Example sentences for: turkeys

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

  • Well, when we say "complete" we should add that--strictly for the convenience of our readers, you understand, who will be busy roasting turkeys, fighting with relatives, etc.--the next two issues will be just slightly less overloaded than usual with journalistic riches.

  • Both in animal and human studies of heart failure, β-adrenergicblockade intervention appears to have beneficial effects on cardiacmyocyte function [ 1 23 24 ] . Of particularimportance, studies using carvedilol have shown remarkable improvementsin cardiac performance [ 12 13 15 16 ] andreduction in mortality in humans [ 17 ] .We have previously shown that propranolol, a nonselective β-blocker,is cardioprotective and prevents the development of heart failurein turkeys when given concurrently with furazolidone [ 21 ] . Similarly, carteolol, a nonselective β-blocker,resulted in improvement in ejection fraction, reduction in ventricularvolumes, an increase in developed pressure as well as an increasein rate of survival in our turkey model [ 18 ] . Improvementin cardiac function was associated with cellular remodeling of cardiacmyocytes.

  • 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.

  • It's rather like holding turkeys responsible for Thanksgiving.

  • . On the other is Al Gore, notable for (as you put it about JFK Jr.) not living up to his Fair Deal hero father's high standards of integrity and cojones . How can these two turkeys be our leading candidates for the highest office in the land?


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