How to Use turn in in a Sentence

turn in

verb
  • They turned in the necklace to the lost and found.
  • It is almost midnight, so it's time to turn in.
  • Found items may be turned in to the Guest Services Office.
    Ed Masley, The Arizona Republic, 22 June 2024
  • Found items may be turned in to the Guest Services Office.
    Ed Masley, The Arizona Republic, 12 Mar. 2024
  • Wilson was in fifth place coming down the final turn in the semis.
    Greg Rosenstein, NBC News, 24 June 2024
  • Woods played that four-hole stretch before making the turn in 6 over.
    Dave Skretta, The Denver Post, 14 Apr. 2024
  • That song just hit 1 billion streams on YouTube, the same day our writer turned in the script.
    Matt Donnelly, Variety, 17 Mar. 2023
  • The ballots would then be collected by jail staff and turned in to the mailroom.
    Jake Sheridan, Anchorage Daily News, 4 Apr. 2023
  • But there was never like a thing of we’re signing some contract to turn in a song.
    Chris Willman, Variety, 1 Dec. 2023
  • The iPhone 15 is hitting store shelves next week, but not all Apple lovers are ready to turn in their old phones just yet.
    Elizabeth Napolitano, CBS News, 13 Sep. 2023
  • But ByteDance has seen how quickly the tides can turn in Washington.
    Tribune News Service, The Mercury News, 23 Apr. 2024
  • The Kansas economy did turn in solid growth last year — the 10th best in the nation.
    Scott Cohn, CNBC, 18 July 2024
  • The flip side Thank you and God bless the person who turned in my coupon book and all of my lottery tickets at Publix.
    Ticked Off, Orlando Sentinel, 8 Aug. 2024
  • Jean Bartholomew had the best round of the day, turning in a 69 that moved her up to a tie for ninth place with amateur Terrill Samuel.
    Jodom, oregonlive, 27 Aug. 2023
  • Small groups of men and women await their turn in a gray-walled room, at a table laid with capless pens.
    Sarah Matusek, The Christian Science Monitor, 21 Nov. 2023
  • The week before against Green Bay, safety Kerby Joseph took his turn in the limelight.
    Carlos Monarrez, Detroit Free Press, 16 Nov. 2022
  • Kids are required to turn in their phones at the beginning of the day and can't get them back until after school.
    The Enquirer, 21 Apr. 2024
  • State police said the helmet – and the attached camera – was found on the lake shore and turned in to troopers Monday.
    Minnah Arshad, USA TODAY, 19 July 2023
  • And in a sign of what was to come, Hoeft turned in a stellar performance in a stock-picking contest at school.
    Robert Faturechi, ProPublica, 21 Nov. 2023
  • After just a few years, though, the hype dimmed; does anyone remember her turn in Noah?
    Rachel Simon, Vulture, 8 Nov. 2022
  • That means campaigns can reach out to voters directly and remind them to turn in their votes.
    Don Gonyea, NPR, 13 Apr. 2024
  • Parscale complied with a court order to turn in his firearms and was not charged in connection with the incident.
    Garance Burke, Fortune, 6 May 2024
  • Up 21-6, Diehl turned in his most impressive play of the night on La Jolla’s fourth possession.
    Don Norcross, San Diego Union-Tribune, 14 Oct. 2023
  • But Carter turns in a strong game on the ground, and MSU’s defense generates two critical turnovers to set up put-away scores in the second half.
    Carlos Monarrez, Detroit Free Press, 1 Sep. 2023
  • Sunday, for example, the new-look offense turned in a mostly sharp game.
    Tom Krasovic, San Diego Union-Tribune, 11 Sep. 2023
  • Earlier in the day, Domestic Spending was pulled up entering the far turn in the Turf Mile.
    John Cherwa, Los Angeles Times, 5 Nov. 2022
  • Tania Boonstra was first to the turn in 2022, only to be caught and passed by eventual winner Rose Conway on the return portion of the race.
    Chris Bieri, Anchorage Daily News, 5 July 2023
  • The race had taken an usual turn in May, when Mr. Fetterman suffered a stroke that kept him off the campaign trail for about three months.
    Aaron Zitner, WSJ, 9 Nov. 2022
  • The company cleans the products consumers turn in, then lists them on the resale section of its site at lower prices than new items.
    Meghan Hall, Sourcing Journal, 17 July 2024
  • However, Hiraki upped her score on the final run, turning in a 92.63 to edge out Brown for silver.
    Ina Fried, Axios, 6 Aug. 2024

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