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

Starting with a super cold turkey will result in a longer roasting time.

From Salon • Nov. 25, 2024

"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

And if Jackie is getting up at 4:30 to test-roast three turkeys, I’m texting her turkey and bulging-bicep emojis and joyously eating cold turkey under conference room lighting at noon.

From Seattle Times • Nov. 16, 2023

In the evening, as the sky and most of the land turned red, they sat together eating cold turkey drumsticks and wearing green-shaded glasses to watch the lava burn.

From "The Assassination of Brangwain Spurge" by M.T. Anderson and Eugene Yelchin