to refuse to let someone come into a place
He looked at it and then just laughed in my face and turned away.
He turns away from people and buildings to trees and landscape.
His whole instinct was to turn away, get to the boat fast and go from this place at once.
Immigration controls are proving so tricky that artists from abroad are turning away rather than face the complexity of trying to get here.
No one is turned away.
People can use the service up to three times a year, although in practice no one would be turned away in an emergency.
Political conviction and universal wisdom are causing young people to turn away from literature in their millions.
Reporters who visited the team’s training ground were turned away.
She murmured something belligerent and turned away.
She was standing at the sink now with her face turned away from him.
Should you get turned away at this point, seek out the back door.
Something anodyne about turning away from sin and rejecting evil.
They often begin and end with the physical action of turning away or turning around.
They spend their days confronting the stuff that most people want to turn away from.
They went closest to snatching it, seeing at least one penalty claim turned away and the ball scrambled away from under the post.
They’re family – I could hardly turn them away!
Too many potential suitable adoptive parents are getting turned away because they may not be the right ethnic match, are overweight or may have smoked.
When these people turn away from the game, it is a dangerous portent.
While smoking, I watch a woman in a ludicrous pink party frock and a tiny top hat getting turned away by incredulous bouncers.
Would-be first-time buyers are not the only ones being turned away by lenders.
turns away
turning away
turned away
There is no origin for this phrasal verb
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