How to Use turn against in a Sentence

turn against

verb
  • The public has turned against him.
    — ABC News, 8 Feb. 2026
  • It can also be turned against the people it is meant to serve.
    — Alain Berset, Time, 6 July 2026
  • The math turns against you the moment a balance lingers, though.
    — Angelica Leicht, CBS News, 29 June 2026
  • Ehrenreich felt the tide turn against him.
    — Jackson McHenry, Vulture, 29 Apr. 2026
  • The weather turned against us, the guides disappeared.
    — Elizabeth Cantrell, Travel + Leisure, 7 Apr. 2026
  • And by this point, the cultural tide had also turned against his earnestness.
    — Tope Folarin, The Atlantic, 22 July 2026
  • But on both issues, public sentiment has turned against him.
    — Michelle L. Price, Chicago Tribune, 23 Feb. 2026
  • Your entire target audience and all of your consumers have turned against you.
    — Tabitha Parent, PEOPLE, 8 June 2026
  • At the same time, other company leaders are turning against the tech.
    — Joe Wilkins, Futurism, 1 July 2026
  • But in recent years, public opinion has largely turned against the Roval.
    — Alex Zietlow, Charlotte Observer, 26 Jan. 2026
  • In some regards, the tide may finally be turning against Big Tech.
    — Olivier Sylvain, Fortune, 16 May 2026
  • They can be regarded as genuine patriots if they are assumed never to turn against the state.
    — Isaac Chotiner, New Yorker, 18 June 2026
  • Apart, of course, from Johan Cruyff’s famous turn against Sweden.
    — Michael Cox, New York Times, 23 July 2026
  • While sentiment has turned against pricey software stocks, Cramer said not to trade around the stock given its strong business.
    — Alexa Lomonaco, CNBC, 1 May 2026
  • Repressions mount as Russians turn against the Ukraine conflict.
    — Vladimir Kara-Murza, Washington Post, 26 May 2026
  • But polling shows that public sentiment is turning against ICE.
    — Brian Bennett, Time, 26 Jan. 2026
  • The common denominator in most of his classmates being turned against him is, of course, himself.
    — Ryan Lattanzio, IndieWire, 23 Mar. 2026
  • Around 2010, public sentiment turned against the Democrats.
    — Linley Sanders, Los Angeles Times, 18 Feb. 2026
  • The big question is whether enough rural voters will turn against Abbott to give Hinojosa a shot.
    — Marc Levy, Los Angeles Times, 23 July 2026
  • People around the world in recent years have turned against all kinds of institutions, not just higher education.
    — Rose Horowitch, The Atlantic, 27 June 2026
  • The courtroom was packed — not only with Deckinga’s friends and family, but neighbors who turned against him after his arrest.
    — Meredith Colias-Pete, Chicago Tribune, 28 Apr. 2026
  • Technology, culture, influence, status and all of these can turn against you from one day to another.
    — Bernardo Campelo, Forbes.com, 20 Mar. 2026
  • The costs of America’s turn against immigrants are now quantifiable and growing.
    — Andrew Tisch, Forbes.com, 28 May 2026
  • The same trait that makes the New World screwworm so destructive to livestock is the one scientists are now trying to turn against it.
    — Ethan Stone, AZCentral.com, 17 June 2026
  • Officers shot and killed two American citizens, and public opinion has turned against it.
    — David A. Graham, The Atlantic, 12 Feb. 2026
  • Southgate’s confident assertion that the tide of history was turning against bigotry now looks utopian, or even naïve.
    — Jon Allsop, New Yorker, 18 June 2026
  • The new commission was initially supportive of Bowden-Lewis, but soon turned against her.
    — Edmund H. Mahony, Hartford Courant, 6 Feb. 2026
  • In recent weeks, Starmer's own Labour lawmakers and parliamentary party began to turn against him.
    — Brittney Melton, NPR, 22 June 2026
  • The series was conceived as an exploration of belief, belonging, and how the search for meaning can be twisted and turned against the very people pursuing it.
    — Jp Mangalindan, Time, 13 Mar. 2026
  • And in wartime, the necessary work can only be done by people inside the establishment turning against the establishment.
    — Sachin H. Jain, Forbes.com, 31 July 2026

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