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Example sentences for: turkeys
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Puffy, bureaucratic verbiage if often called gobbledygook, a word credited to Texas congressman Maury Maverick, who compared the tortuous (and torturous) prose of Washington bureaucrats to the senseless gobbling of turkeys.
The garden is full of olive and mulberry trees, and livestock such as burros, turkeys, and four-horned churro sheep all contribute to the 1820s atmosphere.
A few examples follow: dipper duck for the pied-billed grebe; jakes for young male turkeys (their elders are toms); loopwood or witch hobble for the hobblebush ( Viburnum alnifolium ) because the stems bend over and grow roots at the tips creating a loop that can abruptly trip a hiker in snowy woods; pippin , not for the apple, but for the tangy, red berry of wintergreen (Gaultheria procumbens); pugger for ferret; quong-queedle for the bobolink; rain crow for the cuckoo, often heard before rain; scoke (or skoke ) for pokeweed ( Phytolacca americana ) of Massachusett Indian origin; skipper for a young deer; and finally an imaginative one, whippoorwill shoes for the lady's slipper orchid (Cypripedium acaule) .
These days, the cisterns, fountains, and irrigation channels are a tad run down, but the flowing water and shaded walks, turkeys feeding under fig trees, and birds singing among exotic plants exude a gentle appeal.
And then Esmark was purchased by Beatrice, the ultimate consumer company for the 1980s, selling Butterball turkeys, Samsonite luggage, and Tropicana orange juice (while paying millions of dollars for an ad campaign designed to create brand loyalty around a name, Beatrice, that did not appear on even one of its products).
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