How to Use nettle in a Sentence

nettle

1 of 2 noun

• The clay pit was filled and the clay mixed with wood-nettle fibers.
  — Frank Bures, Outside Online, 17 Oct. 2019
• For the sake of our football club, the board must grasp the nettle.
  — SI.com, 28 Feb. 2018
• When the stock is almost gone, add the nettle puree and morel mushrooms.
  — Katie Hill, Outdoor Life, 28 Mar. 2023
• In the meantime, put on gloves and clean the nettles, removing the stems and keeping just the leaves.
  — Leslie Kelly, Forbes, 9 Mar. 2023
• And then there are the alcoholic drinks, which range from dry meads to nettle beers.
  — Gareth Cook, Scientific American, 24 June 2020
• There were cheeses the shape of witch hats and flowers, cheeses wrapped in nettle leaves or covered in ash.
  — Barry Neild, CNN, 2 Nov. 2022
• When the nettles are cool, drain them, making sure to remove the excess water.
  — Leslie Kelly, Forbes, 9 Mar. 2023
• With none in sight, Merkel and her colleagues are forced to grasp the migration nettle again at their June 28-29 summit.
  — Washington Post, 16 June 2018
• Try the wild mint lip butter ($20; borealfolk.ca) made with rosehip oil and nettle and mint collected from the marshlands of BC.
  — Fiona Tapp, CNN Underscored, 3 Nov. 2020
• If one nettle has been grasped, thornier obstacles to a deal remain.
  — Simon Nixon, WSJ, 23 July 2017
• There's a course with smoked lake fish, cattails, wild rice dumplings, watercress and nettles.
  — Mark Kurlyandchik, Detroit Free Press, 25 July 2019
• The single-track road dips at a stream cloaked by nettles and blackberry bushes.
  — Simon Montlake, The Christian Science Monitor, 31 Aug. 2017
• But unless the West is willing to grasp this nettle, the world will continue to finance the Putin war machine.
  — The Editorial Board, WSJ, 6 Mar. 2022
• Honey helps to soften and smooth hair and nettle root gives strands a healthy sheen, while helping enhance curl shape.
  — Jacqueline Saguin, goodhousekeeping.com, 10 June 2023
• As if to back his point, a male corncrake started calling from a nettle bed nearby.
  — New York Times, 4 Aug. 2022
• Like other nettle plants, the trees are covered in fine, needle-like hairs and are known to cause extreme, long-lasting pain.
  — Harry Clarke-Ezzidio, CNN, 17 Sep. 2020
• Crispy oysters get dressed in creamed nettles and frozen horseradish mousse.
  — Michael Bauer, SFChronicle.com, 17 June 2018
• Cleavers, nettles and bindweed, rejected as too thuggish, were pulled.
  — Amy Merrick, WSJ, 26 Apr. 2018
• Serve with steamed, buttered nettles or a side dish of other seasonal greens.
  — Katie Hill, Outdoor Life, 28 Mar. 2023
• Some dishes call for local nettles, mushrooms and ramps.
  — Florence Fabricant, New York Times, 2 Mar. 2020
• Since the Paris Agreement was struck, Wood Mackenzie has advocated that all oil and gas companies to grasp the nettle.
  — Wood MacKenzie, Forbes, 3 June 2021
• Use one of the liquids to spray over the foliage of the burning nettle following label instructions.
  — Tom MacCubbin, OrlandoSentinel.com, 17 Mar. 2018
• Behind the hotel several cars, one tireless and up on blocks, rested among dry nettles and wild oats.
  — Karen Schoemer, New York Times, 30 May 2017
• Fried in a translucent tempura batter, a wild nettle leaf seems preserved in glass.
  — Soleil Ho, San Francisco Chronicle, 18 June 2021
• The Ramie moth is laying its eggs on several plants in the nettles family, such as mamaki and akolea.
  — USA TODAY, 10 June 2019
• Lamb stew with butternut squash spaetzle, shimeji mushrooms, nettles and pea shoots held the promise of spring.
  — Providence Cicero, The Seattle Times, 3 May 2017
• Other garments were made of nettle fabric and reindeer leather.
  — Sam Knight, The New Yorker, 28 Mar. 2022
• All of these, some of these, or swap in that pricy Douglas Fir nettle tea you anxiety-bought with a little scotch and go full mountain hermit.
  — Maggie Lange, Bon Appétit, 28 Mar. 2020
• Doing something is a brain-distraction technique that enables you to get up and act, to make ready, to grab the nettle, to shake off denial and paralysis.
  — Belinda Luscombe, Time, 11 Mar. 2020
• Vegetable rennet or plant rennet: Typically, this will be referring to the variety that’s derived from plants like thistle and nettle.
  — Ali Francis, Bon Appétit, 8 Oct. 2023

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nettle

2 of 2 verb

• It nettles him that his younger coworker got a promotion before he did.
• The mayor's recent actions have nettled some members of the community.
• Worries about the health of the long-term-care insurance industry have nettled investors for years.
  — Leslie Scism, WSJ, 23 Oct. 2017
• What nettled him was the news media’s unquestioning reiteration of that claim.
  — Margalit Fox, New York Times, 22 Jan. 2018
• Gorsuch is a pale imitation of his predecessor, boasting a bratty attitude that has nettled justices across the ideological spectrum.
  — Mark Joseph Stern, Slate Magazine, 18 Oct. 2017
• It nettles him that his younger coworker got a promotion before he did.
• The mayor's recent actions have nettled some members of the community.
• Worries about the health of the long-term-care insurance industry have nettled investors for years.
  — Leslie Scism, WSJ, 23 Oct. 2017
• What nettled him was the news media’s unquestioning reiteration of that claim.
  — Margalit Fox, New York Times, 22 Jan. 2018
• Gorsuch is a pale imitation of his predecessor, boasting a bratty attitude that has nettled justices across the ideological spectrum.
  — Mark Joseph Stern, Slate Magazine, 18 Oct. 2017

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