NETTLE in a Sentence

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28 example sentences for NETTLE, such as:

1. Grasp the nettle and it won't sting you.
2. We need to grasp the nettle of prison reform.
3. Eustacia was nettled by her own contrivances.
4. Do not let him nettle you with his sarcastic remarks.
5. The nettles had spread and now covered half the garden.

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 Meanings and Examples of NETTLE
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
nettle
 v.  cause annoyance in; disturb, especially by minor irritations; vex
Classic Sentence: (23 in 2 pages)
1  When the nettle is young, the leaf makes an excellent vegetable; when it is older, it has filaments and fibres like hemp and flax.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 5: CHAPTER III—SUMS DEPOSITED WITH LAFFITTE
2  The seed of the nettle, mixed with fodder, gives gloss to the hair of animals; the root, mixed with salt, produces a beautiful yellow coloring-matter.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 5: CHAPTER III—SUMS DEPOSITED WITH LAFFITTE
3  With the exercise of a little care, the nettle could be made useful; it is neglected and it becomes hurtful.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 5: CHAPTER III—SUMS DEPOSITED WITH LAFFITTE
4  She was a nettle in which the rustle of the cassock was visible.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 5: CHAPTER VIII—MADAME VICTURNIEN EXPENDS THIRTY FRANCS ON M...
5  An unworthy thought can no more germinate in it, than a nettle on a glacier.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 5: CHAPTER IV—A HEART BENEATH A STONE
6  That sinister nettle had loved and protected that lily.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 7: CHAPTER II—THE OBSCURITIES WHICH A REVELATION CAN CONTAIN
7  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.
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer By Mark Twain
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VIII
8  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.
Little Women By Louisa May Alcott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER THIRTY-NINE
9  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.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER L
10  Eustacia was nettled by her own contrivances.
Return of the Native By Thomas Hardy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: 6 The Two Stand Face to Face
11  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.
The Souls of Black Folk By W. E. B. Du Bois
Context  Highlight   In XIII
12  One day he saw some country people busily engaged in pulling up nettles; he examined the plants, which were uprooted and already dried, and said: "They are dead."
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 5: CHAPTER III—SUMS DEPOSITED WITH LAFFITTE
13  Chopped up, nettles are good for poultry; pounded, they are good for horned cattle.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 5: CHAPTER III—SUMS DEPOSITED WITH LAFFITTE
14  These consisted of large slabs of blue stone, which form a heap among the nettles.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER II—HOUGOMONT
15  The base of the walls all about the well is concealed in a growth of nettles.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER II—HOUGOMONT
Example Sentence:
1  Grasp the nettle and it won't sting you.
2  Falsehood like a nettle stings those who meddle with it.
3  We need to grasp the nettle of prison reform.
4  Do not let him nettle you with his sarcastic remarks.
5  The nettles had spread and now covered half the garden.