Nutshell
"Nutshell" in a Sentence (12 examples)
They say fine words are no virtue if they're insincere and that's him in a nutshell. He's all talk but doesn't mean a word of it.
I don't really like him, in a nutshell, I think he is an idiot.
"So, that's what happened to Tom's squirrel?" "Yes, in a nutshell."
The universe in a nutshell: I am consciousness.
There you have it all in a nutshell, Watson, and if you can give me any light I shall be infinitely obliged to you.
Here's the story in a nutshell.
Here's the story in a nutshell, said the squirrel.
Toki Pona is an attempt to interpret the meaning of life in a nutshell.
In a nutshell, the message says that the trip needs to be put back a week.
O God, I could be bounded in a nutshell and count myself a king of infinite space.
For men be now tratlers and tellers of tales; What tidings at Totnam, what newis in Wales, What ſhippis are ſailing to Scalis Malis? And all is not worth a couple of nut ſhalis.
[A]t last the fishing-line stood straight out behind, and the stone weights jumped along the tops of the billows, while the seas - notwithstanding the guiding hand of the pilot sought to avoid them - broke over our little nutshell, and sent the spray high above mast and sail.
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