turn the pages
Example Sentences
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If you turn the pages hoping for answers, you won’t find them.
From Seattle Times • Nov. 9, 2022
"We hope that the Afghans will turn the pages of suffering in favor of peace and prosperity," he added on Twitter.
From Reuters • Aug. 17, 2021
I’ve learned from a master gardener how to turn the pages my columns are printed on into pots for seedlings.
From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 26, 2020
These days, he’s so verbal that we turn the pages and he’s memorized some of the lines.
From Washington Post • Jul. 30, 2020
He observed her fingers, tipped with black nail polish, turn the pages of the book she was reading as she lounged on the fraying orange sofa.
From "Shooting Kabul" by N. H. Senzai
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