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turn a corner

vb. (context idiomatic English) (alternative form of turn the corner English)

Usage examples of "turn a corner".

When she had reached a safe distance and was about to turn a corner into a second hallway she stopped and bracing herself with her hands waited, thinking to shake off a trembling fit of weakness that had come upon her.

We'll walk along any empty street we can find, and if we see anyone coming, we'll turn a corner.

All you have to do, if you think you're being shadowed, is to turn a corner and stop.

When Bruce moved sideways, the line had to turn a corner at the neck of the hole.

Like sometimes I'm walking on the street and I think of someone I haven't seen maybe, in five years and I turn a corner and there's that person walking towards me.

Out of the vault, searching for instant-elsewhere booths, turn a corner and-the Norn!

However, as soon as you put the car in motion, and particularly when you touch the brakes, turn a corner, or go up a gentle slope, everything slides off.

You can wander through the streets on a Friday night, as I did now, and never know when you turn a corner whether you are going to bump into a group of tony revellers in dinner jackets or a passle of idle young yobboes who might decide to fall upon you and carve their initials in your forehead for purposes of passing amusement.

Then she'd turn a corner (or else he would) and the noise would not simply fade but vanish altogether, leaving only the pad of her own soles on the cold stone to keep her company.

Then you walk down a street and find Hermes playing in an Athens alley, or you turn a corner and meet Athena on the back of a donkey.