carrot
Example Sentences
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“I’d much prefer the carrot, but I’m not afraid of the stick,” he said.
Mr. Smit set out before him the incriminating evidence he had found: two spoons and a piece of carrot on the stairs, pipe ashes in an “unoccupied” bedroom.
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There were carrots sometimes, even apples once or twice.
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It accumulated in higher concentrations throughout the plant, including the edible carrot roots, tomato fruits, and lettuce leaves.
From Science Daily
"There has to be a big stick and a big carrot here," he argues.
From BBC
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.