How to Use nettle in a Sentence

nettle

1 of 2 noun
  • The clay pit was filled and the clay mixed with wood-nettle fibers.
    — Frank Bures, Outside Online, 17 Oct. 2019
  • For the sake of our football club, the board must grasp the nettle.
    — SI.com, 28 Feb. 2018
  • When the stock is almost gone, add the nettle puree and morel mushrooms.
    — Katie Hill, Outdoor Life, 28 Mar. 2023
  • And then there are the alcoholic drinks, which range from dry meads to nettle beers.
    — Gareth Cook, Scientific American, 24 June 2020
  • There were cheeses the shape of witch hats and flowers, cheeses wrapped in nettle leaves or covered in ash.
    — Barry Neild, CNN, 2 Nov. 2022
  • If one nettle has been grasped, thornier obstacles to a deal remain.
    — Simon Nixon, WSJ, 23 July 2017
  • Crispy oysters get dressed in creamed nettles and frozen horseradish mousse.
    — Michael Bauer, SFChronicle.com, 17 June 2018
  • As if to back his point, a male corncrake started calling from a nettle bed nearby.
    — New York Times, 4 Aug. 2022
  • Cleavers, nettles and bindweed, rejected as too thuggish, were pulled.
    — Amy Merrick, WSJ, 26 Apr. 2018
  • The single-track road dips at a stream cloaked by nettles and blackberry bushes.
    — Simon Montlake, The Christian Science Monitor, 31 Aug. 2017
  • When the nettles are cool, drain them, making sure to remove the excess water.
    — Leslie Kelly, Forbes, 9 Mar. 2023
  • In the meantime, put on gloves and clean the nettles, removing the stems and keeping just the leaves.
    — Leslie Kelly, Forbes, 9 Mar. 2023
  • Honey helps to soften and smooth hair and nettle root gives strands a healthy sheen, while helping enhance curl shape.
    — Jacqueline Saguin, goodhousekeeping.com, 10 June 2023
  • Other garments were made of nettle fabric and reindeer leather.
    — Sam Knight, The New Yorker, 28 Mar. 2022
  • My grandfather used to use a wooden walking stick and beat back the nettles—just savage them.
    — Michael Schulman, New Yorker, 12 Oct. 2025
  • Fried in a translucent tempura batter, a wild nettle leaf seems preserved in glass.
    — Soleil Ho, San Francisco Chronicle, 18 June 2021
  • Behind the hotel several cars, one tireless and up on blocks, rested among dry nettles and wild oats.
    — Karen Schoemer, New York Times, 30 May 2017
  • Like other nettle plants, the trees are covered in fine, needle-like hairs and are known to cause extreme, long-lasting pain.
    — Harry Clarke-Ezzidio, CNN, 17 Sep. 2020
  • Lamb stew with butternut squash spaetzle, shimeji mushrooms, nettles and pea shoots held the promise of spring.
    — Providence Cicero, The Seattle Times, 3 May 2017
  • The trailing tentacles can deliver a painful sting, which Pace says feels more like that of a bee than a nettle.
    — Cecilia Rodriguez, Forbes.com, 26 Aug. 2025
  • Wild greens such as fiddlehead, fireweed, nettle, seaweed and sourdock are also high in fiber.
    — Anchorage Daily News, 3 Sep. 2019
  • Felde Fibres highlighted its range of hemp, linen and nettle grown in Germany.
    — Angela Velasquez, Sourcing Journal, 9 Sep. 2025
  • What’s more, making nettles a regular part of the diet helps quell allergies and arthritis.
    — Sunset, 22 Jan. 2018
  • Burring nettle is a winter annual that disappears during hot weather but seeds can sprout again in late fall.
    — Tom MacCubbin, The Orlando Sentinel, 11 Apr. 2026
  • Toiletries bcreated for the hotel were provided in a tart Irish nettle scent.
    — New York Times, 24 Feb. 2018
  • Use one of the liquids to spray over the foliage of the burning nettle following label instructions.
    — Tom MacCubbin, OrlandoSentinel.com, 17 Mar. 2018
  • The Ramie moth is laying its eggs on several plants in the nettles family, such as mamaki and akolea.
    — USA TODAY, 10 June 2019
  • Stinging nettles love cool, damp weather and are generally in season during the late winter months.
    — Noelle Carter, latimes.com, 9 Feb. 2018
  • Look for teas that include ingredients like nettle leaf, peppermint, and licorice root, as these are known to aid in flushing out toxins.
    — Amber Smith, Discover Magazine, 13 Aug. 2023
  • But unless the West is willing to grasp this nettle, the world will continue to finance the Putin war machine.
    — The Editorial Board, WSJ, 6 Mar. 2022

nettle

2 of 2 verb
  • It nettles him that his younger coworker got a promotion before he did.
  • The mayor's recent actions have nettled some members of the community.
  • Worries about the health of the long-term-care insurance industry have nettled investors for years.
    — Leslie Scism, WSJ, 23 Oct. 2017
  • Questions about alternative facts and relative truths have been nettling me for decades.
    — Errol Morris, Time, 22 May 2018
  • What nettled him was the news media’s unquestioning reiteration of that claim.
    — Margalit Fox, New York Times, 22 Jan. 2018
  • The pastrami dog is on the lunch menu and only nettling the dining room between 11 AM and 9 PM each day.
    — Mike Sula, Chicago Reader, 12 July 2018
  • Gorsuch is a pale imitation of his predecessor, boasting a bratty attitude that has nettled justices across the ideological spectrum.
    — Mark Joseph Stern, Slate Magazine, 18 Oct. 2017

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