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How to use turn away in a sentence

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This does not mean the company would turn away the opportunity to sell to the multiples, or any other customer if the chance arose.
But Dublin also had a number of unattractive features that had the potential to turn away investors.
He was about to turn away, when he heard footsteps coming up the church path from the gate.
When we ignore that fact, turn away from our history, we risk reliving the eras we so fervently try to expunge from our collective memory.
As she was about to turn away from the window Joanna heard voices coming from the park at the end of the short street.
Perhaps they will turn away in disillusionment, as if such discord mocks all meaning.
Finally, irritated with myself for being so cowardly to turn away, I looked back into his eyes.
The rest of the time, we're tightwads who turn away as people die in far greater numbers.
And yet how can I turn away from my faith in God, my political convictions, my gender?
The turn away from Protestant scholasticism was given clear, systematic justification in the theology of Horace Bushnell.
With little official oversight, growers simply turn away domestic workers, or offer wages so low that flipping burgers becomes more appealing.
On Thursday, Highway Motors in Port Alfred had to turn away several motorists again after unleaded petrol supplies ran dry.
Mr Haven, of Indianapolis, said the Titanic struck a glancing blow to the iceberg as it attempted to turn away.
Certain off licences in the city centre operate a refusal register, which charts the estimated age of children that they turn away.
There would be no time to turn away, no time to act, yet there would be time to perceive and apprehend.
As people turn away from red meat in their droves, chicken sales have soared.
Transfixed, discomforted, we can't turn away from the spectacle as it lurches into even more ghastly territory.
As young accounting students turn away from academia, accounting professors are getting older.
The result is ineffective Web sites which may turn away customers and sites that need to be recoded after the complaints start coming in.
The key is to offer candidates good reason to turn away from the scramble for corporate and private dollars.
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Examples from Classical Literature
For surely none would turn away, whose nature is uncancelled, if once he could be gently led into that world of beauty.
She must turn away from Guy, and as she turned she saw that what had been fretting the window-pane was a spray of yellow jasmine.
Did she desire this man, and hate him because he had touched her only to turn away?
Nothing that Brock could say to his father was sufficient to cause big daddy to turn away.
In response to Robin's cheery chatter, taka would bristle, turn away and maintain a stubborn silence.
I was going to turn away, not to frighten her, when the figure rose to its height and I recognized Miss bordereau's niece.
Many who would turn away in disgust from Mr. Punch, will stand for hours and look at the performances of the fantoccini.
Sylvia shuddered, but had not power to turn away her white face from his gaze.
At first she was tempted to turn away her eye with carelessness and inattention.
Weston, who had been almost wholly engrossed by her attentions to him, was able to turn away and welcome her dear Emma.
The little man pointed inland, so that the giant was forced to turn away from the others to look in the direction indicated.
Tears came to my eyes, so that I was forced to turn away that I might hide my emotions.
She gave no sign that she had heard, though the expression of her eyes changed to one of inexpressible loathing as she started to turn away.
It was Mr Allworthy's custom never to punish any one, not even to turn away a servant, in a passion.
Twice only did he hastily turn away and privily wipe his eyes.
His first act was to elevate his torch to a level with my face, squint malignantly, project his under-lip, and turn away.
The faces that once looked kindly on him turn away from him with a frown.
She was just going to turn away when Ruffo bent down to kiss her hand.
I meant to make her my devoirs, but, as I stepped forward, the old wound broke out afresh, and I had to turn away.
Recent years have seen a revival in long-form journalism, as readers turn away from the flimsiness of much online content in search of more considered writing and criticism.
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