How to Use about-face in a Sentence

about-face

noun
  • The swiftness of the campaign’s about-face may be to blame.
    — Paige Hagy, Fortune, 4 Nov. 2023
  • There’s no real path for the league to do an about-face.
    — Danny Emerman, The Mercury News, 8 Dec. 2024
  • One of the biggest shifts in sports has been the about-face on gambling.
    — Jacob Feldman, Sportico.com, 27 July 2024
  • The song is a bit of an about-face for the cocky demi-god voiced by Dwayne Johnson.
    — Maureen Lee Lenker, EW.com, 28 Nov. 2024
  • But the sudden about-face of Prigozhin’s troops appeared to have eased the crisis for now.
    — Washington Post Staff, Washington Post, 24 June 2023
  • The show simply did not earn this about-face on Stannis’s part.
    — Erik Kain, Forbes, 9 Feb. 2024
  • The downturn is an about-face from what occurred at the height of the pandemic.
    — Tori Latham, Robb Report, 28 July 2023
  • Here are the factors leading up to Trump’s about-face on crypto.
    — Andrew R. Chow, TIME, 22 May 2024
  • No matter the reason for its about-face, Apple is late to the party.
    — Chris Velazco, Washington Post, 17 Nov. 2023
  • The result is an about-face from dry, brittle hair to soft, shiny tresses.
    — Sharon Brandwein, Southern Living, 8 Aug. 2024
  • For Golden State, the trade is a rapid about-face on the 24-year-old Poole, whom the team once viewed as a promising bridge out of the Curry era.
    — Sopan Deb, New York Times, 22 June 2023
  • Kennedy kept his about-face, as another guest soon tried to change the subject.
    — Prem Thakker, The New Republic, 13 July 2023
  • The Nasdaq was being hit the hardest in Tuesday’s about-face.
    — Matthew J. Belvedere, CNBC, 7 Jan. 2025
  • Jack Dorsey is doing an about-face on Elon Musk’s Twitter takeover.
    — Tori Latham, Robb Report, 1 May 2023
  • The abrupt about-face has scrambled life for hundreds of thousands of migrants who came here and planned to stay.
    — Kate Linthicum, Los Angeles Times, 12 Dec. 2024
  • The Post has similarly been critiqued for the last-minute about-face.
    — Liam Reilly, CNN, 26 Oct. 2024
  • But Tuesday, Little signed a bill that appeared to be an about-face.
    — Katherine Jones, Idaho Statesman, 5 Mar. 2025
  • The grill industry isn’t a stranger to slumps or about-face shifts in consumer demand.
    — Erika Tulfo, CNN, 30 June 2024
  • The post didn’t allow comments, but that didn’t stop the online discourse over his about-face.
    — Philissa Cramer, Sun Sentinel, 17 Mar. 2025
  • Not all progressives agreed with the caucus’s about-face.
    — Jonathan B. Petkun, Foreign Affairs, 18 June 2024
  • Some outsiders were embarrassed by the board's about-face.
    — Kelly Meyerhofer, Journal Sentinel, 1 Apr. 2024
  • The about-face was a long time coming, but still felt jarring thanks to the rushed nature of the show in its final two seasons.
    — Erik Kain, Forbes, 19 Jan. 2025
  • The about-face didn't necessarily give the bill a clear path to passage.
    — John Raby, ajc, 10 Mar. 2023
  • Ready to reassess your financial plan and make a strategic about-face?
    — USA TODAY, 21 July 2024
  • However, that changed the morning of the show, when she was announced as a last-minute performer in a surprise about-face.
    — Glenn Rowley, Billboard, 13 Mar. 2023
  • Mnuchin’s about-face echoes, in some ways, the go-fast-and-break-things approach to policy making that Trump and his team preferred.
    — Lila MacLellan, Fortune, 8 Aug. 2024
  • Any such population correction would be a stark about-face from the growth the world has seen over the last two centuries.
    — Tim Newcomb, Popular Mechanics, 21 Aug. 2023
  • The vote was an about-face for the committee, which had declined to release the report in November.
    — Josh Meyer, USA TODAY, 23 Dec. 2024
  • So is that sort of about-face a possibility for Baldwin, Depp and Smith?
    — Marco Della Cava, USA Today, 19 May 2025
  • The about-face comes as the reality of the city’s budget situation comes into sharper focus.
    — Elliott Wenzler, Denver Post, 19 May 2025

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