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How to use turn on in a sentence

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Apparently it wouldn't turn on, so he removed the SIM card from the phone and put it into his.
And if I ask, she'll turn on the waterworks, and then I have to shell out more money to buy tissues.
I didn't turn on the alarm clock and was happily sleeping in when all three cats hit me like hungry guided missiles.
Similar to the checked baggage system, for each ticket holder a security officer would discreetly turn on or off the X-ray scanner.
Before your turn on your water heater or furnace, make sure there is nothing flammable stored next to it.
I know children will turn on the waterworks if the adults get all dramatic.
It was the perfect music to turn on as loud as humanly possible and dance like madwomen on a particularly springy bed.
When you turn on the tap, unfiltered water flows through the faucet head at a full-pressure flow as with any conventional faucet.
All turn on their axes once in a day from west to east, and all go round the Sun within the same time. Saturn is the most distant from the Sun.
Casey didn't bother to turn on the light in this end of the room, knowing it like the back of her hand.
If you turn on the hot-water faucet too far in the shower, you may be scalded.
She had a different look than most gymnasts, and pioneered many moves such as the triple turn on balance beam.
With a theatric bow and a turn on his heel, Hersby faded back into the corridor's shadows.
The window-dressers tut, relinquish their sparkling trolley, turn on their heels and scuttle back to safety.
But wild animals have been known to turn on their masters and well-intentioned defenders.
As their numbers thin out, they turn on each other, in an attempt to figure out who is the killer.
She ambled round the chalet and made a three-point turn on the narrow road of which she was quite proud.
I turn on the ignition, then flip back a cover on the aluminium gear selector to reveal the start button.
That's all I wanted to do, not thinking that I would make waves, change minds, excite people, incite people, turn on people, repulse people.
There is a need for two conditions to be present simultaneously to turn on the thyristor.
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Examples from Classical Literature
To let go altogether, instead of lowering with a turn on a cleat or bitt-head.
Throw the switch over to the service line, and your accumulator is ready to furnish light if you turn on your lamps.
We did turn on forty-third and came around the block, and of course we missed her.
When I got back to the office I thought I'd just turn on the Lucite and see what they might be up to next.
There was one bunch that squealed like a trolly goin round a turn on dry rails.
He told the boys how he planted himself at the Pahrump Valley turnoff because the sedan would have to turn on lights there.
We turn on the motive power, and it moves at the rate of a mile a minute if we desire it.
When I heard him safely round the 'sherp' turn on the staircase I looked at the sonsie, kindly face of my old nurse.
With elaborate absent-mindedness, Chester Pelton reached for the switch to turn on the video screen over the pantry door.
But the cold, white glare was more intense than he had expected, and he had to shut them again and turn on the polarizer.
To make the colour turn on the ponceau or poppy, a little turmeric is added to the bath.
The flare was a prearranged signal for the monitor to turn on the searchlight.
In an apotheosis of Prussianism Turkey was to turn on her Allies and drive them out.
Our friends were now out of reach of the pyrotechnics, and ventured to turn on their lights again.
The spirit finds Dante alive in the flesh and he in turn on account of the impalpability of the shade clasps only empty air.
Half the novels in France turn on the domestic misery arising from the indissolubility of the marriage tie.
If I'm in any pain or discomfort I will turn on the spinal cord stimulator and it really helps.
The turn on the alameda was taken with slow steps and stately remarks.
On the way I involuntarily let the conversation turn on Bela and Pechorin.
Then turn on to a piece of kitchen paper dredged with castor sugar.
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