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take turns

VERB
  1. do something in turns
    We take turns on the night shift

How To Use take turns In A Sentence

  • On school days the children s parents had to take turns bringing in turf for the school fire.
  • Approximately 20 guys, from young teenagers to 30-somethings take turns working out their uprocks, flares and headspins to yelps and handclaps of support.
  • United are a circus troupe where performers take turns to do their bit. Times, Sunday Times
  • One at a time, the largest bulls take turns charging the lions. Christianity Today
  • Back on the land, ferret badgers take turns with otters, ground squirrels and crab-eating macaques to stalk out their territory on the numerous white sandy beaches.
  • The male and female birds take turns in sitting on the eggs.
  • Take turns to roll the dice and gradually build your beetle (you must start with the body).
  • Sammy is definitely interested, but she is naturally slower at everything (having never done it before and being a over a year younger which is eons to a toddler) and even when I have them take turns the outcome is that Sammy does very little and then it is Alex's turn again. Archive 2009-01-01
  • We'd take turns staying up and listening for prowlers or break-ins.
  • The whole pack is then placed face down in the centre of the table and the players take turns to draw cards one at a time from the top of the pack.
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