turn back
Example Sentences
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The winners in the live-action short film category had the microphone turned back on after initially being played off the stage.
From Salon
Hundreds of passengers flying to Dubai spent 11 hours on a flight to nowhere after their plane was turned back over Egypt.
From BBC
The CIA turned back to former Chevron personnel who understood the insular working of Maduro’s inner circle and its convoluted oil sector.
Carmen loves her 10 year-old son, but if she could turn back the clock she says she would never have become a mum.
From BBC
He turns back to the question of child rearing and cites a book he published in 2017, “The Vanishing American Adult.”
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
