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
He had only to complete this night, to keep the story out of the reach of the destroyers for a few more hours, and their witchery would turn, upon itself, upon them.
From "Ceremony:" by Leslie Marmon Silko
