CARROT in a Sentence

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For CARROT, below is one of 11 sentences:
Disliking the cloying sweetness of standard wedding cakes, Jody and Tom chose to have homemade carrot cake at the reception.

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 Meanings and Examples of CARROT
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carrot
 n.  root of cultivated varieties of the plant, usually spindle-shaped, and of a reddish yellow color
Classic Sentence:
1  All shades of red hair were represented beneath these hats, Hetty's plain red hair, Camilla's strawberry blonde, Randa's coppery auburn and small Betsy's carrot top.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER V
2  For a horse, it was said, the pension would be five pounds of corn a day and, in winter, fifteen pounds of hay, with a carrot or possibly an apple on public holidays.
Animal Farm By George Orwell
Context  Highlight   In Chapter IX
3  The physicians of the Middle Ages who, for carrot, radish, and turnip, said Opoponach, perfroschinum, reptitalmus, dracatholicum, angelorum, postmegorum, talked slang.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 7: CHAPTER I—ORIGIN
4  And garnish the sturgeon with beetroot, smelts, peppered mushrooms, young radishes, carrots, beans, and anything else you like, so as to have plenty of trimmings.
Dead Souls By Nikolai Gogol
Context  Highlight   In PART 2: CHAPTER III
5  I have prescribed him centaury and St. John's wort, ordered him to eat carrots, given him soda; but all that's merely palliative measures; we want some more decided treatment.
Fathers and Children By Ivan Turgenev
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXI
6  He hoped there would be stew for dinner, turnips and carrots and bruised potatoes and fat mutton pieces to be ladled out in thick peppered flour-fattened sauce.
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man By James Joyce
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 3
Example Sentence:
1  The dish of boiled beef and carrot tastes good.
2  Disliking the cloying sweetness of standard wedding cakes, Jody and Tom chose to have homemade carrot cake at the reception.
3  She cut up the carrots and put them in the pot.
4  Remove the green tops from the carrots.
5  Chop the carrots up into small pieces.