turnings
- plural of turning.
Example Sentences
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"We get a lot of head turnings, if people are driving by, you can tell by their eyes they're just like, what?"
From BBC • Oct. 13, 2025
His initial Sleeping Beauty Castle was built utilizing plywood, PVC, wood turnings and cast resin veneer, but he has since updated the structure with largely polyurethane foam boards and 3D-printed materials.
From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 13, 2024
“The safest road to Hell is the gradual one,” Screwtape reminds Wormwood, “the gentle slope, soft underfoot, without sudden turnings, without milestones, without signposts.”
From The New Yorker • May 20, 2019
“My publishing history’s just so checkered with sudden reversals, ups and downs, confusions, wrong turnings, and at the end of my life, virtually, it seems like things are starting to work out,” he said.
From New York Times • Mar. 27, 2018
There were three turnings before us and there was no telling which way lay the house of our son.
From "Nectar in a Sieve" by Kamala Markandaya
