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Sentence Examples I'd like my son to round out his education on all things trailer trash before you turn off the telly. I can tell you I've gotten into some real scraps in interstate buses to get them to turn off the mind-numbing all-night videos. I've never had a friend get so mad with me that they turn off their phone and don't turn it back on for two days. I have also had people tell me personally that this is both a turn off and makes sensation nugatory, in a way that was designed to elicit shame. But pushy Michael somehow convinces them to turn off the sound and starts banging on an old upright piano. Thus are we drawn into an endless life of humiliation, where we haggardly never turn off our televisions, for fear of disappearing. A mixer tap on the shower allows me to turn off the water whilst shampooing, then immediately restore it at the same temperature. Failing that, I might turn off all the lights in the house and stand right in front of the window, staring out into the black night. If a phone is stolen, the mobile phone operator can use the number to turn off the phone, rendering it useless to the thief. So turn off the oven, wipe the sweat from your brow and sit back, relax and enjoy the simplicity of air-dry clay. After a quarter mile, we turn off into a steep hillside broken by blocky outcrops of granite interspersed with snowfields and patches of green. Matters aren't helped either by her desperately turgid prose style, which is likely to turn off all but the most conscientious of readers. Find yourself starting to turn off the radio when politicians hit the airwaves? He thought of the truck that had sideswiped him, leading to his decision to turn off the highway to wait until morning to continue his journey. In most cases, it's best just to turn off the comment feature from the get-go. And turn off your computer, or disconnect its network cable, if you are not planning to go online in the near future. The only solutions are to physically unplug these appliances, or to turn off their power strips. If you have to leave your home, remember to unplug your appliances, turn off the electricity and close the main water valve. This allows you to turn off some features, hopefully slimming down the window manager for use on resource-limited systems. When finished, shut off the motor, unplug the unit and turn off the regulator valve. Show More Sentences She kept her cool, even remembering to turn off the oven and deep fat fryer. When the timed process is completed, turn off the heat, remove the canner from heat if possible, and let the canner depressurize. Legal powers agreed in 1990 allow officers to enter properties and turn off alarms if the owner fails to do so. Shut down equipment, turn off the engine, remove key and wait for moving parts to stop before dismounting equipment. It began with damage to the garden and if I left the door on the latch they would come in and turn off my electricity. Having the notion of happy coupledom shoved down our throats at every turn during the weeks preceding Valentine's Day is a turn off to many. Carefully, one-handed, he peeled it off his right ear and set it on the passenger seat, unable to figure out how to turn off the neon flashers. Don't leave me there wondering exactly which revolting character flaw you found the biggest turn off. He told me that the plumber will need to turn off the water for about an hour to fix it. But give me a depressing chick flick in the graveyard slot starring C-list talent and I can't turn off the waterworks. He switched off the hazard lights, looked briefly over his shoulder and started up again, taking the right turn off the roundabout. With all the other systems, I would have to remember to turn off the iPod or it would keep playing and run down the batteries. A weak dollar might turn off foreign investors and reduce critically needed overseas capital. Why don't you turn off your monitor and go off and do something less boring instead? A lot of web developers not only turn off autocomplete for credit card input, but they disable autocomplete on many logins. The suspect surrendered and the officer attempted to turn off the laser sight on his pistol when the weapon discharged unintentionally. I've never had a friend get so mad with me that they turn off the phone and not turn it back on for two days. He got to his feet as quickly as he could, staggered then made his way to the console and tried to turn off the autopilot. If you want to turn off the autopilot and start taking control of your life it takes only one moment to make the decision. The user is then asked to remove the media from their computer, and to turn off their file-sharing software. Show More Sentences This is why drivers are asked to turn off their automobile engines, and not smoke, when filling fuel tanks with gasoline. My little part of aviation starts on downwind and ends when you turn off on a taxiway. I turn off nearly every automatic feature there is, from conversion of hyphens to appropriate dashes, to AutoCorrect and AutoFormat. The drummer didn't tell me to turn off the tape recorder, nor did he ask me not to print his remark. I don the headset, close my notebook, turn off the overhead light and lean back to enjoy the movie. But this bear market is likely to turn off a lot of first-time investors who already have a glut of mutual funds to choose from. As such tell-alls have made clear, she is a driven entrepreneur who can and will turn off the charm whenever she needs to. Then turn off the heat, leave the syrup mixture to infuse for a further five minutes or so, then strain it through a sieve and leave to cool. At one point water began flowing from the back of a firetruck and firefighters were seen making a mad scramble to turn off the supply. When I turn off the PC the light on the optical mouse remains on permanently. Jo told me to close the lid and turn off the lights as soon as I felt comfortable, to get the full therapeutic benefits. I should probably turn off the heater, put on a thick sweater and go to bed. And then you turn off the main road, and are in another, private world of gated compounds ringed by eroding mud-brick walls. So after overshooting the turn off two or three times, we finally got in there. So, turn off that TV and start keeping a diary, a journal or, best of all, a blog. As a CAD manager, have you ever wanted to turn off the ability of your team to customize toolbars and palettes? Also, turn off outside taps from inside the house and drain any external pipes to prevent bursting. The pair called at 11 am on Friday, telling her they were from the water board and needed to turn off the stopcock inside. The kiln is fully automatic and can be left to turn off at the end of the set time. When a worm dines on one of these microbial strains, the microbe's RNA is freed to turn off the corresponding worm gene. Show More Sentences Bragging about how they can access their flashlight and turn off their Wi-Fi with the flick of a finger. The pathetic dives and writhing on the field is a turn off to the most ardent American fan. Can we return the souped-up bugaboo strollers and turn off the shiny iPhone rattles in favor of simpler tools for raising a child? You use fuel to give you the proper velocity and direction, and then you turn off your fuel tanks and coast there. Prior to our consumption, the lights in the lodge were turned off and we were asked to turn off any cellphones. But when I turn off this computer in Linux, my PC does a reboot. But, my bet is she will disenfranchise many moderate Republicans and turn off independents. The activity lasted for 15 minutes, when the light turn off. When the grouper is tender and the sauce is slightly thickened and flavorful, 20 to 25 minutes, and turn off the heat. Traditionally, cities being bombed turn off all their lights. It is possible to program the box lights to turn off automatically. Once dawn came, she could awaken from an unsatisfying sleep, turn off the light, and feel the kind of physical and mental peace that comes after a fever has broken. They would punch me out on the time clock, and turn off the lights, and then pull the metal door down on the shop front and I'd lock it once I got there. Now the dominant trend in radio is to avoid giving listeners a reason to turn off, rather than offering a positive reason to turn on in the first place. In the 21st century, you also have to turn off the touchscreen to become human. For some reason I miss the turn off for the country train arrivals. This provided an excellent opportunity to discuss where the oxygen shut-off valves are located for each of the rooms and how to turn off the valves. He was later told to turn off the main road and ended up on a dirt track. Not wanting to get into a conversation, David quickly hits the button to turn off the telephone and as it bleeps, the doorbell sounds through the house. I immediately raised the flaps and began full braking, slowing enough to take an instinctive left turn off the runway onto taxiway bravo as the prop windmilled to a halt. Show More Sentences I had failed to turn off the ignition and to install chocks on the van. Dodd makes two more trips to the Oldsmobile, first to turn off the car's ignition, then to unsuccessfully pull Dawson's left hand from under his leg. If you turn off Tottenham Court Road onto Chenies Street you will see in front of you a building faced with a stone which reflects like a mirror on a sunny day. Additionally, intelligent data compression will automatically detect data that is not compressible and turn off compression for such incompressible data files. You can also use an egg timer to remind you to turn off the water. Despite the rather amusing sight of ladies in Elizabethan dress asking us to turn off our mobiles, I heard at least three during the course of the evening. Her shoulders are so loose in the joints that she dislocated the left one rolling over in bed to turn off her alarm clock one morning in March last year. Don't forget that you have to turn off the light when you leave. Low-end RAID controllers require a user to turn off a server when removing or adding drives. Needless to say, it's connected to your socket via one power chord and it comes with a switch on board to turn off the entire charging operation. We were amused for a few seconds, but then we refocused and decided to turn off all the rheostats that provide back-lighting to that panel. Any kind of retcon is a risky move, since it might turn off fans who had invested themselves in the way things were. We stand frozen, mouths agape, and when we turn off the air hammer, the silence is deafening. The sky was dripping. Like a tap that a child has tried its hardest to turn off but hasn't quite managed. The best safety measure is to turn off all RF emitters when uploading unpackaged ammo. And it's every bit as tweakable as previous versions of Windows. You can turn off the new Aero look, or just selected parts of it. If the little sparker gizmo on your propane grill isn't working, turn off the propane and get the starter replaced or repaired. I turn off my programs working in the background, but when I try to defrag it only defrags 29 per cent. Can the White House turn off the laugh track and give us both? Use the cutout faucet handle on page 35 to help Jill turn off the wave pool from the pump house. Show More Sentences To reduce the water level you can either turn off the tap, or increase the size of the plughole to let it drain out. While polishing his fancy footwork on the pitch, the Everton and England striker has also been perfecting his three-point turn off it. Alternatively, turn off the main stop valve and drain the system completely. If you see sparks, broken or frayed wires, or smell hot insulation, turn off the electricity at either the main fuse box or circuit breaker. The Assembly approves bills that would regulate power plant outages and expand utility programs that cut rates for big power users who turn off electricity during shortages. Use a powerstrip, and turn off electronics when you're sleeping or gone. According to a nation-wide survey conducted by DenTek and Bryant Research, bad breath is a bigger turn off than non-stop talkers, unstylish dressing or being shy. The ABI advise anyone with frozen pipes to turn off the stop valve. Don't animate your visuals to blink ad infinitum. Set a small-file blinkie to turn off after no more than three passes at whatever it is your blinkie does. For a third of those surveyed, streaky fake tan is the worst possible look for summer and for almost a quarter, y-front swimming trunks are the biggest turn off. The rupture of a large underground pipe created a 10-by-10-foot sink hole at Glenoaks Boulevard and Chevy Chase Drive, forcing the city to turn off water to the area. While residents were aware of the impending shut-offs last summer, complaints were later made over the selection process used in determining which ones to turn off. To be fair, the movie is slow at times, which as a fan I liked, as it was paying attention to every single detail, but will understandably turn off the casual viewer. They also discovered that denervating a regenerating limb before this transition prevents dll from turning on, whereas later denervation does not turn off the gene. If I drive for a short distance and turn off the motor, when I start it up again the oil light comes on and there is no oil showing on the dipstick. All electrical equipment increases fuel consumption so turn off the heated rear windscreen, demisters and headlights as soon as they are not needed. Any electrical load increases fuel consumption, so make sure you turn off your heated rear windscreen, demister blowers and headlights when you don't need them. The pure ostentatiousness of the Lamborghini had always been a turn off, of course that is until I got into the cockpit of the Aventador and drove it to its maximum speed. Examples from Classical Literature If we now turn off towards the north-west, Fezzan is the next country which our route touches. He stayed on the expressway for the next twenty miles, going far north of where he had intended to turn off. Teach yourself to make a rallentando evenly by watching the drops of water cease as you turn off a tap. Then she realized that Kennicott had forgotten to turn off the houselights. Drop the oven temperature to 150degC and bake for one hour, then turn off the oven, leaving the meringue in there to cool. Poli shook his head an angry no and reached to turn off his hearing aid. If it burns back into the air hole, also turn off the gas and begin again. Alas, her bitterness and a tendency towards wordiness may turn off some readers. Why don't he, in such a case, sell his horses, let his house, turn off his servants, and make a thorough reform at once? Some turn off from their voluntary pilgrimage down the Iss, and, scaling the awful walls of its canyon below us, stop in the valley. I waited for an instant, hoping that I might be mistaken, and that she would turn off in some other direction. Pausing in his intention to turn off the gas burning in the middle of the shop, Mr Verloc descended into the abyss of moral reflections. The county council plans to turn off another 1,000 to save about pounds 19,000 a year. We have directions but once we turn off the highway it all goes higgledy-piggledy. Leaving the spine incompletely closed, it can turn off nerve signals that keep the bladder healthy. Forced into a snow drift by another car when they turn off the highway down a lonely road, they face a freezing night together with ghostly overtones. If a pipe bursts turn off the stopcock and call in a plumber. The court heard Miss Shaw, 22, was advised by her mother to turn off the stopcock, inside a cupboard, when she found flooding in her West Bromwich flat. Eastbound traffic quickly started backing up after the 8am crash near the Rainbow Bridge, between Junction 22 at Old Colwyn and Junction 23 at the Llanddulas turn off. As part of a global campaign by the World Wildlife Fund to highlight climate change, Durham County Council asked schools and offices to turn off lights for an hour. Find more words! 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