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vb. (present participle of turn away English)
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"Turning Away" is a song written by Tim Krekel, and recorded by American country music artist Crystal Gayle. It was released in June 1984 as the third single from the album Cage the Songbird. "Turning Away" was Crystal Gayle's fourteenth number one single on the country chart. The single went to number one for one week and spent a total of thirteen weeks on the country chart.
Two years later Welsh rockabilly singer Shakin' Stevens had a top 15 pop hit with the song in the United Kingdom and Ireland.
Usage examples of "turning away".
Directly below her was Hyde Park, the traffic streaming through, splitting, turning away, syphoning in different directions.
His Holiness interjected, turning away from a shrub just beginning to put forth the first buds of spring flower.
A new generation of middle-class youth, characterized by relative affluence and the advantages of education, became passionately dedicated to forms of music and other types of popular art that expressed a turning away from much that had been accepted as the American dream: material prosperity, a successful career, a happy marriage, a house set amid a green lawn and surrounded by a white picket fence.
Then turning away, the first thing I saw were the two boxes of cartridges on the cuddy-table.
He placed the lantern in a niche in the wall, never turning away the reptilian gaze of those eyes which must haunt my dreams forever.
Borja said, turning away from a last glance at the Castel Sant'Angelo.
Margie said, turning away from Joni to gaze once more at the little house that sat far back from the road, almost as if it were trying to disappear into the surrounding forest.
Already the three were turning away from the man so ruthlessly dispatched.