turnip
Example Sentences
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In gatherings, they savored rice cakes and turnip cakes, with children receiving cash-stuffed red envelopes as blessings from their married relatives.
From Seattle Times • Feb. 9, 2024
We make a salad out of turnip sprouts.
From Los Angeles Times • May 29, 2023
But why do we now look down on the faithful turnip — was it always so unloved?
From Salon • Mar. 30, 2023
It has now been discovered that this contained an ironmongers, which sold the working classes everything from spades and shovels to turnip cutters and candles.
From BBC • Sep. 2, 2022
Marie- Laure still cannot wear shoes that are too large, or smell a boiled turnip, without experiencing revulsion.
From "All the Light We Cannot See" by Anthony Doerr
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