Thesaurus / nettle

nettle

EXAMPLE SENTENCES FROM THE WEB

General exclamations of surprise and doubt greeted him from our little circle, and this seemed to nettle him somewhat.

A curious dark blue dead-nettle (Dracocephalum speciosum) was found on dry ground at the same altitude.

"Not a word," said Neeld, grasping the nettle firmly this time.

The Nettle needs no introduction; we are all too well acquainted with it, yet it is not altogether a weed to be despised.

Indeed, the temper of our eminently serene will feel the strain of a doldrum-dulness that is goaded to activity by a nettle.

He then searched upon the ground among the blades of grass, and at length found a nettle, which he pulled up by the roots.

The other is a little red ant, which stings like a nettle, and generally has its nest under the leaf of a shrub.

For her mother's question had been asked, very slightly varied, in a nettle-grasping sense.

SOMEHOW GOODWILLIAM DE MORGAN

He wormed his way between the bricks, and tumbled head over heels into the nettle bed below the wall.

She reflectively rubbed her chin, for it had been stung with a day-old beard that pricked like a nettle.

THE WRONG TWINHARRY LEON WILSON

APRIL 14, 2021

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