Sentence examples of "Retournons" in French with translation "turn"
Il se retourna contre la religion dans laquelle il avait été élevé.
He turned with a vengeance against the religion he was brought up in.
La vie même est la tombe dans laquelle je suis en train de me retourner.
Life itself is the tomb where I'm turning over.
L'étudiant abattit cinq de ses camarades de classe et puis retourna l'arme contre lui.
The student shot five of his classmates and then turned the gun on himself.
C'était une si belle fille que tout le monde se retournait pour la regarder quand elle passait.
She was such a beautiful girl that everybody turned to look at her as she passed.
Mary prétendait que Tom était trois mots devant lui, alors que quand il se retourna, il vit qu'entre elle et lui, il n'y en avait bien que deux.
Mary argued that Tom stood three words ahead of her, although when he turned back, he saw that, between she and he, there were only two.
Il fut un temps où Christophe Colomb défia un autre navigateur en duel. Ce dernier, un homme vicieux, ne fit pas 10 pas, comme dicté dans les règles, mais 2, puis il se retourna pour tirer. Malheureusement pour lui, Colomb ne fit aucun pas.
There was a time when Christopher Columbus challenged another explorer to a duel. The latter, an underhanded chap, did not take ten steps - as dictated by the rules - but two, then turned around to shoot. Unfortunately for him, Columbus hadn't taken any steps at all.
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