Example Sentences

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Carrots, if you’re lucky, still taste faintly of earth and sugar.

From Salon • Mar. 1, 2026

It introduced shoppers to frozen yogurt at its Forty Carrots restaurant and to designers of the day, including Ralph Lauren, Perry Ellis and Norma Kamali.

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 27, 2026

"Carrots are a real focus for them. They even dig potatoes up, believe it or not. The big red deer dig potatoes out of the ground," he explained.

From BBC • Feb. 19, 2026

Carrots and papaya plants have already pushed up through a rectangle of dark soil, thanks to a technique based on organic fertilisers made from a mixture of compost and chicken manure.

From Barron's • Nov. 26, 2025

Carrots, lettuce, bell peppers, rice, and crumbled-up bread.

From "The Sky at Our Feet" by Nadia Hashimi