turnip
Example Sentences
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While most dark green vegetables — especially collard greens, broccoli raab, turnip greens and kale — provide calcium, spinach and beet greens contain oxalic acid, which makes their calcium unavailable to us.
From Seattle Times • Sep. 18, 2023
We make a salad out of turnip sprouts.
From Los Angeles Times • May 29, 2023
But why do we now look down on the faithful turnip — was it always so unloved?
From Salon • Mar. 30, 2023
"Now they're just squeezing us so hard, like blood out of a turnip."
From BBC • Dec. 2, 2022
I dropped the turnip I was peeling and it rolled across the floor.
From "Chains" by Laurie Halse Anderson
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