turn off
Example Sentences
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The lights in the Adelanto ICE Processing Center never turn off, which is enough to keep most awake.
From Los Angeles Times
The network uses old tankers that sometimes falsely run under a country’s flag, conduct ship-to-ship crude transfers to conceal its origin and turn off transponders that give up their locations.
There's no law that specifies when Christmas lights must be turned off.
From BBC
We're told to turn off our phones - such is the secrecy around the production of Ukraine's Flamingo cruise missile.
From BBC
The machines were turned off by the company during the press conference, but were turned back on about an hour after it ended, according to workers.
From Los Angeles Times
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