Translations for „turn aside“ in the English » German Dictionary

I . turn aside VB intr

to turn aside [from sth]

sich acc [von etw dat ] abwenden a. fig

II . turn aside VB trans

to turn sth aside

etw abwenden

Examples from the PONS Dictionary (editorially verified)

to turn aside

sich acc zur Seite drehen

Monolingual examples (not verified by PONS Editors)

English

They will turn their ears away from the truth and turn aside to myths.

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Being able, because you are employed, to stay off welfare, to turn aside from handouts -- this is good for the environment of human dignity.

news.nationalpost.com

That you do not turn aside to the right or to the left.

opinion.inquirer.net

Is there still time to turn aside?

blogs.telegraph.co.uk

Apparently, the challenge was too enticing to turn aside.

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It may be that human emotion flows in vast waves, and that we have arrived at a moment of frenzy that even governmental reform can not turn aside.

foreignpolicy.com

Poetry was, he thought, a "natural, heady diversion", both a way of making the reader turn aside and an entertainment.

www.telegraph.co.uk

It is also, of course, a way of making the poet turn aside.

www.telegraph.co.uk

When faced with terrible choices of our own we may be tempted to turn aside from what we really know to be right for fear of the consequences.

www.huffingtonpost.com

Active unionists, especially those who hold office, are beset by a thousand temptations to turn aside from the road of the class struggle.

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