Example sentences for: carrots

How can you use “carrots” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • Albright said the original carrots and sticks listed in a decision paper for principals may not have been used as "described on paper" but added that they were used in other ways or in varying degrees.

  • Clinton has "a lot of sticks but no carrots," says Mara Liasson (PBS's Washington Week in Review ). All agree that the G-8 nations' refusal to back the sanctions weakens the U.S. position.

  • It specified both carrots and hard-hitting sticks- among them, certifying Pakistan as uncooperative on terrorism.

  • After Bin Ladin left Sudan in May 1996, some State Department officials, including Ambassador Carney, criticized the NSC's hard-line policy, which he felt provided no "carrots" for Sudanese moderates to cooperate on counterterrorism.

  • ) Various readers offered citations from the television shows The Simpsons , Pearl , and Grace Under Fire . Eric Fredericksen noted that expressions other than yadda yadda yadda used by performers to generate "crowd chatter" in theater productions include rhubarb, rhubarb, rhubarb; peas 'n' carrots, peas 'n' carrots, peas 'n' carrots; and watermelon, watermelon, watermelon .


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