TURRET in a Sentence
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22 example sentences for TURRET, such as:
1. The gun on the turret could be swivelled once in a minute.
2. To right and left of the turrets were more modern wings of black granite.
3. I saw an armored protective cylinder around a revolving gun turret on that warship.
4. The spiky points of the fir trees behind the house rose into the sky like the turrets and pinnacles of an abbey.
5. Beyond the turrets of the outer wall the jungle glared and shrieked, and the sun was furious above drenched orchids.
2. To right and left of the turrets were more modern wings of black granite.
3. I saw an armored protective cylinder around a revolving gun turret on that warship.
4. The spiky points of the fir trees behind the house rose into the sky like the turrets and pinnacles of an abbey.
5. Beyond the turrets of the outer wall the jungle glared and shrieked, and the sun was furious above drenched orchids.
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Meanings and Examples of TURRET
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turret
n. a self-contained weapons platform housing guns and capable of rotation
n. a small tower extending above a building
Classic Sentence: (20 in 2 pages)
1 The access, as usual in castles of the period, lay through an arched barbican, or outwork, which was terminated and defended by a small turret at each corner.
2 While the scenes we have described were passing in other parts of the castle, the Jewess Rebecca awaited her fate in a distant and sequestered turret.
3 It contained neither secret passage nor trap-door, and unless where the door by which she had entered joined the main building, seemed to be circumscribed by the round exterior wall of the turret.
4 With this threat he left his turret, and carried to the hall of the castle his unwonted intelligence, that a holy friar stood before the gate and demanded instant admission.
5 Her importunities had prevailed upon Urfried to suffer her to quit the turret, and Urfried had employed her services where she herself would most gladly have paid them, by the bedside of the wounded Ivanhoe.
6 One turret was now in bright flames, which flashed out furiously from window and shot-hole.
7 At length, with a terrific crash, the whole turret gave way, and she perished in the flames which had consumed her tyrant.
8 Over against this temple, on the other side of the great highway, at twenty feet distance, there was a turret at least five feet high.
9 We found Mr. Micawber at his desk, in the turret office on the ground floor, either writing, or pretending to write, hard.
10 Athos replied, always by gestures, that that was well, and indicated to Grimaud, by pointing to a turret that resembled a pepper caster, that he was to stand as sentinel.
11 Shouldering the shell-pitted houses patched with bits of old lumber and smoke-blackened bricks, the fine homes of the Carpetbaggers and war profiteers were rising, with mansard roofs, gables and turrets, stained-glass windows and wide lawns.
12 Beyond the turrets of the outer wall the jungle glared and shrieked, and the sun was furious above drenched orchids.
13 The spiky points of the fir trees behind the house rose into the sky like the turrets and pinnacles of an abbey.
Return of the Native By Thomas Hardy
Context Highlight In BOOK 5: 7 The Night of the Sixth of November
Context Highlight In BOOK 5: 7 The Night of the Sixth of November
14 To right and left of the turrets were more modern wings of black granite.
15 The turrets of a convent stood out beyond a wild virgin pine forest, and far away on the other side of the Enns the enemy's horse patrols could be discerned.
Example Sentence:
1 I saw an armored protective cylinder around a revolving gun turret on that warship.
2 The gun on the turret could be swivelled once in a minute.