How to Use U-turn in a Sentence

U-turn

noun

• So Galas pulled a U-turn to return to the club and was pulled over in the process.
  — Peter Breen, Chicago Tribune, 16 Nov. 2024
• Sweatt then made a U-turn at a high rate of speed and struck the victim in the road.
  — Marc Fortier, NBC News, 8 Apr. 2024
• The cat made a deft U-turn, scampered out of the trap, and vanished.
  — Jonathan Franzen, The New Yorker, 25 Dec. 2023
• This marked a U-turn from the first two years of the pandemic.
  — Rachel Lerman, Anchorage Daily News, 9 Apr. 2023
• What’s the biggest design U-turn of the past two decades?
  — The Editors, Robb Report, 30 Mar. 2025
• This blink-and-you’ll-miss-it shack on the side of Granbury Road is worth making the U-turn for.
  — Sydni Walker, Dallas News, 18 Sep. 2023
• The Durango made a U-turn as soon as the light turned green.
  — Grethel Aguila, Miami Herald, 27 Feb. 2025
• The Durango made a U-turn as soon as the light turned green.
  — Grethel Aguila, Miami Herald, 3 May 2024
• The driver later made a U-turn and went the wrong way on the freeway.
  — Cameron MacDonald, The Mercury News, 16 Mar. 2024
• Darnold's vehicle then made a U-turn and left the scene.
  — Andrea Vacchiano, Fox News, 29 June 2023
• These are men of a certain age who spent decades in gangs, then made a moral U-turn in the joint.
  — Paul Solotaroff, Rolling Stone, 11 May 2025
• Jen then did a U-turn by adding beachy waves to her 2024 hair repertoire.
  — Fiona Embleton, Glamour, 2 Aug. 2024
• Once that happens, the bull shark pulls an abrupt U-turn and charts a wide course around the massive croc.
  — Steven Hill, Field & Stream, 27 July 2023
• Murray slaps on his police lights and siren and makes a sharp U-turn.
  — Briah Lumpkins, Charlotte Observer, 6 Mar. 2025
• Because of that, the plane was forced to make a quick U-turn back to the boarding bridge where SLC police were called.
  — Andy Kalmowitz / Jalopnik, Quartz, 22 Mar. 2024
• But over the course of its third term, the party made a U-turn and hardened its stance on rapprochement with the West.
  — Democrat-Gazette Staff From Wire Reports, arkansasonline.com, 27 Oct. 2024
• The policy U-turn in Washington hits at the heart of the dilemma.
  — Ellie Cook, Newsweek, 18 Dec. 2024
• After the 18-year-old driver made a U-turn, Chandra stayed with them.
  — Jonathan Edwards, Washington Post, 19 July 2023
• The driver made a U-turn, tracing back toward the rapper.
  — Emily Palmer, Peoplemag, 26 July 2023
• The car then made a U-turn, and its driver got out and started shooting at the teens, who took off running.
  — City News Service, San Diego Union-Tribune, 21 Dec. 2023
• The car then made a U-turn, and its driver got out and started shooting at the teens, who took off running.
  — City News Service, San Diego Union-Tribune, 31 Jan. 2025
• Kizzee made a U-turn in front of deputies, dropped his bike on the sidewalk and ran, according to the department.
  — Ben Poston, Los Angeles Times, 10 June 2023
• Moulton was seen making a fast U-turn over a curb and pulling over on a side street before pulling Grabow out of his car.
  — Robert Salonga, The Mercury News, 26 Jan. 2024
• The Accord drove past him, then made a U-turn, a witness told detectives.
  — Matthew Ormseth, Los Angeles Times, 24 May 2025
• This is quite the U-turn, even for the notoriously boom-to-bust oil market.
  — Matt Egan, CNN, 5 Oct. 2023
• The giant swordfish made a hard run on the surface and then did a U-turn, swimming directly at the boat.
  — Dac Collins, Outdoor Life, 22 Nov. 2023
• The most her father can do now is go past the privacy curtain to the doorway, then, at the doorway, make a slow U-turn back to the bed.
  — Weike Wang, The Atlantic, 26 Oct. 2024
• Denver has whipped a U-turn and its defense is starting to perform.
  — Sam Farmer, Los Angeles Times, 16 Nov. 2023
• The witness made a U-turn to intervene.
  — Sarah Rumpf-Whitten, FOXNews.com, 21 Jan. 2026
• The suspect continued westbound on Norhoff Street, then made a U-turn and drove away.
  — Matthew Rodriguez, CBS News, 19 Jan. 2026