Nutshell

//ˈnʌt.ʃɛl//

"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.

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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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