chestnut
Example Sentences
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Three giant horse chestnut trees, each over 80 feet tall, stand guard in front of my house.
From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 4, 2026
The sweet and soft nut plays a large role in traditional mountain cooking and tradition because in places where you couldn’t grow wheat or barley, there were still chestnut trees.
From Salon • Jan. 24, 2026
The single combat involves swinging a conker -- a hardened horse chestnut -- on a string at your opponent's nut with murderous venom, until one is smashed to pieces.
From Barron's • Oct. 17, 2025
There was the old chestnut of a botched restart reception; there were forced passes and hesitant defence.
From BBC • Jul. 2, 2025
They stayed for tea, of course, and instead of a lazy nibbling of cucumber sandwiches under the chestnut tree, we had the paraphernalia of a stiff tea in the drawing-room, which I always loathed.
From "Rebecca" by Daphne du Maurier
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
