How to Use wattle in a Sentence

wattle

noun

• For the wattle: Cut a small pieces of licorice in a L shape and stick one on a side of the nose.
  — Kate Merker, Good Housekeeping, 17 Sep. 2020
• Add black beads for eyes, along with a paper beak and wattle.
  — Southern Living Editors, Southern Living, 29 Sep. 2023
• Sydney was awash in green and gold, and the wave of wattle is looking to wash over the rest of the country in the coming weeks.
  — Rachel Yabsley, Vogue, 1 Aug. 2023
• The three hoisted two wattles onto their shoulders and strode up a hill.
  — Blake Nelson, San Diego Union-Tribune, 24 Nov. 2023
• During a brief sequence on the women’s high jump, Ichikawa suddenly cuts to what looks like the wattle of an elderly spectator, then to another.
  — Chris Vognar, Vulture, 26 May 2021
• Sprigs of wattle have been used to represent Australia for decades, notably decorating the colonial-era Commonwealth Coat of Arms.
  — Nora McGreevy, Smithsonian Magazine, 5 Apr. 2022
• Another Baldwin favorite is the twisted desert wattle (Acacia aphylla), a sculptural plant with twisty, deep green branches and little fluff balls of yellow flowers at the tips.
  — Jeanette Marantos, Los Angeles Times, 1 Dec. 2023
• Yet the wattle’s importance to human societies predates Australia’s colonial period by tens of thousands of years, as new research makes clear.
  — Nora McGreevy, Smithsonian Magazine, 5 Apr. 2022
• Compared to these familiar objects, though, Hamana’s tsubo are at once imposing — most measure nearly 30 inches across — and delicate, their weathered and cracked surfaces echoing the crumbling wattle-and-daub walls of their home.
  — New York Times, 3 Dec. 2021
• The beauty of the virtual chicken is that the researchers could test the female’s reaction to a rooster with a wattle and without one, and watch her responses to wattles of varying size and flexibility—all by altering the appendage digitally.
  — Kate Wong, Scientific American, 21 Jan. 2014
• Symptoms in infected birds include neurological symptoms, fatigue, swollen comb or wattles, difficulty walking, nasal discharge and decreased egg production.
  — Annie Berman, Anchorage Daily News, 14 May 2023
• For the wattle: Cut a small pieces of licorice in a L shape and stick one on a side of the nose.
  — Kate Merker, Good Housekeeping, 17 Sep. 2020
• Add black beads for eyes, along with a paper beak and wattle.
  — Southern Living Editors, Southern Living, 29 Sep. 2023
• Sydney was awash in green and gold, and the wave of wattle is looking to wash over the rest of the country in the coming weeks.
  — Rachel Yabsley, Vogue, 1 Aug. 2023
• The three hoisted two wattles onto their shoulders and strode up a hill.
  — Blake Nelson, San Diego Union-Tribune, 24 Nov. 2023
• During a brief sequence on the women’s high jump, Ichikawa suddenly cuts to what looks like the wattle of an elderly spectator, then to another.
  — Chris Vognar, Vulture, 26 May 2021
• Sprigs of wattle have been used to represent Australia for decades, notably decorating the colonial-era Commonwealth Coat of Arms.
  — Nora McGreevy, Smithsonian Magazine, 5 Apr. 2022
• Another Baldwin favorite is the twisted desert wattle (Acacia aphylla), a sculptural plant with twisty, deep green branches and little fluff balls of yellow flowers at the tips.
  — Jeanette Marantos, Los Angeles Times, 1 Dec. 2023
• Yet the wattle’s importance to human societies predates Australia’s colonial period by tens of thousands of years, as new research makes clear.
  — Nora McGreevy, Smithsonian Magazine, 5 Apr. 2022
• Compared to these familiar objects, though, Hamana’s tsubo are at once imposing — most measure nearly 30 inches across — and delicate, their weathered and cracked surfaces echoing the crumbling wattle-and-daub walls of their home.
  — New York Times, 3 Dec. 2021
• The beauty of the virtual chicken is that the researchers could test the female’s reaction to a rooster with a wattle and without one, and watch her responses to wattles of varying size and flexibility—all by altering the appendage digitally.
  — Kate Wong, Scientific American, 21 Jan. 2014
• Symptoms in infected birds include neurological symptoms, fatigue, swollen comb or wattles, difficulty walking, nasal discharge and decreased egg production.
  — Annie Berman, Anchorage Daily News, 14 May 2023
• For the wattle: Cut a small pieces of licorice in a L shape and stick one on a side of the nose.
  — Kate Merker, Good Housekeeping, 17 Sep. 2020
• Add black beads for eyes, along with a paper beak and wattle.
  — Southern Living Editors, Southern Living, 29 Sep. 2023
• Sydney was awash in green and gold, and the wave of wattle is looking to wash over the rest of the country in the coming weeks.
  — Rachel Yabsley, Vogue, 1 Aug. 2023
• The three hoisted two wattles onto their shoulders and strode up a hill.
  — Blake Nelson, San Diego Union-Tribune, 24 Nov. 2023
• During a brief sequence on the women’s high jump, Ichikawa suddenly cuts to what looks like the wattle of an elderly spectator, then to another.
  — Chris Vognar, Vulture, 26 May 2021
• Sprigs of wattle have been used to represent Australia for decades, notably decorating the colonial-era Commonwealth Coat of Arms.
  — Nora McGreevy, Smithsonian Magazine, 5 Apr. 2022
• Another Baldwin favorite is the twisted desert wattle (Acacia aphylla), a sculptural plant with twisty, deep green branches and little fluff balls of yellow flowers at the tips.
  — Jeanette Marantos, Los Angeles Times, 1 Dec. 2023
• Yet the wattle’s importance to human societies predates Australia’s colonial period by tens of thousands of years, as new research makes clear.
  — Nora McGreevy, Smithsonian Magazine, 5 Apr. 2022

Last Updated: 5 Sep 2024