turning
- active adj.
- featuring adj.
- flexuous adj.
- operating adj.
- revolving adj.
- vertiginous adj.
- whirling adj.
- adjustment n.
- angle n.
- bow n.
- circuit n.
- conversion n.
- departure n.
- deviation n.
- divergence n.
- diversion n.
- genuflection n.
- gyration n.
- metanoia n.
- regeneration n.
- reverse n.
- revolution n.
- rotation n.
- tendency n.
- turn n.
Example Sentences
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But I’m starting to get choosier, turning down some potential assignments and not pursuing others.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 23, 2026
“This rocket turning up is something very different.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 22, 2026
Texans turning on their TVs this summer have seen Talarico talk about the importance of loving God and neighbor in a spot featuring his grandfather.
From Salon ● Aug. 22, 2026
But there will be no doubt in the minds of Goldthorpe and the LIV hierarchy that turning this into a profitable organisation will take a serious shift in outlook, and of course in spending.
From BBC ● Aug. 21, 2026
She says more stuff, I know, because she’s turning pages and pointing, but I don’t hear or see any of it.
From "Red Flags and Butterflies" by Sheryl Azzam
"We get a lot of head turnings, if people are driving by, you can tell by their eyes they're just like, what?"
From BBC ● Oct. 13, 2025
His initial Sleeping Beauty Castle was built utilizing plywood, PVC, wood turnings and cast resin veneer, but he has since updated the structure with largely polyurethane foam boards and 3D-printed materials.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 13, 2024
“He didn’t need any instruction really. He just took control, flown us around, made some turnings and basic maneuvers,” Hughes said.
From Seattle Times ● Feb. 6, 2024
Once I adopted the Giovanni-Hans constraint, I saw that each of the four wheels had to follow a concentric circular path, and these paths had identical radii in both extreme right and extreme left turnings.
From New York Times ● Aug. 13, 2012
“Who knows the inner turnings of your name, Cinder?”
From "The Name of the Wind" by Patrick Rothfuss
