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turned around

vb. (en-pastturn around)

Usage examples of "turned around".

In utter disbelief he turned around, jumped off the belt onto the ground.

The railway turned around the sides of the mountains, and did not attempt to violate nature by taking the shortest cut from one point to another.

We pulled ourselves together and turned around to get the cover off the motor box.

She turned around and glared with unseeing eyes in the direction of the red flannel shirt and the Santa Claus cap.

He had paused twice before the door of the apartment building and then had turned around and gone away again.

The path turned around the shoulder of a hill and Vickers stopped and looked at the house standing on the hill and felt his knees go wobbly beneath him and he looked away, quickly, and brought his eyes back slowly to make sure it was not imagination, that the house was really there.

For this unique student, and contrary to learning theory (on the surface), it needed to be turned around--play first, then work.

And I stopped, like everyone does, and called myself a dope, like everyone does, and I might have turned around and retraced my steps like anyone would -- except for the thought that suddenly froze me in my tracks.

I turned around on my side, and from sheer exhaustion fell into a heavy but troubled sleep.

Kolfmann turned around in horror, but I was the one who was really horrified.