turns on
Example Sentences
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She said things could get tougher with more "twists and turns" on the horizon for the market.
From BBC • May 14, 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
“A light turns on in her office so she knows to come get us.”
From "A Mango-Shaped Space" by Wendy Mass
