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taking turns

vb. (present participle of take turns English)

Usage examples of "taking turns".

It took a long time for the dolphins to answer the report' sequence: Readis and Kami ended up taking turns at the Bell rope.

It is much harder when I am fencing all the time, instead of taking turns and watching the others.

If a bloke died on the way or was bayoneted because he couldn't keep up, we had to carry his rice bag, taking turns between us.

Besides, it was the stronger men in the Town-Ho that had been divided into gangs, taking turns at the pumps.

A white man's at the wheel, another beside him, both men taking turns drinking from a bottle.

Shortly thereafter we left Bong-Bong and Fidel and one of the duffels behind, the four of us taking turns humping the two other duffels.

The bogeymen of our young dreams were the mythical undead cheese-complexioned Plant workers, their wispy hair popping out of their skulls in tufts and clumps while they chewed sticks of spearmint gum, taking turns to look out the Plants' one porthole window and telling Daisy and me tales of braziered cities, too-hot suns, and all the fish in the world floating belly up in the seas.