turn upon
Example Sentences
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It’s a question the camera seems to foist in turn upon the viewer, most emphatically when it shows us Charlie, in a miserable fury, devouring and vomiting up an entire pizza.
From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 8, 2022
Whole tracts of the UK’s comprehensive pandemic strategy turn upon any pandemic being flu – a different type of disease to a coronavirus.
From The Guardian • May 21, 2020
As the days go by, they turn upon one another with accusatory hysteria.
From New York Times • Jul. 29, 2016
A poem is an environment in which inspiration comes and goes; the moods shift, the mind can turn upon itself.
From The New Yorker • Apr. 6, 2015
Each time they followed his example, he retreated with concern and racked his brain for some new stratagem that would enable him to turn upon them scornfully again.
From "Catch-22" by Joseph Heller
