turn turtle
Example Sentences
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Herein lay real danger, for if the deck-load of ashes grew too heavy the Bear might turn turtle.
From The Boy With the U. S. Life-Savers by Francis Rolt-Wheeler
Pen stood apart from the spectators, watching Larry whirl, turn turtle, and perform all the aviation agonies so fascinating to the untutored.
From Penny of Top Hill Trail by Philip Lyford
The warning came none too soon, for a gust of wind hit the biplane and all but made it "turn turtle," as the saying goes.
From The Rover Boys in the Air From College Campus to the Clouds by Edward Stratemeyer
Being almost hove short, the ship could not rise quickly enough to the seas, and was besides rolling so much that she threatened to turn turtle every minute.
From A Modern Buccaneer by Rolf Boldrewood
With such a wind sucking under them might have made the boat turn turtle, Mrs. Calvert, don’t you know?
From Dorothy on a House Boat by Evelyn Raymond
