Example sentences for: turkey

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

  • So, when the Kurds came under Iraqi attack again, in 1991, there was good reason to fear that another genocide was in the offing (although President Bush's real motivation was defending the stability of Turkey, where the Kurds were fleeing).

  • And then that rush, rush to get away for the holiday weekend, bustling off to catch the high-speed maglev train that would whisk me swiftly and economically to the countryside, where, refreshed by the more historically nuanced brooding of my jolly Chekhovian family, I'd wander the woods and fields, dodging bullets from hunters too groggy on turkey tryptophans to distinguish between a deer and a Jew.

  • The Pan-Arab al-Quds al-Arabi also saw the delivery of Ocalan to Turkey as its "reward" for toeing the U.S. line on Iraq.

  • We hear at length about Bush's childhood reaction to his little sister's death from leukemia, his pole vault over the waiting list for the Texas Air National Guard in 1970, and his conversion from Wild Turkey to Cold Turkey in 1986.

  • Turkey remained neutral during World War II until 1945, when it entered the war on the side of the Allies.


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