turnip

Example Sentences

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Boonthom had noticed her packing the harvested fruit — a turnip variety Yo describes as a “cross between a potato and an apple” — and had been love-struck.

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 20, 2023

While most dark green vegetables — especially collard greens, broccoli raab, turnip greens and kale — provide calcium, spinach and beet greens contain oxalic acid, which makes their calcium unavailable to us.

From Seattle Times • Sep. 18, 2023

Historically, the word "turnip" didn't only refer to the round purple root, but root vegetables of various shapes, colors and sizes.

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

Beetle had been to fairs, but only to beg a turnip or some pig bones for a stew, and never had her belly been full enough for her to lift her head and look around.

From "The Midwife's Apprentice" by Karen Cushman