Sentence examples for firmly turn from inspiring English sources

We turn to you on this notable day and gently put one hand on each side of your face and firmly turn you towards us and say, "Join us".

Get under the tab or recessed area and gently but firmly turn the blade upward, popping the cover off.

With great care, invert the pan over the plate, then holding them firmly, turn the plate and pan over.

Netflix has firmly turned its back on us.

In the third position, the heel of one foot rests against the instep of the other; both are firmly turned out, and the weight is divided between them.

"At some point, the spigot has got to be firmly turned off," said Jim Graham (D-Ward 1), who voted against the stadium.

First he was offered the chance to run for Sudan which he very politely but very firmly turned down for understandable reasons.

Visitors to the sprawling plaza in central Beijing were stopped at checkpoints and searched, and foreign television crews and photographers were firmly turned away.

A reporter who sought on Thursday to drive to Ganzi was halted at a police checkpoint halfway to his goal and, after inspection of his journalist's visa, politely but firmly turned away.

It was during this dismal period that mother and daughters were "politely but firmly" turned out of a hotel in Vermont for being Jewish, in a particularly humiliating but hardly novel display of anti-Semitism.

Music, too, is terrifying: old tunes with intense associations will occasionally come on the radio – songs that must either be loyally sung and danced along to, or firmly turned off.