turn the pages
Example Sentences
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He wears pressure garments through Ahmedabad's heat and struggles to turn the pages of textbooks.
From BBC • Jun. 7, 2026
If you turn the pages hoping for answers, you won’t find them.
From Seattle Times • Nov. 9, 2022
You turn the pages and find, almost at random, colleagues, some of them famous, trying to be kind, uttering things like:
From New York Times • Aug. 17, 2022
I sometimes like to read in the bathtub, where I can luxuriate in the amniotic suds, drying my fingers on a towel to turn the pages.
From Washington Post • Jul. 31, 2022
Books required fingers to turn the pages and a heart to feel the emotions of the characters on the page, but the cinema was different.
From "Ophie's Ghosts" by Justina Ireland
