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US
/ˈkæɹət, ˈkɛɹət/
]
[ UK /kˈæɹət/ ]
[ UK /kˈæɹət/ ]
NOUN
-
promise of reward as in
carrot and stick
used the carrot of subsidized housing for the workers to get their vote - perennial plant widely cultivated as an annual in many varieties for its long conical orange edible roots; temperate and tropical regions
- orange root; important source of carotene
- deep orange edible root of the cultivated carrot plant
How To Use carrot In A Sentence
- A carrot grown in one place is going to be different from one grown somewhere else.
- Use immersion blender or cappuccino machine steam attachment to froth the carrot foam mixture.
- Roughly two hours after they begin, Ralph, Begoña, and thirteen others are still dicing carrots into tiny cubes. The Sorcerer’s Apprentices
- Fancy an heir that a father had seen born well-featured and fair, turning suddenly wry-nosed, club-footed, squint-eyed, hair-lipped, wapper-jawed, carrot-haired, from a pride become an aversion, -- my case was yet worse. The Complete Poetical Works of James Russell Lowell
- He overcomes its characteristic darkening during preparation by throwing in a carrot.
- Without wishing to be unkind, it was student vegetable gloop (carrot, courgette, mushroom, turnip and barley in tomato sauce) with little herby scone things on the top.
- The point is, you must approach it with the carrot and the stick.
- Besides grating cheese, my wife likes the coarseness for grating zucchini and carrots for baking.
- Also add chopped, raw vegetables such as carrot sticks and cherry tomatoes to munch on. The Sun
- Roast them in a hot oven with vegetables such as carrots, celery and onion. Times, Sunday Times