How to use turkey in a sentence
40 example sentences · noun
Turkey means the guinea fowl (family Numididae). Example: “All week after Thanksgiving, I had turkey sandwiches for lunch.”
Examples of turkey by meaning
nounThe flesh or meat of this bird eaten as food.
- All week after Thanksgiving, I had turkey sandwiches for lunch.
nounA failure.
- That film was a turkey.
- David Bowie is a great actor, and not even this turkey can obscure that fact.1981 August 8, Rob Schmieder, “Starring Bowie and Berlin”, in Gay Community News, page 11
- There were a few turkeys.2021 April 7, Christian Wolmar, “Electrification is a given... but comfort matters as well”, in RAIL, number 928, page 46
More sentences with turkey
- We cooked a big Christmas dinner with turkey, stuffing, Brussels, and parsnips.From the entry Brussels
- I’m stuffed after having eaten all that turkey, mashed potatoes and delicious stuffing.From the entry stuff
- The farmer's son brought home a Thanksgiving turkey from the wild that he killed with his shotgun.From the entry shotgun
- Even three giant helpings of turkey and ham didn't satisfy her appetite.From the entry satisfy
- Sorry, there's been a run on turkeys and we're out of stock.From the entry out of stock
- The turkeys are out of stock but we have some guinea fowl in the back.From the entry out of stock
- The turkey is stuffed with a stuffing made of bread and herbs.From the entry stuffed
- The ocellated turkey has an eye-shaped spot on its tail feathers.From the entry ocellated
- Turkey should always be cooked in a slow oven.From the entry slow
- That turkey fryer is a bomb waiting to go off.From the entry bomb
- We're running a special on turkey for Thanksgiving.From the entry special
- She stuffed the turkey for Thanksgiving using her secret recipe.From the entry stuff
- It is difficult, but possible to quit smoking cold turkey.From the entry cold turkey
- We must fatten the turkey in time for Thanksgiving.From the entry fatten
- They are feasting on turkey and venison.From the entry feasting
- After cooking the thanksgiving turkey we appreciate the self-cleaning oven as it gets really hot and burns off the splattered grease.From the entry self-cleaning
- I have bread, mayonnaise, mustard, turkey, and lettuce: all the makings of a sandwich as far as I'm concerned.From the entry makings
- Turkey farmers will be coining it this Christmas.From the entry coin it
- For Thanksgiving, I'll roast up a turkey.From the entry roast up
- It kills me to throw out three whole turkeys, but I can't get anyone to take them and they've already started to go bad.From the entry kill
- I feasted on turkey and dumplings.From the entry feast
- Give that turkey a careful carve.From the entry carve
- We're having stuffed turkey for dinner.From the entry stuffed
- You don't need to go cold turkey to help your health.2023 January 13, Dana G. Smith, “Even a Little Alcohol Can Harm Your Health, Research Shows”, in The New York Times, New York, N.Y.: The…. From the entry a
- The English prepare a gooducken in which the turkey is replaced with a goose.2021 November 25, Greg Hilburn, “Louisiana’s Thanksgiving gifts to the world”, in The News-Star, volume 93, number 41, page 4A. From the entry gooducken
- That’s a chicken stuffed into a duck stuffed into a turkey.2020, Julia Fowler, Embrace Your Southern, Sugar!, Gibbs Smith, →ISBN. From the entry turducken
- Watership Down review – CGI rabbits can't save this Christmas turkey.2018 December 23, Lucy Mangan, “WatershipDown review - CGI rabbits can't save this Christmas turkey”, in The Guardian. From the entry drab
- Turkey: a politics of memory that makes continuous stabs at the Armenification or Kurdification of all violence.2017, Murat Akan, The Politics of Secularism: Religion, Diversity, and Institutional Change in France and Turkey, Columbia University…. From the entry Armenification
- A turkey will always seek the company of another turkey, and ultimately that of the rafter.2013, Don Schrider, Storey's Guide to Raising Turkeys, Storey Publishing, LLC, page 4. From the entry rafter
- Best were the succulent chicken, juicy sausages, turkey wrapped in bacon and flavorful skirt steak.2012 March 30, Joanne Starkey, “All You Can Eat, and Then Some”, in The New York Times, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN…. From the entry rodizio
- In fact, you can kill the toughest turkey in the woods.2010, Brian Lovett, Hunting Tough Turkeys, Stackpole Books, page 3. From the entry tough
- We eat turducken: a duck stuffed inside a chicken stuffed inside a turkey.2009, Rebecca Wolff, editor, A Best of Fence: Fiction & Nonfiction, Fence Books, →ISBN, page 385. From the entry turducken
- Her Mum running a still-frozen turkey under the hot tap at ten.2009, Death in Blackpool (The New Eighth Doctor Adventures; 4.01), Big Finish, publisher's summary. From the entry half cut
- On Valentine's Day, he beat out many older and more experienced hunters at a turkey shoot.2009 February 25, “Boy held in Pa. killing to go to juvenile facility”, in USA Today, retrieved 16 Jul 2012. From the entry turkey shoot
- Even the world's greatest turkey callers know the value of stealth and low-level relocation.2009, Brian Lovett, Hunting Tough Turkeys, page 61. From the entry henned-up
- At the food court, I bought a turkey sandwich and another coffee.2008, Wally Lamb, The Hour I First Believed, Ch.3, at p.74. From the entry hacky sack
Meaning of turkey
- noun The guinea fowl (family Numididae).
- noun A wild turkey of Meleagris gallopavo.
- noun A domesticated bird of Meleagris gallopavo domesticus.
Questions about turkey in a sentence
- How do you use turkey in a sentence?
- Turkey is used as a noun. For example: “All week after Thanksgiving, I had turkey sandwiches for lunch.”
- What is a short sentence with turkey?
- “That film was a turkey.”
- What does turkey mean?
- Turkey means the guinea fowl (family Numididae).
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Adapted from Wiktionary: turkey (page history and authors) and the entries each sentence comes from. Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws chose the sentences, left out offensive ones and quotations older than 1900, and marked the word in each. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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