How to Use cold turkey in a Sentence

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• So to go off if it cold turkey, that’s what caused all of this.
  — Christina Dugan, PEOPLE.com, 5 June 2019
• The first step is going cold turkey for about a month, both Lembke and Duffy said.
  — Madeline Holcombe, CNN, 30 Oct. 2021
• This is exactly what Link does when Amelia is left with four kids and a cold turkey in the oven.
  — Lincee Ray, EW.com, 19 Nov. 2021
• At lunch in the detox ward, everyone got the same thing: two pieces of wheat toast wrapped in foil with slices of cold turkey.
  — Katrine Jo Andersen, The New Republic, 27 June 2018
• For me, quitting face wipes cold turkey was the hardest part.
  — Meirav Devash, Allure, 15 Oct. 2018
• These guys are never going to be able to go cold turkey.
  — Bill Shaikin, Los Angeles Times, 4 May 2020
• Giving up all that sugar from drinks and snacks, cold turkey, made for a nice headache.
  — courier-journal.com, 13 May 2020
• Amy, when my father had a stroke, he was forced to stop smoking, cold turkey.
  — Amy Dickinson, chicagotribune.com, 2 June 2018
• The trout were forced to quit cold turkey after two months of swimming in meth-y waters.
  — Shi En Kim, Smithsonian Magazine, 9 July 2021
• What if the Warriors went cold turkey on the crybabying?
  — Scott Ostler, San Francisco Chronicle, 9 Dec. 2017
• Going cold turkey is tough and may set you up for failure.
  — Sandee Lamotte, CNN, 3 Sep. 2019
• On March 6, Yin woke up at 6 a.m. determined to go cold turkey.
  — Washington Post, 31 Dec. 2019
• Don’t decide to just wean yourself off those or go cold turkey.
  — Korin Miller, SELF, 18 Oct. 2018
• Take it from somebody who has been trying, and failing, to go cold turkey for weeks.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 29 Sep. 2019
• Is there a way to transition them out of driving rather than taking away the keys cold turkey?
  — Andrea K. McDaniels, baltimoresun.com, 21 June 2018
• Others say the only way to beat an addiction is to quit cold turkey and go device-free.
  — Arthur C. Brooks, The Atlantic, 7 Oct. 2021
• Unlike Luck, the pain of football has not become so unbearable as to force Wolfe to quit cold turkey.
  — Mark Kiszla, The Denver Post, 26 Oct. 2019
• No, that doesn’t mean quitting the internet cold turkey.
  — Brian X. Chen, New York Times, 25 Nov. 2020
• Brown claims the industrial world can't afford to go cold turkey off oil.
  — William Lajeunesse, Fox News, 13 Sep. 2018
• Still, many of us crave that sugary sweetness, so going cold turkey might not be an option.
  — Molly Kimball, NOLA.com, 8 May 2018
• Spencer Haywood, who tries and fails to quit cocaine cold turkey at Kareem’s behest.
  — Alan Sepinwall, Rolling Stone, 2 May 2022
• Now the news media needs to do something every bit as challenging: Go cold turkey on Trump.
  — Washington Post, 15 Dec. 2020
• The brain effects are why going cold turkey has dismal success rates.
  — Maggie Mertens, Glamour, 19 Sep. 2017
• Bruno said studies show two-thirds of smokers want to quit but only about 3 percent of those who try to kick the habit cold turkey are successful.
  — Meredith Cohn, baltimoresun.com, 7 Sep. 2017
• Cutting your hot-styling sessions down to twice a week can really help, and going cold turkey for a couple of months gives new hair a chance to grow in stronger.
  — Loren Savini, Allure, 23 May 2018
• First off, there’s no need to go cold turkey or follow any other kind of horrible detox program.
  — Elijah Rawls, Men's Health, 14 June 2022
• The proposal would not cut the groups off cold turkey, but rather aim to gradually shut them down over the course of five years, so that they were phased out entirely by 2022.
  — Caroline Hallemann, Town & Country, 13 July 2017
• For beginners, Suter had to come in cold turkey after starter Wade Miley exited in the first inning with an oblique strain.
  — Tom Haudricourt, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 8 May 2018
• That feeling of accomplishing something step by grueling step proved addictive, but its counter was a strong aversion to trying to take on anything that big cold turkey ever again.
  — Alli Harvey, Anchorage Daily News, 28 Aug. 2022
• Given the obstacles against going cold turkey, many companies have sought to supplement Chinese production rather than leave the country altogether.
  — Stephanie Yang, Los Angeles Times, 28 Aug. 2022

Last Updated: 17 Jul 2024