volte face in English
noun
1
an act of turning around so as to face in the opposite direction.
Then, off to my right around 10 metres, the shark bent, twisted and went volte-face on a sixpence, gathering speed as it cruised back toward me.
Use "volte face" in a sentence
Below are sample sentences containing the word "volte face" from the English Dictionary. We can refer to these sentence patterns for sentences in case of finding sample sentences with the word "volte face", or refer to the context using the word "volte face" in the English Dictionary.
1. Interestingly, as Marc Galanter has observed, the report of the Commission despite the “last minute volte –face by the Chairperson of the Commission” considered caste a relevant criterion to determine Backwardness.