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turned in

vb. (en-pastturn in)

Usage examples of "turned in".

Wheaton turned in place as the militiaman cried out and mingled surprise and pain.

There were a dozen ship's captains who we could have turned in for smuggling, a handful of murders we could have solved, stolen cargos that could have been recovered with just a word in the right ear at Scotland Yard.

In some cases the rails are made turned in, so that it would be impossible for a car to leave the track without the road-bed's being totally demolished.

We then proceeded to get pleasantly high and turned in for the night.

The girl turned in time to see him but too late to do anything about it, for her cloak was so sodden it weighted her to the spot.

He mulled the matter over in his mind, went back to the office and, having turned in his Crossword story, sat down to spin out a breezy half-column about milk-bottles.

The sloth turned in the direction of the sound, and for a moment seemed paralyzed with fear.

The sound echoed within the Institute, and heads turned in questioning and fear.

But he also turned in place, putting his back to the window to look hard at Salgado.

Some of the FALA infantry turned in their positions just in time to meet deadly bursts of battle rifle fire.

Hunter turned in the entryway, speaking to someone Truman couldn't see.

With a jerk, the white body rolled over so that its face was turned in our direction.

She turned in pain, twisted by pain, to look at the great carving of the uruketo above her, of her likeness high on its fin.

The priest walked a few paces into the street, stopped, turned in the direction of the sounds, listened.

And he was puzzled by the actions of his hosts who, abstaining likewise, turned in the chairs and peered steadily at a portion of the door behind Vacharn, between the table and the hall's inner end.