How to Use about-face in a Sentence

about-face

noun

• The about-face was a long time coming, but still felt jarring thanks to the rushed nature of the show in its final two seasons.
  — Erik Kain, Forbes, 19 Jan. 2025
• The Nasdaq was being hit the hardest in Tuesday’s about-face.
  — Matthew J. Belvedere, CNBC, 7 Jan. 2025
• The president-elect's support for the widely popular app is an about-face from his first term in office.
  — Caitlin Yilek, CBS News, 9 Jan. 2025
• The ability to fly at night was pivotal Friday, when the Palisades fire, which had been pushing toward the ocean, made a sudden about-face and headed north.
  — Grace Toohey, Los Angeles Times, 15 Jan. 2025
• The swiftness of the campaign’s about-face may be to blame.
  — Paige Hagy, Fortune, 4 Nov. 2023
• There’s no real path for the league to do an about-face.
  — Danny Emerman, The Mercury News, 8 Dec. 2024
• One of the biggest shifts in sports has been the about-face on gambling.
  — Jacob Feldman, Sportico.com, 27 July 2024
• The song is a bit of an about-face for the cocky demi-god voiced by Dwayne Johnson.
  — Maureen Lee Lenker, EW.com, 28 Nov. 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
• The result is an about-face from dry, brittle hair to soft, shiny tresses.
  — Sharon Brandwein, Southern Living, 8 Aug. 2024
• 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 abrupt about-face has scrambled life for hundreds of thousands of migrants who came here and planned to stay.
  — Kate Linthicum, Los Angeles Times, 12 Dec. 2024
• The Post has similarly been critiqued for the last-minute about-face.
  — Liam Reilly, CNN, 26 Oct. 2024
• 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
• The vote was an about-face for the committee, which had declined to release the report in November.
  — Josh Meyer, USA TODAY, 23 Dec. 2024
• Bick’s redemption wasn’t the only reason for this about-face.
  — Chris Vognar, The Atlantic, 9 Dec. 2024
• 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

Last Updated: 8 Feb 2025