cold turkey
Example Sentences
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It was after tallying my December spending that I finally deleted them cold turkey in January.
From Salon ● Mar. 3, 2026
“It was terrifying. You can’t just go cold turkey on these things,” he said.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 26, 2025
"We went cold turkey really, but we managed it. We've just got used to living without Russian pipeline gas," explains Dr Jack Sharples, senior research fellow at the Oxford Institute for Energy Studies.
From BBC ● Feb. 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
