How to Use turnstile in a Sentence

turnstile

noun
  • Some will pass a badge over a turnstile to a friend who forgot his or hers.
    — Tiffany Hsu and Jack Nicas, New York Times, 5 Apr. 2018
  • Views are arranged through turnstiles, paths, guardrails, signs and walls.
    — New York Times, 27 June 2018
  • New stairs and turnstiles will be added at a number of stations.
    — Sarah Maslin Nir, New York Times, 13 Dec. 2017
  • Is that enough to keep the turnstiles moving and the beer sales flowing?
    — Ann Killion, San Francisco Chronicle, 29 Mar. 2023
  • On its face, baseball’s losingest team is rolling up the sales sleeves to stem the turnstile tide.
    — Bryce Miller, sandiegouniontribune.com, 22 May 2017
  • Workers swiped badges and poured through turnstile doors onto the main floor.
    — Mark Glover, sacbee, 9 Feb. 2018
  • But the record station was empty, the turnstile still.
    — Cesar Hernandez, San Francisco Chronicle, 6 Jan. 2026
  • So my dad and his friends would carry it over the turnstile and no one said anything to them.
    — Ed Masley, AZCentral.com, 26 Feb. 2026
  • As a result, there might as well have been a turnstile to and from the head coach’s office.
    — Kevin Kurz, The Athletic, 16 Jan. 2025
  • Mendoza follows her across a platform and even slows down to wait for her at the turnstiles.
    — Paulina Dedaj, Fox News, 28 July 2018
  • There’s the click when the turnstile turns, a beep when the ticket is accepted.
    — Andy Mitten, New York Times, 19 Nov. 2025
  • The system does not use gates or turnstiles to access platforms.
    — Ray Sanchez, CNN Money, 14 Sep. 2025
  • Yes, this place is so popular that there’s an amusement-park style turnstile in front of the deli counter.
    — Kara Baskin, BostonGlobe.com, 3 July 2018
  • Not with the Seahawks line going into turnstile mode right from the snap.
    — Steven Ruiz, USA TODAY, 19 Sep. 2017
  • Swipe through the turnstiles and back onto the train which takes forever for some reason.
    — R29 Team, refinery29.com, 14 Feb. 2024
  • The Lynx is something of an honor system in that there is no turnstile to walk through.
    — Steve Harrison, charlotteobserver, 30 Jan. 2018
  • In the newspaper box score, the no-show and turnstile totals were listed side by side.
    — Ryan O’Halloran, The Denver Post, 22 Dec. 2019
  • The National League had lost the war at the turnstiles, and was ready to deal.
    — Cincinnati Enquirer, Cincinnati.com, 27 June 2018
  • The Panthers will need to keep pushing through this turnstile in the trenches.
    — Mike Kaye, Charlotte Observer, 2 Nov. 2025
  • Mickles left through the turnstile, then tried to re-enter through the emergency gate.
    — Matt Robison, Newsweek, 20 Nov. 2024
  • But, hey, there’s a lot going on at turnstiles alongside the Merc with the Mouth.
    — Nancy Tartaglione, Deadline, 11 Aug. 2024
  • The turnstiles at Fenway keep spinning.
    — Ken Rosenthal, New York Times, 26 Apr. 2026
  • The gates to the closer’s role seem to churn as fast as the turnstiles at Globe Life Field.
    — Dallas News, 21 Feb. 2023
  • For five desultory seasons the Bees were a bust both at the turnstiles and in the standings.
    — Bob Greene, WSJ, 4 Oct. 2018
  • In order to keep guests streaming through the turnstiles, theme parks need to build new attractions and that comes at a high price.
    — Caroline Reid, Forbes.com, 7 Aug. 2025
  • The small crowd that has gathered on the other side of the turnstiles breaks into a mix of heckling and applause.
    — Molly Ball, Time, 29 Oct. 2025
  • The rail does not use gates or turnstiles to control traffic onto the boarding platform.
    — Nick Sullivan, Charlotte Observer, 11 Sep. 2025
  • And stupid, jumping the turnstile in the subway station with like a few pounds of weed in my backpack and all that money.
    — Brian Hiatt, Rolling Stone, 16 Aug. 2023
  • An emissions figure stops being a statistic and starts being a turnstile.
    — Dara-Abasi Ita, Forbes.com, 13 June 2026
  • His gun gone, Joey attempts to escape, charging through the turnstile and trying to make it to the street.
    — Mark Jacobson, Vulture, 11 Dec. 2021

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