Sample sentences for NETTLE - verbalworkout.com

2 meanings

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1 —as in:
beware of nettles near the river

Definition

a type of plant with stinging or irritating hairs

nettles = a type of plant that has fine irritating hairs

Other Uses (with this meaning)

nettles = plants with stinging or irritating hairs

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.
Tara Westover -- Educated

nettles = plants with stinging or irritating hairs

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.
Ray Bradbury -- Fahrenheit 451

nettles = irritating hairs from certain types of plants

Nettles make the best greens, but have little tiny hairs on them that sting you all over when you're picking.
Forest Carter -- Education of Little Tree

nettles = a type of plant that often has fine irritating hairs

He swept around in his long black cloak, watching them weigh dried nettles and crush snake fangs,
J.K. Rowling -- Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone

nettles = a type of plant that often has fine irritating hairs

The worst time was July—then they shredded nettles into the pot.
Alexander Solzhenitsyn -- One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich

nettles = a type of plant that often has fine irritating hairs

There were just nettles and thistles and weeds and half-bricks and lumps of stone.
David Almond -- Skellig

nettles = a type of plant that often has fine irritating hairs

2 —as in:
my nettlesome little sister

Definition

to annoy — especially with minor irritations

nettles = annoys — especially with minor irritations

Other Uses (with this meaning)

"Well, then, to end the matter at once," said Goodman Brown, considerably nettled, "there is my wife, Faith."
Nathaniel Hawthorne -- Young Goodman Brown

nettled = annoyed

He had been nettled all day, and now at this he rose with a half-smothered oath, took his hat and cane, and walked straight to the schoolhouse.
W. E. B. Du Bois -- The Souls of Black Folk
Mr Rugg, without concealing that he was nettled and mortified, replied: 'Oh!
Charles Dickens -- Little Dorrit
JUDGE (Nettled) Well, sir?
Jerome Lawrence and Robert E. Lee -- Inherit the Wind
Being decidedly nettled herself, and longing to see him shake off the apathy that so altered him, Amy sharpened both tongue and pencil, and began.
Louisa May Alcott -- Little Women
Eleanor laughed in spite of being half nettled.
Zane Grey -- The Call of the Canyon
"Did I ever hear him!" said the invalid, nettled.
James Joyce -- Dubliners
Kim hurried to his carriage: elated, bewildered, but a little nettled in that he had no key to the secrets about him.
Rudyard Kipling -- Kim
'Bah!' he whispered, as though nettled by the interruption; 'it's the man I expected before; he's coming downstairs.
Charles Dickens -- Oliver Twist

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