turns up

present tense third-person singular of turn up

Example Sentences

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Recent Examples of turns up Come nighttime, La Plaza, the resort’s open courtyard resembling a town square, dims the lights and turns up the volume to the beats of international DJs. Jennifer Fernández Solano, Forbes.com, 20 July 2026 The one god who periodically turns up, Zendaya’s Athena – supposedly Ulysses’ divine protector against the wrath of Zeus and Poseidon and all the rest – has surprisingly little to do in this version. Peter Rainer, Christian Science Monitor, 16 July 2026 Keep your head held high, as Cancer season turns up the volume around career, ambition and public visibility. Valerie Mesa, PEOPLE, 21 June 2026 Queen of Hearts and The Girl with the Needle actress Trine Dyrholm co-stars a woman estranged from children who turns up uninvited at a weekend-long naming party for her son’s firstborn child at a luxury season resort. Melanie Goodfellow, Deadline, 11 June 2026 In her follow-up, Blanche, Dorothy, Rose and Sophia attend a fancy party on an island estate; when the host turns up dead, Blanche becomes a suspect, leaving the women with no choice but to find the real killer. Michael Schaub, Oc Register, 11 June 2026 But as the night wanes on, the music turns up. Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 4 June 2026 And if nothing turns up, consider starting one yourself. Angela Haupt, Time, 19 May 2026 Bum-seok seems done for until Sung-ae turns up with a cop car full of military-grade weapons to slow the thing down. David Rooney, HollywoodReporter, 17 May 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for turns up
Verb
  • The building appears to be still in the framing stage with workers making adjustments to the concrete pylons as cars zip past.
    Harrison Mantas, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 22 July 2026
  • Discovered by Apple’s community on Reddit, on highlighting text, a small pop-up appears with contextual options including rewrite and proofread, edit with Siri or various summarizing options.
    Ewan Spence, Forbes.com, 22 July 2026
Verb
  • Simply hang a menu card outside your room before midnight, and breakfast arrives on a silver tray.
    Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 30 July 2026
  • Homeowners planning fall planting have a narrow window to add shade before next summer arrives.
    Lauren Jarvis-Gibson, Charlotte Observer, 30 July 2026
Verb
  • The show finds ways to expose the worst in its characters, their pettiest, most vengeful, greediest parts.
    Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Times, 3 Aug. 2026
  • Also screening is Andrey Zvyagintsev’s Minotaur, another feature from Cannes, following a successful company director called Gleb, who finds himself under siege from mounting corporate pressures and an increasingly unstable world.
    Lily Ford, HollywoodReporter, 3 Aug. 2026
Verb
  • Cohen added that showcasing the local food scene and culture alongside all the drama that unfolds on a trip has become essential to these episodes.
    Meredith Lepore, Travel + Leisure, 1 Aug. 2026
  • Measurement platforms such as Tubular Labs evaluate creator performance across measurement windows of one, three, seven and 30 days because creator influence unfolds over time rather than in a single moment.
    Zoe Soon, Forbes.com, 31 July 2026
Verb
  • Today marks exactly one year until millions of people experience one of the most anticipated astronomical events of modern times — and the countdown comes just 10 days before mainland Europe’s first total solar eclipse since 1999.
    Jamie Carter, Forbes.com, 2 Aug. 2026
  • Spohrer said that with this new property under state jurisdiction comes regulations.
    Sooji Nam, CBS News, 1 Aug. 2026
Verb
  • The next edge is AI that truly learns from each interaction rather than just recomputing every answer.
    Expert Panel®, Forbes.com, 31 July 2026
  • As Tony learns on one privileged day in the otherwise empty restaurant, the man even makes his own ketchup!
    Owen Gleiberman, Variety, 29 July 2026
Verb
  • The video shows several people standing on the left side, with the transit agency blurring their faces to not completely shame them.
    Mike Stunson, USA Today, 29 July 2026
  • The movie shows you that there’s a Zen to the kitchen, and that all of life can grow out of that.
    Owen Gleiberman, Variety, 29 July 2026
Verb
  • Everything, however, will change come Monday as that’s when the team finally gets in pads.
    Miami Herald, Miami Herald, 2 Aug. 2026
  • Similarly, Lindsey Bomgren, a personal trainer based in Minneapolis, gets in her steps each morning while using her phone’s talk-to-text app to draft emails and write herself notes.
    Jennifer Heimlich, Time, 27 July 2026

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