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turning

You use turning when you want to change the subject. Turning to the economy, there are signs that things are getting better.

turning

act of changing in practice or custom the law took many turnings over the years (= turn) the act of changing or reversing the direction of the course he took a turn to the right the activity of shaping something on a lathe the end-product created by shaping something on a lathe (= turn) a movement in a new direction the turning of the wind a shaving created when something is produced by turning it on a lathe

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Topics turning topics

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Simple sentences

Do you mind my turning on TV?
Tom is turning yellow.
Tom will be turning ninety the day after tomorrow.
I'm turning forty this month.
Turning right, you'll find the hospital on your left.
There's no turning back.
That day proved to be the turning point in his career.
The garden is turning into a wilderness.
I think he's making a big mistake by turning down the job.
Would you mind turning down the radio?
I'm sorry. Would you mind turning around?
The mayor of this city was blamed for turning a deaf ear to the people's requests.
There's no turning back now.
Turning to the left, you will find the post office.
He was idly turning over the pages of a magazine.
Her hair is turning gray.
It is no wonder that you are turning down the proposal.
Turning to the right, you will find the city hall in front of you.
Turning to the right, you will see a white tower.
Turning to the right, you will come to the museum.
Do you mind my turning on the radio?
Would you mind turning down the volume?
Do you mind turning on the TV?

Movie subtitles

In contrast, by turning away from foreign trade and intensifying rice cultivation, the Chinese were stuck with rising population, falling incomes and declining nutrition, height and productivity.
There aren't many virgins left, so some of them are turning to babies.
But you're forgetting about who's here for you right now, and you're turning your back on me.
Canada is turning one hundred and fifty and I am not gonna miss the party.
Are you a racist or am I just turning your off?
The astronomers run at full speed turning around each time they are pressed too closely and reducing the fragile beings to dust.
This hotel will be so crowded that we'll be turning away thousands of people.
Well, we're turning back.
They're turning back. No, you're not.
This could be a turning point for your career.
Well, i must see that he. i must stop his turning these people out.
There isn't anothe r side to turning out the jackmans after you promised. oh, dear me, yes.
I'm turning to a skeleton.
By breaking statues. one risks. turning into one. oneself.
We're trying to build trust with tribes loyal to our country but the encampment policy, which was adopted against the army's advice and gave you land that belonged to the Arabs, is turning the tribes against us and undermining our work.
We're turning Algeria into a modern country bringing comfort to the colonists and progress to the natives.
I'm sorry, but all you've done for us is turning against us.
A big cluck like you turning cute on me!
We're for turning back! Wait!
They're turning back.
What's the idea of turning her down?
No turning back!
So, you're turning yellow.
Your public is turning away from you.
Stop turning my head.
I'm sure Miss Allenbury won't mind turning her ticket over to me now.
The biggest blooming hunter in the whole blinking continent turning himself into a glorified tourist guide.
Then, when he did, I made this huge deal about turning my back on him.
And lots in the bathrooms turning on the showers.
I mean, it's his friend turning into a wolf, you know.
Congratulations on turning off your radar.
You're turning an odd color.
Turning down that deal.
If wanting things make you happy, I should be turning cartwheels right now.
What's to prevent them from turning the page?
Would you mind shutting that off, or at least turning it down?

News and current affairs

The left in America criticizes Obama for not turning the economy around already.
Obama clearly recognizes that the NPT needs to be strengthened in order to prevent countries from turning their civil nuclear-power capacity into weapons.
After the US military action in Iraq, the tables may be turning in surprising ways.
The birth of the DPJ government can yet be a turning point.
But turning a blind eye is shortsighted, for America and for the Saudis.
As a result, the US is wasting some of its most valuable assets, with some young people - bereft of skills - turning to dysfunctional activities.
The nature of these problems means that the US does not have the luxury of turning inward no matter what the outcome in Iraq.
Today, that consensus is unraveling as America's politicians wrestle with a federal budget that is itself turning into a long war - one with its own casualties.
For more than three decades, no one really challenged the consequences of turning political power over to the highest bidders.
Moments of defeat have always been history's turning points in Serbia.
After a decade of horrific turmoil, Russia's economy is at last turning around.
A watershed is a tipping point, a turning point, a game changer.
Traditionally, a visit from the Japanese emperor - except for a coronation or royal anniversary celebration - signified a turning point in a bilateral relationship.
Now both are gone, and Bush is turning to troop increases.
The end of the East-West ideological divide and the end of absolute faith in markets are historical turning points.
Similarly, regardless of the outcome of DSK's trial in New York, the case might represent a turning point in the treatment of women in Europe.
Japan was worried about a rising China and thus turning more confrontational.
But how can we blame that legacy while turning a blind eye to a kind of colonialism against women in these same countries' private homes and public institutions?
As international capital markets developed in the early nineteenth century, state governments borrowed on a large scale, quickly turning them from creditors into debtors.
But, unlike its neighbors, this year can mark a turning point for Burundi.
None of us can live safer, richer lives by turning our back to the world.
September 11, 2001, was a terrible tragedy by any measure, but it was not a historical turning point.
Indeed, she looks more like a Korean Margaret Thatcher - a lady not for turning, in Thatcher's famous phrase, and with clearly thought-through political principles animating her actions.
We live in an age in which many people are disillusioned with secular politics, and are turning to religion instead, not only throughout the Muslim world, but in the core of Western civilization, Christian Europe and Evangelist America.
Turning its back in the face of such challenges is no longer a viable American option.

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