Sentence examples for turn turtle from inspiring English sources
verb
To turn upside down. Commonly used for boats and ships that capsize and turn through 180 so their hulls are above their superstructure, but it can refer to any vehicle in a similar position.
As for Cameron, he cannot turn turtle a second time.
Up came the Engineer yelling that the engines were being shaken to pieces; up came the Captain crying that his ship would turn turtle if this went on.
No such problem for the teams in the Extreme 40 catamarans, though even they had to keep a careful eye on the weather and the Danish team SAP managed to turn turtle during the final race of Saturday.
"The Half Moon listed heavily to starboard," The Times wrote, "and for a few minutes the crowd that had witnessed the accident though the little ship was about to turn turtle".
You can price the relative risk of different levels of load, and insure it accordingly, and you can put a price on the economic cost of lost goods should the ship turn turtle.
Another driver agreed: "Cars are always turning turtle".
It struck the bank violently and turned turtle, the whole crew being thrown out.
At about ten o'clock the hulk heaved a moist sigh and turned turtle.
Before the world economy turned turtle in 2008, the European Union presented an attractive face to the world.
In "The Poseidon Adventure," his most famous extravaganza, a giant wave hits a luxury passenger vessel, which turns turtle and slowly begins to sink.
I wasn't strong enough to hold on to my board when caught inside by six-foot waves, even though I "turned turtle" — rolled the board over, pulled the nose down from underwater, wrapped my legs around it, and got a death grip on the rails.
