VERB
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force to go away; used both with concrete and metaphoric meanings
drive away bad thoughts
The supermarket had to turn back many disappointed customers
dispel doubts
Drive away potential burglars -
retrace one's course
The hikers got into a storm and had to turn back -
hold back, as of a danger or an enemy; check the expansion or influence of
Check the growth of communism in South East Asia
Turn back the tide of communism
Arrest the downward trend
Contain the rebel movement -
go back to a previous state
We reverted to the old rules - turn inside out or upside down
How To Use turn back In A Sentence
- Similarly, remove the Return button from the Main Edit JSP, since we will return back to the previous mode using the portal framework.
- The pilot tried to turn back but the jet exploded and a large fireball ripped into a crowded residential area.
- As I turn back towards home, my mobile phone beeps into life. A new year greeting sent from a different time zone, halfway across the world.
- The supermarket had to turn back many disappointed customers
- According to the map we missed our turn back there.
- But belike this duskiness will clear presently, and then at least we shall know whither we be going; and we may either turn back, or seek some other shelter, for I know the lake well; I know, I know. The Water of the Wondrous Isles
- In this scene she is explaining to him the knife 's power: the ability to turn back time. Times, Sunday Times
- I walk over to the speakerphone to shut it off and turn back to the canvas.
- After months spent retraining the army Baghdad must show that it can turn back the tide. Times, Sunday Times
- I was half tempted to pick up a nearby acorn and chuck it at his head, in a feeble attempt to render him unconscious, thereby allowing myself to return back to my sleeping bag.
