turnip

Example Sentences

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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

I'm partial to celeriac, rutabaga, turnip, radish and the like.

From Salon • May 14, 2023

It has now been discovered that this contained an ironmongers, which sold the working classes everything from spades and shovels to turnip cutters and candles.

From BBC • Sep. 2, 2022

Mabel pulled out another turnip and took a bite.

From "The Underground Railroad: A Novel" by Colson Whitehead