How to Use turnip in a Sentence

turnip

noun

• Contrary to the name, there's no turnip in turnip cake.
  — Maggie Hiufu Wong, CNN, 30 Jan. 2022
• Add salt to the pot of boiling water and cook the turnip tops.
  — Alisha Prakash, Travel + Leisure, 6 Apr. 2020
• Whisk in hard cider and stock and then add turnip and sweet potato to the pot.
  — Alysha Witwicki, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 3 Jan. 2022
• The turnip was served unadorned next to two slices of steamed and grilled duck.
  — Laurie Ochoa, Los Angeles Times, 3 Feb. 2024
• The chefs serve the wings with slices of pickle and pickled turnip.
  — Susan Selasky, Detroit Free Press, 1 June 2018
• Look for leafy greens like spinach, bok choy and turnip greens.
  — Sean Rossman, USA TODAY, 9 May 2017
• Turnips aren’t the only thing that sets this pan roast apart.
  — Kitty Greenwald, WSJ, 12 Jan. 2017
• The sandwich is wrapped in turnips and collard green leaves.
  — Susan Selasky, Detroit Free Press, 3 Apr. 2023
• The rich miso broth gets a nice peppery bite from turnip greens and ginger.
  — Katlyn Moncada, Better Homes & Gardens, 4 July 2023
• The food at Bergen-Belsen was kohlrabies, turnips, about 600 calories to keep you alive.
  — Norah O'Donnell, CBS News, 13 Dec. 2023
• Come for the photos, stay for the yellow pickled turnip recipe.
  — Christine Ro, Longreads, 17 Sep. 2024
• Fitting then that her Irish stew, with turnips and lamb, is rich and balanced.
  — Scott Hocker, theweek, 10 Sep. 2024
• Brassicas such as rape, kale, turnips, and canola have deep roots and large leaves.
  — Michelle Matthews, AL.com, 24 Dec. 2017
• The inside is white and has been compared to a cross between an apple and a turnip.
  — Bethany Thayer, Detroit Free Press, 18 June 2022
• Think grilled turnip with lacto-shoyu cherries, and French toast and fro-yo for dessert.
  — Sunset Magazine, 2 Dec. 2021
• Here, carrots and turnips roast for the Thicket supper in June, 2016.
  — Beejoli Shah, Bon Appetit, 28 Apr. 2017
• Many turn their noses up at turnips, Brussel sprouts, beets and eggplants.
  — Clare Mulroy, USA TODAY, 7 Apr. 2024
• Add the eggs, radish (or turnip or rutabaga), cabbage and tofu and return to a boil.
  — Washington Post, 9 Mar. 2021
• South was a visitor to our club who may have arrived on a turnip truck.
  — Frank Stewart, The Mercury News, 3 Mar. 2017
• Once the oil is shimmering, add the onions, fennel, turnip and garlic.
  — San Antonio Express-News, 17 Jan. 2018
• Parsnips, turnips, and rutabagas are all very earthy, sometimes bitter, and tend to be quite strong.
  — Christopher Michel, Country Living, 29 Aug. 2023
• The turnips and carrots belong with a bowl of white rice and a quick miso-ginger sauce drizzled over it all.
  — Christina Chaey, Bon Appetit, 25 June 2018
• Too often, turnips get short shrift in the fall produce parade.
  — Matt Brooks, Washington Post, 9 Dec. 2019
• The South mainly grows turnips for their leaves, but other areas grow them for their roots.
  — Zoe Denenberg, Southern Living, 21 Aug. 2023
• Tiny leaves of just-snipped mugwort balance the brooding force of black rice and baby turnips.
  — Garrett Snyder, Los Angeles Magazine, 18 July 2017
• There's still time to plant other greens, such as mustard, collard and turnip.
  — Dan Gill, NOLA.com, 24 Feb. 2018
• Rutabagas are like a cross between a turnip and a cabbage that came about hundreds of years ago.
  — Theresa MacHemer, Smithsonian Magazine, 30 Apr. 2020
• The squares are nicely browned and the turnip in the center is soft and a tad gooey, similar to the consistency of good mochi.
  — Jenn Harriscolumnist, Los Angeles Times, 9 May 2022
• Its rump was wide and its head narrow, and its belly tapered from one end to the other in roughly the shape of a turnip.
  — Caleb Crain, The New Yorker, 4 Aug. 2024
• The caveat here: some things don’t transplant well. Radishes, beets, corn, and turnips prefer to have their seeds (not seedlings) planted in the ground.
  — Ac Shilton, Popular Mechanics, 21 Apr. 2020

Last Updated: 6 Nov 2024