Example sentences for: carrots

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

  • 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 .

  • Powell and Armitage reviewed the possibility of acquiring more carrots to dangle in front of Pakistan.

  • Because of the sanctions required by U.S. law, we had few carrots to offer."

  • And, true to recent convention, there is a "livid spotting" about this: The Wall Street Journal "Washington Wire" reports that national security advisor Sandy Berger was "livid" at a State Department leak about U.S. "carrots."


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