How to Use turn down in a Sentence

turn down

verb

• I'm afraid that I will have to turn down your invitation.
• Should the heat have been turned down when the okra was covered?
  — Virginia Willis, Southern Living, 12 July 2023
• Bring to a boil over high; then turn down the heat to low.
  — Ronni Lundy, Southern Living, 25 Dec. 2023
• At 15 yards, where the cattle trail split into two lanes, the buck turned down one of the trails.
  — Bob McNally, Outdoor Life, 20 Dec. 2023
• Even among people in their 50s, more than one in five were turned down.
  — Jonel Aleccia, New York Times, 22 Nov. 2023
• Don Cheadle isn't one to turn down a dare from George Clooney.
  — Eric Andersson, Peoplemag, 24 Dec. 2022
• Would the temptation to come back to the center ring of the circus be too much for the showman to turn down?
  — Brian Bennett, Time, 14 Oct. 2022
• Should a hotel be able to turn down black or Jewish clients?
  — Jay Nordlinger, National Review, 1 Mar. 2023
• That happened again, and again, and again — in all, Anglin was turned down by over a dozen flight schools.
  — Steve Hartman, CBS News, 1 Dec. 2023
• After menopause, the negative part of the amygdala is turned down.
  — Eileen Finan, Peoplemag, 10 Mar. 2024
• Prospective tenants turn down units for fear of crime, the report states.
  — Michael Brice-Saddler, Washington Post, 7 Oct. 2022
• Both the trial judge and an appeals court turned down the request.
  — Adam Liptak, New York Times, 15 Jan. 2024
• One thing puzzled me: The flatware was turned down toward the table.
  — Miss Manners | Judith Martin, Anchorage Daily News, 29 Aug. 2023
• An investor could turn down your pitch, or sales could suddenly take a turn for the worse.
  — Rolling Stone Culture Council, Rolling Stone, 14 Nov. 2023
• The mothers said they have already been turned down twice by IVF centers.
  — Renee Maltezou, The Christian Science Monitor, 2 Feb. 2024
• One in 10 unemployed Gen Zers have had to turn down a job because of such costs.
  — Byorianna Rosa Royle, Fortune Europe, 5 Feb. 2024
• But Hamas has since turned down two offers for a pause in the fighting, each one more generous than the last.
  — The Editorial Board, WSJ, 27 Dec. 2023
• Lawyers who have faced her in the courtroom say that the corners of her lips seemingly never turn down.
  — David D. Kirkpatrick, The New Yorker, 2 Oct. 2023
• That said, the public’s feelings about the economy are often tempered by the fear that things could turn down again in the blink of an eye.
  — Michael Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times, 9 Feb. 2024
• Meanwhile, 41% said such problems have forced them to turn down a new job offer.
  — Alia Wong, USA TODAY, 8 Feb. 2023
• This came just a few hours after the Supreme Court in a 6-3 vote turned down the Biden administration’s plea to keep the law on hold.
  — David G. Savage, Los Angeles Times, 20 Mar. 2024
• Image As Fell-Davis turned down 96th Street, parents and grandparents and aunts and uncles walked kids to the school fence.
  — Meg Bernhard, New York Times, 5 Apr. 2023
• There’s no denying pies are delicious (dare you to try to turn down a slice of this Hot Buttered Rum Pie).
  — Joe Sevier, Bon Appétit, 9 Nov. 2023
• If some characters are having their horniness turned down, Halsin could stand to have his turned up a bit.
  — Ash Parrish, The Verge, 5 Sep. 2023
• Now, 16 years after turning down the title role, Brady will replace Mingo as the Wiz when the show moves to Broadway in the spring.
  — Adam Bell, San Diego Union-Tribune, 5 Jan. 2024
• The scammer went so far as to listen in on Yaffe’s phone, which was in her pocket, as she was turned down by Bank of America.
  — Steve Lopez, Los Angeles Times, 2 Feb. 2024
• Many parents don’t like to turn down requests for help or see their children deprived.
  — Bob Carlson, Forbes, 27 Jan. 2023
• Forrest’s doctors appealed but were turned down again, prompting Forrest to throw the tissue box at the wall.
  — Maya Miller, ProPublica, 15 Nov. 2023
• So when the Panthers called with a minimum three-year deal and $1,000 signing bonus, Duke couldn’t turn down a chance to play for his hometown team.
  — C Jackson Cowart, Charlotte Observer, 31 Jan. 2024
• The pair then walked through a door to the left and turned down another corridor, which had frames showing side profiles of Patrick and his children.
  — Kimberlee Speakman, Peoplemag, 13 Feb. 2024

Last Updated: 3 May 2024