turn on

Example Sentences

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Set up and turn on whatever kind of “Find my phone” app your device has before getting to the desert.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 1, 2026

“They’re not perfect,” he said, adding, “you can’t walk into someone’s phone and turn on all of these features.”

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 26, 2026

In Huerta’s case, critics just don’t buy how someone who carried Chávez’s torch decades after his death could all of a sudden supposedly turn on him.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 24, 2026

Gabriel Sherman: I guess the darkest anecdote, or one of, I should say, is the way Rupert manipulated his children to turn on each other to advance his own agenda and aims.

From Slate • Mar. 21, 2026

I notice an old oil lamp sitting on the kitchen counter, and I try to play with it to get it to turn on, but no use.

From "King and the Dragonflies" by Kacen Callender