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turn abruptly and face the other way, either physically or metaphorically
He turned around to face his opponent
My conscience told me to turn around before I made a mistake
How To Use swing around In A Sentence
- He turned his gaze back to Sarah and her friends who were quietly indulging themselves in a game of whist whilst the party was in full swing around them.
- Establish a firm footing and swing around with the casualty, keeping as much rigidity in the neck as possible.
- Its passengers swing around like boxed chickens in the back of a livestock lorry on a mountain pass.
- Fit young men and women operate touring pedicabs, for example, to swing around the main points of interest.
- Then, suddenly, he -- for it was a man -- swayed back, with a hitch to his skin trousers, and began to sing a chanty, such as men lift when they swing around the capstan circle and the sea snorts in their ears: An Odyssey of the North
- When the car started to swing around again, I made myself steer in the direction of the skid.
- Meanwhile, up north, you'll likely get a lull around midnight, then the wind will swing around and you'll get strong * northwesterly* wind in the pre-dawn hours to chase after this second storm, although not as intense as the southeasterlies. KOMO - News - Top Stories
