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turns down

vb. (en-third-person singularturn down)

Usage examples of "turns down".

He seizes opportunities to get what he wants, and turns down opportunities that other men would unhesitatingly grasp.

Then he turns down the wick and puts out the single lamp in the study.

He closes the door and turns down the corridor toward his quarters, followed by another pair of armed guards.

She turns down the First Harbor Way East, and he follows, finally drawing up beside her once they are well out of sight of those who might have witnessed her scolding of him.

Lorn slips toward the single lamp by the bed and turns down the wick.

As the Buick turns down the road from the hospital, Jeremiah keeps asking why Earl is gone.

Some time later, Nariss turns down Darth Vader's request to hunt Han Solo and Leia Organa.

He takes his ten-spot from the bartender, turns down the suggestion that he stay for a beer, and strolls back out into the fog.

She turns down his offer to stay as part of the household, but accepts an apartment in his bank and a similar stipend to what she has been receiving.

Her eyebrows bunch together, and she has tight little wads of muscle at the corners of her mouth, and her mouth turns down.