How to Use turret in a Sentence

turret

noun
  • The highest spike of all — on the turret — is the one that was hit.
    Washington Post, 2 June 2021
  • One agent popped out of the turret and trained his rifle at the front door.
    Hanna Krueger, BostonGlobe.com, 22 Apr. 2023
  • There was a round turret at one end of the main house and a square one at the other.
    John Kelly, Washington Post, 10 Feb. 2018
  • The shooter got lucky and swished the rocket through the truck's gun turret.
    jsonline.com, 30 Aug. 2021
  • The house itself, which has a roof with turrets, dates back to 1998.
    Katherine Clarke, WSJ, 14 Mar. 2018
  • One end of the great room has a large, round turret with windows that give a wide view of the grounds.
    Judy Rose, Detroit Free Press, 8 Aug. 2021
  • It was built in the late 1800s and has ivy crawling up its stone turret.
    Paul Sullivan, New York Times, 12 May 2017
  • Now a pair of suites in the building’s two turrets are ready for their first guests.
    Jennifer Conrad, Vogue, 30 Sep. 2017
  • Maes was sent flying in the chaos, and his leg became trapped in the gear of a turret.
    Jason Duaine Hahn, PEOPLE.com, 21 Oct. 2019
  • On the road through the town, a Russian tank was blown in two, the turret lying on its side.
    James Verini, New York Times, 19 May 2022
  • Note the drone and cruise missile kill markings on the turret.
    Sébastien Roblin, Popular Mechanics, 1 Sep. 2023
  • On the Red Planet, the arm and turret will be used to study the Martian surface.
    Fox News, 31 July 2019
  • When the Traitors debrief in the turret, the atmosphere is tense.
    Molly Fitzpatrick, Vulture, 8 Feb. 2024
  • The soldier was not there for the tank’s engine or turret or treads.
    Thomas Gibbons-Neff Finbarr O’Reilly, New York Times, 13 Jan. 2024
  • The last Traitor standing, Kate resists the urge to do a Risky Business all alone in the turret.
    Molly Fitzpatrick, Vulture, 7 Mar. 2024
  • The owners’ suite, at 1,700 square feet, includes the second floor of the round turret.
    Judy Rose, Detroit Free Press, 12 Dec. 2020
  • And hey, there are turrets at the entrance now to cut down on griefing.
    Hayden Dingman, PCWorld, 18 Jan. 2019
  • On one side of the composition, a turret poked up at the sky.
    Dallas News, 24 May 2022
  • The mangled hull of a tank, its turret pointing lamely toward the sky, lay in a ditch by the side of the road.
    Joshua Yaffa, The New Yorker, 30 Jan. 2023
  • Jump in the laser turrets and fire back at pursuing craft.
    Borys Kit, The Hollywood Reporter, 14 Feb. 2018
  • There are turrets that they can be set up nearly anywhere on the map.
    Gieson Cacho, The Mercury News, 7 Mar. 2017
  • The tank pulled back, its turret right above the crater, and from 10 feet above their heads let off another round.
    Sarah A. Topol, New York Times, 20 Sep. 2024
  • The staircase winds its way up through the center of the home and through the turret, which provides access to the rooftop terrace.
    Jennifer Boehm, Sun-Sentinel.com, 3 Aug. 2017
  • On the first floor, the turret room holds the formal parlor; on the second floor is the master bedroom.
    Mary Jane Brewer, cleveland, 29 Aug. 2020
  • There are also four smoke grenade launchers mounted at the front on each side of the turret and at the rear there are two more.
    Allison Barrie, Fox News, 18 June 2018
  • Both planes were long-range four-engine heavy bombers armed with gun turrets.
    Arthur Hart, idahostatesman, 17 Feb. 2018
  • The interior of the front-facing turret has stone walls, stairs and a wrought iron handrail.
    Lauren Beale, Forbes, 7 Sep. 2021
  • The school looks like a house-sized castle, with a bright marigold facade, orange turrets and blue rooftops.
    Yanan Wang and Dake Kang, Fox News, 20 Sep. 2018
  • While driving slowly through Tikrit, the gun turret spotlight died on the M-1117.
    George Stanley, jsonline.com, 30 Aug. 2021
  • Parvati heads up to the turret, suspecting that the other traitors will turn out to be Janelle and Sandra.
    Molly Fitzpatrick, Vulture, 12 Jan. 2024

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