How To Use Turning away In A Sentence
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Turning away under a strong attack is a sure recipe for defeat.
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Something anodyne about turning away from sin and rejecting evil.
Times, Sunday Times
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Turning away from sheer, rocky walls, the deep ultramarine seems to envelop you and pin you back against the rock face.
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Turning away, he tried to assess the impact of this revelation, feeding the information into the equation.
AMAGANSETT
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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.
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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
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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
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She resolutely ignores me, making a theatrical show of turning away and yawning.
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In higher education, she perceives a turning away from learning in favor of credentialism.
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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
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She saw his glance flick down to her mouth, then abruptly he was turning away.
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Overnight, a group of residents formed a human barricade, turning away dozens of lorries trying to deposit hundreds of tonnes of hard core on their doorsteps.
Times, Sunday Times
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Matthew 7:13-14 God predestines no one to go to hell; for this, a willful turning away from God a mortal sin is necessary, and persistence in it until the end.
Archive 2006-12-01
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If you notice fish turning away or flaring from a lure, chances are it's too bright and/or too large.
Field and Stream Guide: 50 Ways to Catch Spring Trout
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Turning away under a strong attack is a sure recipe for defeat.
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Just as the Renaissance involved a general turning away from spirit and towards nature, so art itself became less spiritualised and more naturalised.
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Turning away I closed my eyes and released a sigh of relief.
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“God predestines no one to go to hell; for this, a willful turning away from God a mortal sin is necessary, and persistence in it until theend.”
The Volokh Conspiracy » Ann Coulter, Christian Chauvinist:
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The young man saw something akin to panic in the older gentleman's expression and allowed him to recompose himself by turning away before continuing, ‘Perhaps you ought to ask me whether I love your daughter, sir.’
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In characteristic fashion Heidegger interprets such good moods as a turning away from the burdensome character of being.
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Kinda makes you wonder about all those stories about FEMA actually turning away help.
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Are we turning away locals and visitors because of expensive and inadequate car parking, and an untidy cluttered High Street?
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Knowles frowned, turning away to pour them a brace of sherries.
RIOT
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Turning away from the screen, he sifted through the pile of loose-leaf binders.
The Omega Theory
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Every word stops me turning away and closing my eyes, to block it out, to let me retreat into sleep.
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Overnight, a group of residents formed a human barricade, turning away dozens of lorries trying to deposit hundreds of tonnes of hard core on their doorsteps.
Times, Sunday Times
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Overnight, a group of residents formed a human barricade, turning away dozens of lorries trying to deposit hundreds of tonnes of hard core on their doorsteps.
Times, Sunday Times
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She licked her lips and he let a brief flicker of disgust cross his face, rolling his eyes and turning away.
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Consumers are turning away from credit cards.
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I shook my head, turning away from the body that she held limply.
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Yet agents and buying agents, with unusual coyness and some desperation, are reporting a lack of stock and turning away buyers.
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Poor performance explains why retail investors have been turning away from ethical funds.
Times, Sunday Times
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I make a very clear distinction in my writing between pedophilia and homosexuality, noting that adult males who sexually victimize young boys are either pedophilic or heterosexual, and that in my research I have not found homosexual men turning away from adult partners to children ...
Alvin McEwen: AOL article demonstrates the deception of anti-gay bad science
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Instead, the cosmetics market has changed: consumers have been turning away from midmarket luxury brands such as L'Oreal's Ralph Lauren and Armani perfumes, either in favor of cheaper brands or just not buying these items at all -- in fact, exactly the kind of midmarket squeeze that has caused problems for Mr. Rose's M&S.
To Weather This Storm, Airlines
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The figure reacted as if she had transformed into a ghost, turning away and moving back in the direction they had come with considerably more speed than they had used in their approach.
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This new age approach to clubbing is paying dividends, with the club turning away hundreds of people every weekend.
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It wasn't long, though, before customers were turning away from the personal service of their local butcher, baker and grocer in droves, embracing the low prices and variety on offer at the supermarkets.
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They were all the same, those men, turning away their heavy faces and failing to acknowledge my greetings.
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In general, though, the Oxford hepcats detect a turning away from the hyphen.
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This had led to young people turning away from religion in droves, he said.
Times, Sunday Times
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He glanced at me for a second, before scowling and turning away.
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Steve nodded, and was turning away, when his eyes encountered those of the boy, who had evidently forgotten all about his "mither," and was grinning at him derisively, and in a way which made Steve's fingers tingle to tighten up into a fist and teach the lad a lesson.
Steve Young
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Turning away from the cairn and the bearded men in luminous jackets gathered about it, we stepped into our skis and pushed off, carving the first turns of our long, final descent.
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Ivy clucked her tongue and rolled her eyes, turning away from Missy as if she were trying to keep herself from pouncing on her.
Ominous
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As you command, Wildmage," he answered tonelessly, turning away back to the campfire.
Tran Siberian
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It was an inherently conservative message in a moment when more and more Americans seemed to be turning awayfrom God.
An Inexact Analogy
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Turning away under a strong attack is a sure recipe for defeat.
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Turning away from the use of lenses, Newton devised the reflecting telescope, which makes use of a bowl-shaped metal mirror to focus the light from the stars.
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To put it in terms reflective of Silas's photographic process and subject, Silas had to find the entropy that would hold us enrapt, keep us from turning away.
G. Roger Denson: Holocaust and Redemption in the Photography of Susan Silas
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Oversubscribed comprehensives are turning away applications for children whose parents have not put the school down as their first choice.
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Blindness is equated with turning away from temporality towards the contemplation of eternity.
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Turning away from King's Cross down Pentonville Road, from the top deck I see through an uncurtained window into a flat above a shop where three men and a woman are having tea.
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The two true elements of Christian morality, namely, the turning away from the sinful world, and the aggressive living and working in and for the same, fell apart into two different channels, which respectively served, for the sum total of moral merit, as complements to each other; the superabundant merit of the sanctity of the ascetes fell to the good of the little-meriting world-Christians.
Christian Ethics. Volume I.���History of Ethics.
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Turning away under a strong attack is a sure recipe for defeat.
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Beth squeezed her husband's arm in what appeared to be a conciliatory gesture, before turning away and walking towards the balcony.
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Turning away to look helplessly at Kaethe, he inched sideways along the wall like a retreating crab.
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I'm sorry you feel that way, he seemed to mewl out, turning away from her slowly to look out the window.
Smoke and Mirrors
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Obama will be Jimmy Carter squared, including blaming Americans for the great dispiritment, and turning away in thought which will ensue following the rest of the world's cynical use of his dangerously naive ideas to our detriment.
On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with...
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John and Angelos: the last report I heard about the Astrodome is not that they are simply turning away homeless, they are turning away everyone who is not being bussed from the Superdome, which they are still trying to evacuate.
More than a tragedy — a scandal « BuzzMachine
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It's claimed that Honda is turning away job applicants who belong to a union.
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Her arms were thrown up in the air in exasperation, she turning away momentarily.
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Consumers are turning away from traditional department stores and shopping more at mass merchants, discounters and warehouse marts.
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From this situation evolved the essential dynamic of Chicano performativity: the dialectic of calling attention to the act of turning away.
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‘Fine,’ she said grouchily, sipping her smoothie and turning away from him.
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Turning away from my pack I padded the outskirts of the forest that lined the city's boundaries.
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It was close to one of the ant-hills where the old tamanoir placed her young upon the ground, and turning away from it, she approached the great cone.
Popular Adventure Tales
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Charlotte Hayes was around Revel's age, and was turning away from the irascibility of her youth into the cantankerousness of middle age.
Fishers of Hope
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But it does suggest that the steady, malign drip of anti-Americanism is not without its perils, if turning away from the US creates a vacuum which is filled by the European Union.
Saddam "the federator of Europe"
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All in all, this sort of behavior is unsurprising from a company that has spent the last few years slowly but surely turning away from its power user base in an attempt to appeal to a broader market.
Apple’s Capricious Rules for iPhone Apps - Bits Blog - NYTimes.com
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Japanese corporations have been turning away from production and have diverted into finance and real estate.
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We used to call this sudden infant death syndrome, but some coroners are turning away from that and saying the cause of death is unascertained because that is a more honest reflection of the situation.
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I can't imagine a Spielberg film ending with a young boy watching a senator speak on TV and turning away because his patter is utterly irrelevant and probably full of lies.
GreenCine Daily: Interview. Bong Joon-ho.
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I just don't get why so many people are so passionate in their support of his turning away a boatload of refugees.
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Some even argue that turning away work makes you seem even more employable to a client!
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Politicians are increasingly mindful that young voters are turning away from traditional parties.
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Something anodyne about turning away from sin and rejecting evil.
Times, Sunday Times
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Japanese corporations have been turning away from production and have diverted into finance and real estate.
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Japanese corporations have been turning away from production and have diverted into finance and real estate.
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I love him turning away in faint disgust – that strikes me as exactly true to life.
More Exercises « Tales from the Reading Room
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Turning away, the afterimage on my retina has added nimbi to all of them.
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Turning away under a strong attack is a sure recipe for defeat.
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Politicians are increasingly mindful that young voters are turning away from traditional parties.
