Sample Sentences for
nettle
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(editor-reviewed)

nettle as in:  beware of nettles near the river

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I ran into some stinging nettles.
nettles = a type of plant that has fine irritating hairs
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    Stay on the trail in that area to avoid nettles and ticks.
    nettles = plants with stinging or irritating hairs
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    …to read it: Danger lies before you, while safety lies behind, Two of us will help you, which ever you would find, One among us seven will let you move ahead, Another will transport the drinker back instead, Two among our number hold only nettle wine, Three of us are killers, waiting bidden in line. Choose, unless you wish to stay here forevermore, To help you in your choice, we give you these clues four: First, however slyly the poison tries to hide You will always find some…  (source)
    nettle = a type of plant with stinging or irritating hairs
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    There were just nettles and thistles and weeds and half-bricks and lumps of stone.  (source)
    nettles = a type of plant that often has fine irritating hairs
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    Then, using the loader, he lowered a thousand-gallon tank into the pit and buried it with a shovel, carefully planting nettles and sow thistle in the freshly tossed dirt so they would grow and conceal the tank.  (source)
    nettles = plants with stinging or irritating hairs
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    By any chance, is it nettle?†  (source)
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    for the congested passages you made a paste of boiled flour and nettles, wrapped it in a rag, and slapped it, sizzling, on the chest.  (source)
    nettles = a type of plant that often has fine irritating hairs
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    My mother brewed us scotch tea, strong, with milk, the way she used to when I was tomboying around and someone would push me in the nettle patch or I'd fall off my bicycle.†  (source)
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    Half an hour later, cold, and moving carefully on the tracks, fully aware of his entire body, his face, his mouth, his eyes stuffed with blackness, his ears stuffed with sound, his legs prickled with burrs and nettles, he saw the fire ahead.  (source)
    nettles = irritating hairs from certain  types of plants
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    When he was young, he thought, he could bring himself into God's presence by grasping the sharp nettle of beauty, but now he didn't dare.†  (source)
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    The worst time was July—then they shredded nettles into the pot.  (source)
    nettles = a type of plant that often has fine irritating hairs
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    Those were our roots in the waste hollows of Castle Hill, in the brier and nettle; among the tombs in the old church and the chantry where no clerk sings.†  (source)
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    Nettles make the best greens, but have little tiny hairs on them that sting you all over when you're picking.  (source)
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    Then he shot the arrow and fell back and would have died, but he lit on a nettle and sprang up too gaily for a corpse.†  (source)
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nettle as in:  my nettlesome little sister

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Her superior attitude really nettles me.
nettles = annoys -- especially with minor irritations
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    "Well, then, to end the matter at once," said Goodman Brown, considerably nettled, "there is my wife, Faith."  (source)
    nettled = annoyed
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    "I Don't go looking for trouble," said Harry, nettled.†  (source)
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    His scorn of commerce — invigorating to me — nettled a lot of the more vocal kids in Honors English.†  (source)
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    My tone nettled him.†  (source)
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    And because the mainland police couldn't collect Martin's body until the seas calmed, the townspeople were left with the nettlesome question of what to do with his body.†  (source)
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    Not that they needed understanding—young people were the same in every generation—but this cockiness, this refusal to take seriously the gravest questions of their lives, nettled and irritated her.†  (source)
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    The flagon of mulled wine that Satin delivered helped them settle the more nettlesome points.†  (source)
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    "Of course not," Ullman said, nettled.†  (source)
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    That doesn't happen often in red-light districts, any more than farmers kill producing assets such as good milk cows, but from time to time a prostitute becomes so nettlesome that the owners kill her as a warning to the other girls.†  (source)
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    And my mind went back ten years to the evening at Brideshead, when that lovely, spidery child of nineteen, as though brought in for an hour from the nursery and nettled by lack of attention from the grown-ups, had said: "I'm causing anxiety, too, you know," and I had thought at the time, though scarcely, it now seemed to me, in long trousers myself, "How important these girls make themselves with their love affairs."†  (source)
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    He was a physician and a teacher and a practicing politician, so nettlesome in opposition to Germany's imperial ambitions that Bismarck once challenged him to a duel.†  (source)
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    Even before Scarlett was able to be about again, she noticed Rhett's pre-occupation with the baby and was somewhat nettled and embarrassed at his pride in her in front of callers.†  (source)
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    Persuaded as Miss Bingley was that Darcy admired Elizabeth, this was not the best method of recommending herself; but angry people are not always wise; and in seeing him at last look somewhat nettled, she had all the success she expected.†  (source)
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