How To Use turning away In A Sentence
- Turning away under a strong attack is a sure recipe for defeat.
- Something anodyne about turning away from sin and rejecting evil. Times, Sunday Times
- Turning away from sheer, rocky walls, the deep ultramarine seems to envelop you and pin you back against the rock face.
- Turning away, he tried to assess the impact of this revelation, feeding the information into the equation. AMAGANSETT
- More and more of the super-rich are, apparently, turning away from the best hotels and booking their annual break at the seaside, in cottages without television, DVDs, computers or any sort of electronic wizardry.
- In the early 1950s, Italian cinema was turning away from the politically charged movement known as neorealism, with its harsh, documentary-like depiction of daily life. GreenCine Daily
- Beyond Mr Jefferson's high black hat, through those tangled dew-drops of flame, Mr Goosevort saw golden hair glide softly through the oasis of bodies gathered vaguely round the stage, Mr Umberto and Mrs. Jefferson laughed again together, and Mr Howle's mournful ululation could be heard adrift a lake of rabble... golden hair turning away and fluttering into the shadow of a winding stairway. Mr Goosevort
- She resolutely ignores me, making a theatrical show of turning away and yawning.
- In higher education, she perceives a turning away from learning in favor of credentialism.
- Turning away from childish games, she used to hide herself in retired chambers, that she might give herself up more completely to prayer; and by constantly reading the deeds of holy men, she was so inflamed with the desire of a more austere life, that she even laid a plan with her brother to run away from their father's house and to betake themselves to a desert place. 29 December -- St Thomas of Canterbury
