turn up

• “As he preceded her into the small parlor and reached to turn up the lamp she saw on his wrist and hand livid purple-brown bruises, as though impossibly powerful fingers had all but crushed the bones.”

  Simon & Schuster: Ishmael

• “And the eurocracy prefers buying time in the Micawberish hope that something will turn up to keep Euroland from fracturing, rather than face reality.”

  The Wall Street Journal: Europe's Daily Soap Opera Keeps Rolling

• “In an effort to stop worrying, do we just manufacture some sort of emotionalized faith, quote some Bible verses, and turn up the “praise” music on the radio?”

  Simon & Schuster: HOW EVIL WORKS

• “Harry Humphreys and Sam Hussey turn up on some Saturdays, while Joey Long debarks the logs.”

  Simon & Schuster: Morgan’s Run

• “He kept hoping it would turn up where the trees are regenerating, as in woods like Slough Grove.”

  Simon & Schuster: Wildwood

• ““If you were supervisor, and one of your CSIs was a former stock-car racer, and you had a case turn up at a speedway…who would you send?””

  Simon & Schuster: Sin City

• “• Girls and boys can go bare-bottomed all day during summer months and inside during the winter, if you turn up the heat.”

  Simon & Schuster: pottytrain your child in just one day

• “Iturned off the phone and ordered Paula not to keep me posted on anything that Clara might turn up on the net.”

  Simon & Schuster: Walls of Silence

• “That search did not turn up the bomb hidden in his ankle-high hiking boots and the next day Reid successfully boarded the same flight for Miami.”

  Simon & Schuster: The Longest War

• “When Thomas made the effort to turn up the supernatural come-hither, women literally couldn't tell him no.”

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