How to Use turn against in a Sentence

turn against

phrasal verb

• Both unions feared the ways in which their work could be turned against them.
  — Gene Maddaus, Variety, 9 Nov. 2023
• The public hasn’t known them long enough to turn against them.
  — Danny Emerman, The Mercury News, 5 May 2024
• The paranoia set in with the whole Matt deal, and feeling as though the whole house had turned against me so early on.
  — Dalton Ross, EW.com, 27 Sep. 2024
• Even some of Karamo’s own supporters turned against her.
  — Andy Kroll, ProPublica, 22 May 2024
• Players and coaches who had stood by him began to turn against him.
  — Matt Schudel, Washington Post, 1 Nov. 2023
• Some of his famous friends and colleagues publicly turned against him.
  — Christi Carras, Los Angeles Times, 16 May 2023
• Many Black and Hispanic men have turned against Democrats — and toward Trump.
  — Axios, 13 July 2024
• So the tide may be turning against remote work in many managers’ minds, but not quite yet in practice.
  — Jane Thier, Fortune, 16 June 2023
• Even McCain turned against it, amid his race for president that year.
  — Eli Hager, ProPublica, 25 Oct. 2024
• His family stayed in Berlin long enough for Miller to witness his own classmates turn against him.
  — Cameron Knight, The Enquirer, 30 Aug. 2023
• In the West, some are rebelling by turning against progressivism.
  — Itxu Díaz, National Review, 24 Nov. 2023
• Here’s why the tide is turning against remote work (rightly or wrongly).
  — Jane Thier, Fortune, 14 June 2023
• Presales through the weekend give the film 6-8%, though that could vary quickly if exhibitors support the title or turn against it.
  — Patrick Frater, Variety, 1 Dec. 2023
• Many figures who have stepped outside of Trump's orbit, like Griffin, have turned against him.
  — David Bauder, Quartz, 29 Mar. 2024
• Now our politics are so bad that even the Kennedy family has been turned against each other.
  — Armond White, National Review, 16 Aug. 2023
• Then again, Adar may have sacrificed too much and the orcs may turn against him when Sauron gives them an alternative.
  — Erik Kain, Forbes, 26 Sep. 2024
• Former Russian spy Sergei Skripal paid a heavy price for turning against the Kremlin.
  — Lauren Said-Moorhouse, CNN, 16 Feb. 2024
• And faced with more of them, even people concerned about climate change might turn against clean energy.
  — Sammy Roth, Los Angeles Times, 20 July 2023
• Putin is unlikely to view his slow success on the frontline — and the looming change in the White House — as marking a moment where the tide is turning against him.
  — Nick Paton Walsh, CNN, 20 Nov. 2024
• By turning against congestion pricing at the 11th hour, Samuelsen is standing in the way of billions in contract work for his own union.
  — Alex Matthiessen, New York Daily News, 26 Mar. 2024
• All of this bodes poorly for anyone who hoped after last year that the tide was turning against ransomware actors.
  — WIRED, 12 July 2023
• Most of the time, dictators fall when their military splits into factions, and one faction turns against the regime.
  — Brian Klaas, The Atlantic, 24 June 2023
• If the signal comes from inside the cell — if the reason for death is damage to the genome, for instance — then the process starts with the mitochondria turning against their host cell.
  — Quanta Magazine, 6 Mar. 2024
• Iron Man, to act as a defense program but that instead turned against humanity, as seen in the movie Avengers: Age of Ultron.
  — Kirsten Chuba, The Hollywood Reporter, 26 Oct. 2024
• The mutiny has shaken Putin’s fundamental belief that a true patriot could not turn against the regime.
  — Isaac Chotiner, The New Yorker, 27 June 2023
• As the country turns against migrants, Strassburger’s work has become more fraught.
  — Jack Herrera, The New Yorker, 8 Aug. 2024
• One defeat was enough for the Mexican fans to turn against their national team and their interim coach, Jaime Lozano.
  — Abraham Nudelstejer, Dallas News, 6 July 2023
• But, eventually, each of them turned against the movement, believing that such a confrontation with the regime would do more harm than good.
  — Azadeh Moaveni, The New Yorker, 7 Aug. 2023
• Yet over the years, the developers making iOS apps slowly started to turn against the company.
  — Morgan Meaker, WIRED, 16 Aug. 2024
• Yet when thousands of Hezbollah members were injured and dozens killed, when their pagers and walkie-talkies exploded in an apparent Israeli attack last week, that battle began to turn against his group.
  — Dan Morrison, USA TODAY, 28 Sep. 2024

Last Updated: 20 Dec 2024