Sentence examples for he turned about from inspiring English sources

Von Spee realized his armored cruisers could not escape the much faster battlecruisers, and so ordered the three light cruisers to attempt to break away while he turned about to engage the British with Gneisenau and Scharnhorst.

Spee realized his armored cruisers could not escape the much faster battlecruisers and ordered the three light cruisers to attempt to break away while he turned about and allowed the British battlecruisers to engage the outgunned Scharnhorst and Gneisenau.

She followed him around in all things he did until he turned about eight years old, when he informed her, she couldn't play with him and his friend's anymore-she had to make her own friends.

Suddenly he turns about and lets fly with both his trusty guns.

He turned over about 15,000 men, 20,000 rifles, 48 pieces of artillery, 17 heavy guns, about 3,000 horses, and large commissary stores.

In his speech he turned criticisms about authoritarianism on their head, saying that new state powers were guarantors of liberty, not threats to it.

He turned professional about 10 years ago, spending long days guiding pieces of wood into the stationary blade of a scroll saw.

Coward wrote Present Laughter as he turned 40, about a suave matinee idol approaching his 40th birthday; Jennings turned 50 earlier this year.

He turns questions about his age into answers about experience and preparation.

Shane Parrish worked for Canada's Defence Department before he turned to blogging about books.

Originally van Doesburg intended to pursue a career in the theatre, but he turned to painting about 1900.