NUT in a Sentence

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56 example sentences for NUT, such as:

1. It is a tough nut for him to crack.
2. Cashew nuts are rich in carbohydrate.
3. My friends think I'm nuts for saying yes.
4. Sprinkle some roasted chopped nuts on top.
5. There's sure to be a bad nut in a basketful.

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 Meanings and Examples of NUT
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
nut
 n.  Egyptian goddess of the sky
 n.  someone who is so ardently devoted to something that it resembles an addiction
Classic Sentence: (39 in 3 pages)
1  A squirrel was perched on Dickon's bent back attentively nibbling a nut.
The Secret Garden By Frances Hodgson Burnett
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XX
2  I will also give thee this nut, continued the night-wind.
Grimms' Fairy Tales By Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm
Context  Highlight   In LILY AND THE LION
3  When they were half-way across Lily let the nut fall into the water, and immediately a large nut-tree arose from the sea, whereon the griffin rested for a while, and then carried them safely home.
Grimms' Fairy Tales By Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm
Context  Highlight   In LILY AND THE LION
4  The Yankees were proving a hard nut to crack but they were cracking at last.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XIV
5  You were always hard as a hickory nut, even as a child, and I don't like hard females, barring myself.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XL
6  His little brown face was as hard as a nut as he greeted her.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XLIV
7  It was a nut to crack for many, what these two could see in each other, or what subject they could find in common.
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde By Robert Louis Stevenson
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER STORY OF THE DOOR
8  There's sure to be a bad nut in a basketful.
Lady Chatterley's Lover By D H Lawrence
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 12
9  "Here is a nut," said he, catching one down from an upper bough, "to exemplify: a beautiful glossy nut, which, blessed with original strength, has outlived all the storms of autumn."
Persuasion By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 10
10  He tries this on very much with me, but I flatter myself he has got a tough nut to crack.
Dracula By Bram Stoker
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER V
11  Her face, healthier than her sister's, was all puckers and creases, like a shrivelled red apple, and her hair, braided in the same old-fashioned way, had not lost its ripe nut colour.
Dubliners By James Joyce
Context  Highlight   In THE DEAD
12  The yarns of seamen have a direct simplicity, the whole meaning of which lies within the shell of a cracked nut.
Heart of Darkness By Joseph Conrad
Context  Highlight   In I
13  The shock administered by the mail-wagon had split two spokes and strained the hub, so that the nut no longer held firm.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 7: CHAPTER V—HINDRANCES
14  She swore splendidly; she boasted of being able to crack a nut with one blow of her fist.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER II—TWO COMPLETE PORTRAITS
15  A little more sunshine to ripen the nut, then, not a boy's impatient shake, but a man's hand reached up to pick it gently from the burr, and find the kernal sound and sweet.
Little Women By Louisa May Alcott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER FORTY-TWO
Example Sentence: (17 in 2 pages)
1  The nut isn't tight enough yet: give it another screw.
2  It is a tough nut for him to crack.
3  It strikes me that he's right a tough nut to crack.
4  He that would eat the kernel must crack the nut.
5  He that will eat the nut must first crack the shell.
6  The most effective new botanicals are extracts from cola nut and marine algae.
7  This membrane is attached to the side of the nut, and the nut falls to the ground, when it is gathered for use.
8  I am a Clark Gable nut: I have seen all his films.
9  This animal makes a store of nuts for the winter.
10  Sprinkle some roasted chopped nuts on top.
11  My friends think I'm nuts for saying yes.
12  He's more concerned about the nuts and bolts of location work.
13  The children enjoy mixing up the fruit and nuts in the cake.
14  Cashew nuts are rich in carbohydrate.
15  The squirrel has laid in a store of nuts for the winter.