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turning down

vb. (present participle of turn down English)

Usage examples of "turning down".

For once, we left a town without anybody after us, even though the Baron wasn't pleased about your turning down that job.

I moaned, going out the door and turning down the hall towards the residence wing.

The cook, more leisurely, was still busy in the kitchen and, if she missed the other, would only suppose her to be turning down the beds.

She started spending nights at the studio, claiming fatigue, turning down my offers to pick her up and drive her home.

Then he reached out and touched the delicate flower that was already turning down from the warmth of my hand.

Then he crossed to the wall and reached into the sound panel, turning down all the sound.

Two or three times she lost her way by turning down the wrong corridor and was obliged to ramble up and down until she found the right one.

At this, turning down the cloaths and viewing the field of battle by the glimmer of a dying taper, he saw plainly my thighs, shift, and sheets, all stained with what he readily took for a virgin effusion, proceeding from his last half-penetration: convinc'd, and transported at which, nothing could equal his joy and exultation.