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turned down

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

Usage examples of "turned down".

Barclay turned down the long corridor to the power plant, but already before him Norris and Van Wall were racing down.

Having your offer of a good time sexually turned down is the &quot.

The wide mobile mouth turned down, exposing the edge of sharklike teeth.

The public endured an unpopular, but energy-(and life-) saving 55-mile-an-hour national speed limit, in addition to well-meaning, if somewhat condescending lectures from President Jimmy Carter, who characteristically sported a cardigan sweater on TV appearances because he had turned down the White House thermostat as an energy-conserving gesture.

The Mexican president not only turned down the offer, but he refused even to see President Polk's emissary.

They are squinty grey-blue eyes, turned down at the edges as if he is tired of the world, with Stygian pupils.

Kingston turned down the audio monitor as he picked up the phone and punched the internal extension.

His hose of red cloth vanished into boots of untanned leather, laced in front and turned down at the knees, and completed in him the general appearance of a mercenary in time of peace, in spite of which the six nobles, in that place of paradoxes, bared their heads anew, and stood in attitudes of deferential attention.

Domingo removed some of his outer clothing, turned down the intensity of the cabin lights and the various displays and settled himself to try to get some sleep if possible.

Suliya who'd turned down her family's urgent pleas to return home, who took lessons without argument, and who still cried over a man who'd had so much integrity he'd died for someone he'd once taken orders to kill.

Lament an aesthetic that didn't engage itself enough to leave more classic roles for our edification, that turned down Patton, Thornton.

It was about an African-American student who applies for entrance to a prestigious university and is turned down because of his color (this was long before the days of affirmative action).

Nick placidly agreed, and darkness had long fallen, and a great many buns been consumed, when at length the procession turned down the street toward the pension, headed by Nick with the sleeping Geordie on his shoulder, while the others, speechless with fatigue and food, hung heavily on Susy.