How to Use about-face in a Sentence

about-face

noun

• Cheshire defended his work as ahead of its time, but the university’s about-face made international news.
  — Ariel Sabar, The Atlantic, 8 Aug. 2024
• The swiftness of the campaign’s about-face may be to blame.
  — Paige Hagy, Fortune, 4 Nov. 2023
• One of the biggest shifts in sports has been the about-face on gambling.
  — Jacob Feldman, Sportico.com, 27 July 2024
• But the sudden about-face of Prigozhin’s troops appeared to have eased the crisis for now.
  — Washington Post Staff, Washington Post, 24 June 2023
• The show simply did not earn this about-face on Stannis’s part.
  — Erik Kain, Forbes, 9 Feb. 2024
• The downturn is an about-face from what occurred at the height of the pandemic.
  — Tori Latham, Robb Report, 28 July 2023
• Here are the factors leading up to Trump’s about-face on crypto.
  — Andrew R. Chow, TIME, 22 May 2024
• No matter the reason for its about-face, Apple is late to the party.
  — Chris Velazco, Washington Post, 17 Nov. 2023
• For Golden State, the trade is a rapid about-face on the 24-year-old Poole, whom the team once viewed as a promising bridge out of the Curry era.
  — Sopan Deb, New York Times, 22 June 2023
• Kennedy kept his about-face, as another guest soon tried to change the subject.
  — Prem Thakker, The New Republic, 13 July 2023
• Jack Dorsey is doing an about-face on Elon Musk’s Twitter takeover.
  — Tori Latham, Robb Report, 1 May 2023
• The grill industry isn’t a stranger to slumps or about-face shifts in consumer demand.
  — Erika Tulfo, CNN, 30 June 2024
• Not all progressives agreed with the caucus’s about-face.
  — Jonathan B. Petkun, Foreign Affairs, 18 June 2024
• Some outsiders were embarrassed by the board's about-face.
  — Kelly Meyerhofer, Journal Sentinel, 1 Apr. 2024
• The about-face didn't necessarily give the bill a clear path to passage.
  — John Raby, ajc, 10 Mar. 2023
• Ready to reassess your financial plan and make a strategic about-face?
  — USA TODAY, 21 July 2024
• However, that changed the morning of the show, when she was announced as a last-minute performer in a surprise about-face.
  — Glenn Rowley, Billboard, 13 Mar. 2023
• Mnuchin’s about-face echoes, in some ways, the go-fast-and-break-things approach to policy making that Trump and his team preferred.
  — Lila MacLellan, Fortune, 8 Aug. 2024
• Any such population correction would be a stark about-face from the growth the world has seen over the last two centuries.
  — Tim Newcomb, Popular Mechanics, 21 Aug. 2023
• But Canada might have a fight on its hands that mirrors what the U.S. government was up against before its about-face.
  — IEEE Spectrum, 16 Mar. 2024
• Even that goal has now become uncertain thanks to Hochul’s last-second about-face.
  — Michael Kimmelman, New York Times, 9 June 2024
• This year, though, her dreams have been punctured by a governmental about-face.
  — Stefano Pozzebon, CNN, 1 Feb. 2024
• Three years later, the Heisman Trust pointed to the same changes to college athletics as the reason for its about-face on Bush.
  — Ryan Kartje, Los Angeles Times, 24 Apr. 2024
• Extending the life of Diablo Canyon is an about-face for Newsom.
  — Rob Nikolewski, San Diego Union-Tribune, 29 Nov. 2023
• Extending the life of Diablo Canyon marks an about-face for Newsom.
  — Rob Nikolewski, San Diego Union-Tribune, 15 Dec. 2023
• The swift move by Disney marked a stunning about-face for an actor who had been one of Hollywood’s fastest-rising stars.
  — Jake Coyle, Fortune, 19 Dec. 2023
• The stunning departure of Mr. Shell, 57, marks an abrupt about-face for him after a nearly two-decade rise at Comcast.
  — Nicole Sperling, New York Times, 23 Apr. 2023
• But leading up to the 2024 election, Trump has done an about-face and lavished praise onto the technology.
  — Andrew R. Chow, TIME, 17 July 2024
• Then Kawa took it to another level, pushing the discourse to a place that is an abrupt about-face from the last public comments his client made.
  — The Indianapolis Star, 27 July 2023
• Or so much that the expansion will eventually reverse itself in a kind of about-face big bang?
  — Richard Panek, Scientific American, 14 Nov. 2023

Last Updated: 17 Oct 2024