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turned back

vb. 1 (en-simple pastturn back) 2 (past participle of turn back English)

Usage examples of "turned back".

He replied with his usual eerie silence and in a moment, when he turned back to Roymer, there was surprise in the transmitted thought.

Brown petals, alive and sick, and the thorns turned back on themselves, growing into the stems, killing.

He went about it to the exclusion of all else, and there was a good reason behind everything he did from the moment he stepped out into the street until the time when he turned back again at evening.

Then she turned back to her own work, finishing the table of contents.

He stopped himself and turned back toward the kitchen table, picking up the TV tray and shoving it into the trash under the sink, cramming the empty Coke bottle in after it and wiping his hand across the table to clean up a smear of enchilada sauce.

He stood for a moment, his eyes on the light but his vision blurred with tears, then he turned back into the Kassala.

The O-human went down hard, then the dark form turned back toward Byrne, who was just struggling back to his feet from where he had fallen near the skimmer's front fan.

He stood for a moment, looking out across the valley, then turned back to her again.

He drew in a deep breath and let it out slowly, shifted in the chair and finally turned back to face her.

Tirun turned back to com and Haral turned to the main board and systems-checks again.

I would compel them to wear, not only their collars, but all their clothes, turned back to frantic—.

A hard lump formed in his throat and he quickly turned back to the shuttlecraft as his chest constricted, taking a deep breath.

But, as soon as the sun was in the ascendant, by common consent they turned back, and whoso met them, garlanded as they were with oak-leaves, and carrying store of fragrant herbs or flowers in their hands might well have said:—.