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How to use turret in a sentence

13 example sentences · noun

Turret means a little tower, frequently a merely ornamental structure at one of the corners of a building or castle. Example: “Their Victorian house had three turrets and a large amount of gingerbread trim.”

Examples of turret by meaning

nounA little tower, frequently a merely ornamental structure at one of the corners of a building or castle.

  • Their Victorian house had three turrets and a large amount of gingerbread trim.

More sentences with turret

  • The Army decommissioned the Sherman tank by filling the turret with cement.From the entry decommission
  • The one-metre-long model of the Bismarck was built exactly to scale, with moving turrets.From the entry to scale
  • Because of the dangers of crumbling masonry, the castle turrets are no longer visitable by the public.From the entry visitable
  • I can't believe I just died to a turret!From the entry die
  • A beretless loader-operator with grizzled jaws stuck his head out of a nearby turret.1967, Geoffrey Wagner, “The Conscience of Their Kind”, in The Sands of Valor, New York, N.Y.: Alfred A. Knopf, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 335. From the entry beretless
  • The few flags that could be seen above various turrets hung limply from their mastheads.1950, Mervyn Peake, Gormenghast, London: Eyre & Spottiswoode, →OCLC. From the entry shrewdity
  • An officer makes his way through the maelstrom to report a serious fire in one of the turrets.2019 September 18, Drachinifel, 21:07 from the start, in Battle of Tsushima - When the 2nd Pacific Squadron thought it couldn't get any…. From the entry maelstrom
  • Breakfast was taken alongside a curious tank without a turret.2006, David Fiddimore, Charlie's War, London: Pan Books, →ISBN, page 186. From the entry tankie
  • When I asked about it a tankie sergeant said, 'It's a Kangaroo: that's a Sherman without a turret.2006, David Fiddimore, Charlie's War, London: Pan Books, →ISBN, page 186. From the entry tankie
  • Ancient cities, on the other hand, were fortresses based upon technologies of obstruction designed to freeze and arrest such dromospheric assaults with battlements, turrets, archers, moats, parapets, bastions, etc.2012, John David Ebert, The Age of Catastrophe: Disaster and Humanity in Modern Times, →ISBN. From the entry dromospheric
  • The Central Asian mihaffa (a sort of wooden turret suspended from two poles between two camels used at the time of travelling) was also common in India.2004, Mansura Haidar, Indo-Central Asian Relations from Early Times to Medieval Period, page 181. From the entry mihaffa
  • Each turret also has a washing-out system for each gun and an electric smoke blower for blowing the smoke and gases from the bore of the guns.1904 June, “The United States battleship Virginia”, in Marine Engineering, volume 9, number 6, page 250. From the entry smoke blower

Meaning of turret

  1. noun A little tower, frequently a merely ornamental structure at one of the corners of a building or castle.
  2. noun A siege tower; a movable building, of a square form, consisting of ten or even twenty stories and sometimes one hundred and twenty cubits high, usually moved on wheels, and employed in approaching a fortified place, for carrying soldiers, engines, ladders, casting bridges, and other necessaries.
  3. noun A tower-like solder post on a turret board (a circuit board with posts instead of holes).

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Questions about turret in a sentence

How do you use turret in a sentence?
Turret is used as a noun. For example: “Their Victorian house had three turrets and a large amount of gingerbread trim.”
What is a short sentence with turret?
“I can't believe I just died to a turret!”
What does turret mean?
Turret means a little tower, frequently a merely ornamental structure at one of the corners of a building or castle.

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