Sentence examples for turned active from inspiring English sources

Wittgenstein turned active, grabbed the iron poker, and waved it in a hostile manner, his voice rising in pitch, as he berated the visitor.

"Everyone who possesses a love of the marvellous ought to have a microscope," wrote Cooke on the opening page of his book, written in an age before broadcast media turned active enquirers into passive viewers during long winter evenings.

This includes a visit to the Convento y Iglesia de Nuestra Señora de Belen, a former ruined 17th-century convent turned active community center for the needy, which is always a moving and educational experience.

But buyouts, which turn active workers into pensioners, only worsen the company's dependency ratio.

The threat, you may recall, was that, come 3 November, a clause in the crime and courts act would turn active, helping inflict punitive libel damages and costs on innocent newspapers who'd failed to sign up for Leveson-compliant royal charter regulation.

This new feature will help turn active listeners into DJs.

Their position is currently passive, but they could turn active and push management to accept an acquisition if the right offer materializes.

I also use Twitter a lot – it's a great way to have passive conversations which can turn active and private fast.

And obviously the answer cannot be that one needs to give in order to receive; that would turn active love for one's friend into a mere means to the benefits received.

When spores get into an animal or a person, they can be activated and turned into "active growing cells," according to the CDC.

In turn, active caspase 9 activates the downstream caspase cascade that involves caspase 3 and other effector enzymes.