to shoot some B-roll.
—Literary Hub, 3 Apr. 2026
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Lauren Costantino, Miami Herald, 4 Apr. 2026
For Chappel, this was the first point when policy turned away from universality and toward a politicized idea of deservedness.
—Trevor Jackson, The New York Review of Books, 4 Apr. 2026
But they were turned away by the guards, who told them that the ward’s detainees had been transferred elsewhere.
—Cora Engelbrecht, New Yorker, 3 Apr. 2026
More chatting, the camera turns away to shoot some B-roll.
—Literary Hub, 3 Apr. 2026
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“Turn away.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/turn%20away. Accessed 5 Apr. 2026.
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