cold turkey
Example Sentences
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“It was terrifying. You can’t just go cold turkey on these things,” he said.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 26, 2025
While it won’t kill you like some other vices, trying to quit this spiritually corrosive habit cold turkey is inadvisable.
From Salon ● Dec. 3, 2025
I went cold turkey, I don’t know how I did it.
From BBC ● Aug. 25, 2024
The best thing to do about racism, he posits, is to just give it up, cold turkey, by announcing that we’re all good now.
From Slate ● Jun. 29, 2023
The truth was, I could no sooner quit cello cold turkey than I could stop breathing.
From "If I Stay" by Gayle Forman
