How to Use nettle in a Sentence

nettle

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
• Back in Shepherd’s basement, Mike Gunton has the first edited clip of the dodder’s attack—a long, thin tendril circling the nettle before sending out probes, which pierce the stem and suck the life out of the plant.
  — Stephen Armstrong, Wired, 2 Dec. 2021

Last Updated: 27 Jun 2024