How to Use turnstile in a Sentence

turnstile

noun

• The gates to the closer’s role seem to churn as fast as the turnstiles at Globe Life Field.
  — Dallas News, 21 Feb. 2023
• The National League had lost the war at the turnstiles, and was ready to deal.
  — Cincinnati Enquirer, Cincinnati.com, 27 June 2018
• Is that enough to keep the turnstiles moving and the beer sales flowing?
  — Ann Killion, San Francisco Chronicle, 29 Mar. 2023
• On its face, baseball’s losingest team is rolling up the sales sleeves to stem the turnstile tide.
  — Bryce Miller, sandiegouniontribune.com, 22 May 2017
• Some will pass a badge over a turnstile to a friend who forgot his or hers.
  — Tiffany Hsu and Jack Nicas, New York Times, 5 Apr. 2018
• But, hey, there’s a lot going on at turnstiles alongside the Merc with the Mouth.
  — Nancy Tartaglione, Deadline, 11 Aug. 2024
• For five desultory seasons the Bees were a bust both at the turnstiles and in the standings.
  — Bob Greene, WSJ, 4 Oct. 2018
• But at the turnstiles, the White Sox were a big winner in Milwaukee.
  — Chris Foran, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 8 May 2018
• The turnstile count was down at all five casinos compared to April 2017.
  — Karen Caffarini, Post-Tribune, 10 May 2018
• New stairs and turnstiles will be added at a number of stations.
  — Sarah Maslin Nir, New York Times, 13 Dec. 2017
• Views are arranged through turnstiles, paths, guardrails, signs and walls.
  — New York Times, 27 June 2018
• In Chicago, fans ripped out a turnstile and crammed every nook of Comiskey Park to watch Paige hurl a shutout.
  — Washington Post, 9 Apr. 2021
• Workers swiped badges and poured through turnstile doors onto the main floor.
  — Mark Glover, sacbee, 9 Feb. 2018
• In three seasons in Hartford, more than 1.2 million fans have come through the turnstiles at the Dunk.
  — Chris Brodeur, courant.com, 30 Aug. 2019
• The Lynx is something of an honor system in that there is no turnstile to walk through.
  — Steve Harrison, charlotteobserver, 30 Jan. 2018
• His gun gone, Joey attempts to escape, charging through the turnstile and trying to make it to the street.
  — Mark Jacobson, Vulture, 11 Dec. 2021
• Yasir Durant was a turnstile, allowing two of the Jets’ three sacks and earning a spot on the bench late in the first half.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 19 Sep. 2021
• Mendoza follows her across a platform and even slows down to wait for her at the turnstiles.
  — Paulina Dedaj, Fox News, 28 July 2018
• Mazyck allegedly stabbed the 29-year-old victim in the back of the head at an NQR line turnstile.
  — Michael Ruiz, Fox News, 16 June 2021
• Not with the Seahawks line going into turnstile mode right from the snap.
  — Steven Ruiz, USA TODAY, 19 Sep. 2017
• The app offered up a QR code, which, when scanned, prompted a plastic turnstile to open.
  — Anna Russel, The New Yorker, 3 Aug. 2021
• Jones fled the scene on foot, leaving the station at the turnstiles by West 53rd Street and 5th Avenue, police said.
  — Charna Flam, Peoplemag, 19 Oct. 2023
• The official crowd size does not reflect the in-house count, the turnstile number … the bodies in the building.
  — Jon Wilner, The Mercury News, 29 July 2019
• Yes, this place is so popular that there’s an amusement-park style turnstile in front of the deli counter.
  — Kara Baskin, BostonGlobe.com, 3 July 2018
• In the newspaper box score, the no-show and turnstile totals were listed side by side.
  — Ryan O’Halloran, The Denver Post, 22 Dec. 2019
• And stupid, jumping the turnstile in the subway station with like a few pounds of weed in my backpack and all that money.
  — Brian Hiatt, Rolling Stone, 16 Aug. 2023
• Officials from Japan talked about holding a smart watch up to a turnstile to enter the Tokyo Metro.
  — James Barron, New York Times, 29 June 2017
• Swipe through the turnstiles and back onto the train which takes forever for some reason.
  — R29 Team, refinery29.com, 14 Feb. 2024
• From the turnstiles to the FastPass+ entrance to the photographer on Main Street, there are so, so many touchpoints throughout the day.
  — Deanne Revel, Parents, 22 May 2024
• Yet the Impossible Dream would be so much more than the number of fans pushing through the turnstiles.
  — Jeff Jacobs, courant.com, 17 Aug. 2017

Last Updated: 3 Nov 2024