How to Use U-turn in a Sentence

U-turn

noun
  • So Galas pulled a U-turn to return to the club and was pulled over in the process.
    — Peter Breen, Chicago Tribune, 16 Nov. 2024
  • Sweatt then made a U-turn at a high rate of speed and struck the victim in the road.
    — Marc Fortier, NBC News, 8 Apr. 2024
  • The cat made a deft U-turn, scampered out of the trap, and vanished.
    — Jonathan Franzen, The New Yorker, 25 Dec. 2023
  • This marked a U-turn from the first two years of the pandemic.
    — Rachel Lerman, Anchorage Daily News, 9 Apr. 2023
  • What’s the biggest design U-turn of the past two decades?
    — The Editors, Robb Report, 30 Mar. 2025
  • This blink-and-you’ll-miss-it shack on the side of Granbury Road is worth making the U-turn for.
    — Sydni Walker, Dallas News, 18 Sep. 2023
  • The Durango made a U-turn as soon as the light turned green.
    — Grethel Aguila, Miami Herald, 27 Feb. 2025
  • The Durango made a U-turn as soon as the light turned green.
    — Grethel Aguila, Miami Herald, 3 May 2024
  • The driver later made a U-turn and went the wrong way on the freeway.
    — Cameron MacDonald, The Mercury News, 16 Mar. 2024
  • Darnold's vehicle then made a U-turn and left the scene.
    — Andrea Vacchiano, Fox News, 29 June 2023
  • Jen then did a U-turn by adding beachy waves to her 2024 hair repertoire.
    — Fiona Embleton, Glamour, 2 Aug. 2024
  • Once that happens, the bull shark pulls an abrupt U-turn and charts a wide course around the massive croc.
    — Steven Hill, Field & Stream, 27 July 2023
  • Murray slaps on his police lights and siren and makes a sharp U-turn.
    — Briah Lumpkins, Charlotte Observer, 6 Mar. 2025
  • Because of that, the plane was forced to make a quick U-turn back to the boarding bridge where SLC police were called.
    — Andy Kalmowitz / Jalopnik, Quartz, 22 Mar. 2024
  • But over the course of its third term, the party made a U-turn and hardened its stance on rapprochement with the West.
    — Democrat-Gazette Staff From Wire Reports, arkansasonline.com, 27 Oct. 2024
  • The policy U-turn in Washington hits at the heart of the dilemma.
    — Ellie Cook, Newsweek, 18 Dec. 2024
  • After the 18-year-old driver made a U-turn, Chandra stayed with them.
    — Jonathan Edwards, Washington Post, 19 July 2023
  • The driver made a U-turn, tracing back toward the rapper.
    — Emily Palmer, Peoplemag, 26 July 2023
  • The car then made a U-turn, and its driver got out and started shooting at the teens, who took off running.
    — City News Service, San Diego Union-Tribune, 31 Jan. 2025
  • The car then made a U-turn, and its driver got out and started shooting at the teens, who took off running.
    — City News Service, San Diego Union-Tribune, 21 Dec. 2023
  • Kizzee made a U-turn in front of deputies, dropped his bike on the sidewalk and ran, according to the department.
    — Ben Poston, Los Angeles Times, 10 June 2023
  • Moulton was seen making a fast U-turn over a curb and pulling over on a side street before pulling Grabow out of his car.
    — Robert Salonga, The Mercury News, 26 Jan. 2024
  • This is quite the U-turn, even for the notoriously boom-to-bust oil market.
    — Matt Egan, CNN, 5 Oct. 2023
  • The giant swordfish made a hard run on the surface and then did a U-turn, swimming directly at the boat.
    — Dac Collins, Outdoor Life, 22 Nov. 2023
  • The most her father can do now is go past the privacy curtain to the doorway, then, at the doorway, make a slow U-turn back to the bed.
    — Weike Wang, The Atlantic, 26 Oct. 2024
  • Denver has whipped a U-turn and its defense is starting to perform.
    — Sam Farmer, Los Angeles Times, 16 Nov. 2023
  • Farmer: The Broncos whipped a U-turn this season, going 5-1 since starting 1-5.
    — Gary Klein, Los Angeles Times, 5 Dec. 2023
  • The vehicle made a U-turn and passed Salas-Keen’s home a second time before backing up.
    — Rosalio Ahumada, Sacramento Bee, 27 Jan. 2024
  • In response, the driver abruptly made a U-turn in the grassy area off the right shoulder, the trooper’s dashboard camera footage shows.
    — Staff Report, Hartford Courant, 1 Apr. 2025
  • Instead of offering viewers a glimpse of the big reveal in each episode, we get walloped with a U-turn over the course of two or three episodes.
    — Amanda Whiting, Vulture, 8 Nov. 2024

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