turns on
Example Sentences
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The small light that turns on when the glasses are recording appears dim in daylight and often goes unnoticed, he said.
From BBC • May 13, 2026
Critique the exposed hems as she turns on the runway.
From Los Angeles Times • May 11, 2026
The legal question turns on the meaning of the term “general election.”
From Slate • May 8, 2026
Virginia Woolf complained that Dickens compensated for weak plotting by “throwing another handful of people on the fire,” but the plot of Dickens’s 1865 novel, “Our Mutual Friend,” turns on death by water.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 10, 2026
He turns on his heel and faces the class at attention, like a soldier.
From "The Boy Who Dared" by Susan Campbell Bartoletti
