"turn" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- All the chimps, when eating, discreetly turned their backs and I began to feel a bit unwelcome.
- The two reliefs on the flanking sides discreetly turn their backs to the mystery of the central subject.
- The travel-worn Pullings, discreetly turned to the window as Jack read his letter, spun about at the cry.
- He does so, and hands the slip of paper to the Professor's Son, who discreetly turns away.
- When the chorus travels we become show people, even changing together in communal dressing rooms (backs turned discreetly).
- "After each shot, he would discreetly turn to Alma and ask: 'Was that all right?' "
- In another, he sits facing Ingres's bather - her back, as always discreetly turned -with his camera raised.
- A suppressed curse escaped from Marshall as he turned discreetly away from them.
- Taking the point, Helward moved some distance away, keeping his back turned discreetly while she fed the baby.
- But heads turned discreetly back again at her daughters' school, where the actress takes her place as a parent and can relax a bit.
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