"turn" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- "It's more likely that someone in your family had a poetic turn of mind."
- It accompanied short phrases, in turns poetic and sarcastic, mainly painted on the streets of downtown Manhattan.
- I thought that was a poetic turn of phrase, but I didn't know if she intended it to be.
- He was almost a poet in his old age and his notion of what happened took a poetic turn.
- In describing their designs, the architects were by turns poetic and bombastic.
- Oh, yeah, he was American, only we have that poetic turn of phrase.
- Dorothy Hall's diaries, by turns poetic and fuming, were her only comfort through a protracted middle age.
- These are not poetic turns of phrase, sir, but the basic use of the language.
- "Especially since Eagle Knights are not noted for their poetic turn of mind."
- Such facility is, in fact, apparent on every side, and sometimes it takes an unexpectedly poetic turn.
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