turnip
Example Sentences
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The winner takes home a turnip impaled on a rusty six inch nail in a block of wood as a trophy and a blue plaque.
From BBC • Dec. 2, 2025
In gatherings, they savored rice cakes and turnip cakes, with children receiving cash-stuffed red envelopes as blessings from their married relatives.
From Seattle Times • Feb. 9, 2024
We make a salad out of turnip sprouts.
From Los Angeles Times • May 29, 2023
This is why the following vegetables, which belong to the brassica family, have different tastes: broccoli, cabbage, kale, swede, wasabi, horseradish, turnip, rocket, watercress, cauliflower and mustard.
From Salon • Dec. 25, 2022
I stubbed my toe and near cut off my finger whilst peeling an old, tough turnip.
From "Chains" by Laurie Halse Anderson
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