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Make a u turn vs Do a u turn

Both "make a U-turn" and "do a U-turn" are correct and commonly used phrases in English. They are interchangeable and convey the same meaning. The choice between them is a matter of personal preference.

Last updated: March 26, 2024 • 1150 views

Make a u turn

This phrase is correct and commonly used in English.

This phrase is used to instruct someone to turn their vehicle in the shape of a U to go in the opposite direction.

Examples:

The GPS instructed me to make a U-turn at the next intersection.
The driver realized he was going the wrong way and decided to make a U-turn.

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Make a U turn as soon as possible.
Make a U-turn at the next intersection.
'Make a U-turn when possible.
When possible, please make a U-turn.
Make a U-turn on Flint Street...
Make a U-turn at the light.
Any minute the Spaceballs will make a U-turn, head back this way and make us all dead.
Pull up here, make a u-turn at the stop sign, proceed through the exit gate.
All right, so we drop the frigidaire off at the docks, make a u-turn...
FEMALE VOICE: Make a U-turn, if possible.
The ambitions of China and India will probably push this even further if we do not ultimately make a U-turn.
The money concerned cannot be spent until Belgrade makes a U-turn, but that will only happen if the opposition can express itself.
Look, I know I just got back, but it turns out I have to make a U-turn, head back up to Lexington, and fast.
If we want to make it to Kyoto, we will have to make a U-turn.
Pull up here, make a u-turn at the stop sign, proceed through the exit gate.
No, wait, make a U-turn!
Make a U-turn at the next legal opportunity.
The new Corvettes had just come in, so I stopped right on the spot, I make a U-turn and I buy one.
All credit is due to the Commission, which, via Mr Lamy in Doha and Mr Fischler, wants to make a U-turn through agricultural reform proposals.
As far as I am concerned, it would actually be a good thing if Dutch policy, an international anomaly, came under pressure from European countries to make a U-turn.

Alternatives:

perform a U-turn
execute a U-turn
take a U-turn
turn around

Do a u turn

This phrase is correct and commonly used in English.

This phrase is also used to instruct someone to turn their vehicle in the shape of a U to go in the opposite direction.

Examples:

The sign said 'No U-turns,' but the driver decided to do a U-turn anyway.
She missed her exit and had to do a U-turn to get back on track.

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If you get blocked, then you can do a u-turn.
I'll even do a U-turn on the M5 if I have to.
Wait. You can't do a U-turn on your dream.
We cannot do a U-turn on this success, but instead we must protect, strengthen and develop it.
I was standing against the wall and I saw a cab do a U-turn and pull up to the curb.
I can't exactly do a u-turn here.
Every time I see a pickup truck do a U-turn, I think it's coming after me and I'm shaking so badly, I have to stop what I'm doing.
Since the workers' struggles in Greece, Ireland and Portugal have been in vain, as we know, it is time to do a U-turn and to stop insisting on benefiting only economic and financial business groups, above all in the major European powers.
Today, without trying to be party political, I am launching a big petition in my own country to try to make the French President who initiated the European mini-treaty do a U-turn and offer a referendum.
So when my mother used to take me to school, she thought I was at school, and I used to do a U-turn, when her back was turned, and run off and hide in the shed at the back of the garden.
Mr President-in-Office of the Council, our aversion to your politics and your government, as you know, is deep-rooted, and it would not make sense for us to do a U-turn now that your politics are being applied to Europe and not just Italy.
The ambitions of China and India will probably push this even further if we do not ultimately make a U-turn.
Is it in order that PPE-DE Group can do a complete U-turn and table an oral amendment that is the opposite of its original amendment?
Make a U turn as soon as possible.
And I appreciate your concern, but two deaths are nowhere near enough to warrant a U-turn.
First chance we get, we're doing a U-turn.
Make a U-turn at the next intersection.
'Make a U-turn when possible.
When possible, please make a U-turn.
Make a U-turn on Flint Street...

Alternatives:

make a U-turn
perform a U-turn
execute a U-turn
take a U-turn

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