Sentence examples for turner from inspiring English sources
The word 'turner' is correct and usable in written English
You can use it as a noun to refer to someone whose job is to turn or shape objects with a lathe. For example, "My father is a turner and makes beautiful wooden bowls."
noun
A person who turns and shapes wood etc. on a lathe
"By understanding the whole picture we can all make informed decisions about what we consume," says Turner.
This is a dangerous and philistinic way of thinking: we may as well give the Turner prize to someone who makes a really big rubber band ball, or the guy who makes epic portraits using a Biro.
Turner confirms this, adding: "Another thing that's a part of the schizophrenic illness syndrome is the idea that your body has been interfered with," he tells me.
Some real surprises this morning as the Bafta nominations were announced: observers were startled at the non-showing of Mike Leigh's superlative Mr Turner, not even in the best British film category, which found room for Paddington.
"I'm not sure I should have said that," she says, looking to Turner, who seems less worried by this particular detail.
Rönkkö and Turner clearly have a sophisticated understanding of social media and its relationship to celebrity culture.
One piece, a vast six-foot high sculpture made from steel by Conrad Shawcross, dominates the RA courtyard, while a specially commissioned work by Turner-nominated Jim Lambie sees the gallery's central staircase transformed into a multi-coloured artwork.
The idea of making a film about this country's greatest painter, Joseph Mallord William Turner (1775 1851), in his last quarter century came to Leigh at the end of the 1990s and would not let him go.
Despite the impressive finishing, the game lacked finesse for long spells and McCormack almost capitalised on slack Wigan defending for a second time after latching on to a cross-field pass from Michael Turner, only for the striker to be halted by a desperate last-ditch slide from Emmerson Boyce.
He noted that the Turner Contemporary, built on the shoestring budget (by German standards) of £18m, attracts more visitors a year than the Gemäldegalerie, Berlin's gallery of Old Masters over the road from the Neue Nationalgalerie, which has one of the world's greatest collections: Rubens, Vermeer, Caravaggio, Van Eyck.
An early public building was the River and Rowing Museum in Henley-on-Thames, completed in 1998, but it was only with the building of two galleries – the Turner Contemporary in Margate and the Hepworth Wakefield, both of which opened in 2011 – that he won wide recognition and a knighthood in his home country.
