How to Use nettlesome in a Sentence

nettlesome

adjective
  • And that brings us to the most nettlesome portion of this equation.
    — Gabe Lacques, USA TODAY, 16 Mar. 2020
  • Yet that also could require a nettlesome legal process that could drag on for years.
    — Mary Cunningham, CBS News, 1 May 2026
  • And then, of course, there’s the nettlesome question of who, precisely, would take that regime’s place.
    — Eric Levitz, Daily Intelligencer, 7 July 2017
  • And there is a self-righteous streak in Hawking that some colleagues find nettlesome.
    — Jerry Adler, Newsweek, 14 Mar. 2018
  • But this hasn't stopped printer makers from fighting to keep the nettlesome practice.
    — Scharon Harding, Ars Technica, 15 Aug. 2023
  • The rise of drug-resistant germs, caused by overuse of antibiotics, is one of the world’s most nettlesome health predicaments.
    — Danny Hakim, New York Times, 7 June 2019
  • The bond market has also been a nettlesome factor for investors that are desperate for stable ground.
    — Taylor Telford, BostonGlobe.com, 3 Sep. 2019
  • The answer to that question is nettlesome and elusive, at least according to a new analysis.
    — Ed Silverman, STAT, 5 Dec. 2021
  • But, for the prosecutors, the fractured gun parts have raised nettlesome questions about the integrity of the firearm.
    — Meg James, Los Angeles Times, 26 Feb. 2024
  • So tired old jokes will find a home with dull people, which may help explain the nettlesome persistence of Adam Sandler.
    — Popular Mechanics Editors, Popular Mechanics, 9 Apr. 2019
  • But with the funding in limbo, party leaders were glad to make progress on another nettlesome matter before the long recess.
    — Washington Post, 7 Apr. 2022
  • The process was designed to iron out kinks in nettlesome budgets, not necessarily major social programs.
    — Philip Elliott, Time, 2 Mar. 2021
  • One of the most nettlesome bad actors in this regard is/was the ransomware family called NetWalker.
    — Andy Meek, BGR, 18 Mar. 2021
  • In these and many other ways, a tribe would have to navigate potentially nettlesome trade-offs in giving up some privileges in order to gain others.
    — Thomas P. Crocker, The New Republic, 8 Nov. 2022
  • Either way, passive-aggression is more than just the nettlesome habit of a few maddeningly indirect people.
    — Jeffrey Kluger, Time, 30 Aug. 2017
  • That probably must change if the Astros are to erase this 2-1 deficit and vanquish the nettlesome Nationals.
    — Gabe Lacques, USA TODAY, 26 Oct. 2019
  • Student loans have proven to be a particularly nettlesome issue for DeVos.
    — Linda Jacobson, Detroit Free Press, 28 Oct. 2020
  • While that reduced the chances of a massive gulf between the sides, with one hoping for a significant alteration to the landscape, the issues have remained nettlesome enough to keep them apart.
    — Gabe Lacques, USA TODAY, 16 Feb. 2022
  • Kenin, a 21-year-old American, had played the second week of the tournament with her left leg taped because of an upper thigh injury that grew more nettlesome as rounds piled on.
    — New York Times, 10 Oct. 2020
  • But how to enshrine DACA protections into law is a nettlesome issue.
    — Adam Shaw, Fox News, 2 Oct. 2018
  • But how to enshrine DACA protections into law is a nettlesome issue.
    — Adam Shaw, Fox News, 7 June 2018
  • As vice president, Obama put Biden in charge of a range of nettlesome global issues – dispatching him to more than 50 countries over his eight years.
    — Deirdre Shesgreen, USA TODAY, 20 Nov. 2020
  • The arguments that abound include that the program does not actually amount to forgiveness, that there are tax implications, and that there are nettlesome legal issues.
    — Thomas W. Miller Jr., National Review, 15 Dec. 2020
  • And so the question the last four American presidents have faced, at various phases, with mixed records, is what to do about the nettlesome dictator of Pyongyang.
    — Fred Kaplan, Slate Magazine, 6 Mar. 2017
  • Despite the passage of the bill, the Biden administration will now face nettlesome challenges that have helped drive down the President's approval ratings just as the midterm campaign begins to fire up.
    — Stephen Collinson, CNN, 8 Nov. 2021
  • Making the problem more nettlesome is the fact that about 300 homeless don't want help or shelter, county Mayor Barbara Sharief said at the recent meeting.
    — Tonya Alanez, Sun-Sentinel.com, 19 May 2017
  • An alley of that road at Polk Street, like parts of Eddy Street and other nettlesome tent haunts, regularly gets cleared and then repopulates with hard-core drug addicts within a day.
    — Kevin Fagan, SFChronicle.com, 6 May 2020
  • With the passage of the infrastructure bill, Senators Manchin and Sinema have less reason than ever to listen to further carping on the matter from their nettlesome critics.
    — Jason Linkins, The New Republic, 14 Aug. 2021
  • Just within the past half-decade, dozens of Islamic communities throughout the country have seen nettlesome zoning regulations delay, downsize or outright block mosque projects from moving forward.
    — Connor Letourneau, San Francisco Chronicle, 11 Apr. 2026
  • And no mystery has been as nettlesome as the character of Jack Boughton, whose homecoming so unsettles the sleepy Iowa village of Gilead in the 1950s.
    — Sam Sacks, WSJ, 25 Sep. 2020

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