Nettle

/[ˈnɛɾʊl]/

"Nettle" in a Sentence (16 examples)

It is better to be stung by a nettle than pricked by a rose.

I found a very good drug for nettle rash.

Some traditional garments in the Philippines are made of linen and cotton; others are woven with fibres from banana or pineapple leaves or from the bark of a nettle plant.

The nettle tree gives sweet micocolli.

Among field flowers the most noted are the May Lily, the Ground Ivy, the Bluebottle, Camomile and so on; and among herbs, Trefoil, Wormwood, Sorrel, the Nettle and so forth.

Among field flowers the most noted are the May Lily, the Ground Ivy, the Cornflower, Camomile and so on; and among herbs, Trefoil, Wormwood, Sorrel, the Nettle and so forth.

Nettle proliferates, it abounds in our country. The nettle soup is good. I am just eating it. Very little will satisfy you.

I like to drink nettle tea.

I'll have to grasp the nettle, then.

Burchard had every nettle rooted up for three leagues round.

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The children were badly nettled after playing in the field.

[…] I am whipp’d and scourged with rods, / Nettled and stung with pismires, when I hear / Of this vile politician, Bolingbroke.

[T]his is no lavv unto the vvoof of the neat Retiarie Spider, vvhich ſeems to vveave vvithout tranſverſion, and by the union of right lines to make out a continued ſurface, vvhich is beyond the common art of Textury, and may ſtill nettle Minerva the Godeſſe of that myſtery.

His Miſtreſs: vvhoſe Miſtreſs, vvhat Miſtreſs; s'life hovv that little vvord has nettled me!

I saw Mr. Williams was a little nettled at my Impatience […]

Liu, whose political writings had nettled the Taiwanese authorities, was assassinated on October 15, last year, in Daly City […]

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