turn to

verb

turned to; turning to; turns to

intransitive verb

: to apply oneself to work : act vigorously

… all hands turn to and build a church and a jail …

—Mark Twain

Examples of turn to in a Sentence

no need to turn to violence when we can talk things out peacefully

Recent Examples on the Web

The Royals turned to Daniel Lynch IV and Steven Cruz to finish the game. — Kansas City Star, 30 July 2026

Justin Halpern, the comic mind behind ‘S— My Dad Says,’ ‘Harley Quinn’ and ‘Abbott Elementary,’ turns to fiction writing with ‘Get Lost,’ a baseball novel about talent, failure and family. — Stuart Miller, Los Angeles Times, 29 July 2026

Left medically treated, but isolated and lonely, children turn to television shows or video games as substitutes for human connection. — Anna Tsioulias, STAT, 29 July 2026

Perhaps not surprisingly, my experts turned to their brand’s own products as being top of the line. — Rachel Burchfield, Forbes.com, 29 July 2026

Word History

First Known Use

1799, in the meaning defined above

Rhymes for turn to

• accrue
• ado
• ainu
• aircrew
• airscrew
• anew
• askew
• baboo
• babu
• bamboo
• beaucoup
• bijou