at every turn

Idioms  

1. Everywhere; also, continually, at every moment. For example, He found trash strewn about at every turn, or Life holds surprises at every turn. The turn here does not signify change of direction but change of circumstances, and the phrase generally is something of an exaggeration. [Late 1500s]

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Example Sentences

Watch as the fluid camerawork makes her kills look nastier, and the preposterous script allows her to outwit her foes, even with the cards stacked against her at every turn.

From Salon

"Having it constantly brought up and thrown in our faces at every turn, at every channel you turn on, the front page of a magazine in the grocery store line, social media, what have you, it doesn't allow us to heal," she said.

From BBC

"At every turn, I was like, this is going way too well," she recalls.

From BBC

Beirne wasn't player of the match - that was Caelan Doris - but it could have been him or Stu McCloskey or any number of others - but he was massively influential, a symbol of what Ireland have in abundance and what Scotland don't have enough off - power, aggression, ruthlessness at every turn.

From BBC

Still, it’s a standout for reasons of its own, not least of which is the TWA nostalgia at every turn.

From The Wall Street Journal

Related Words

• haphazardly
• randomly