nettles in English

noun
1
a herbaceous plant that has jagged leaves covered with stinging hairs.
These so-called host plants include many broadleaf weeds and cover crops such as nettles , mallow, chicory, dandelion, thistles, bindweed, deadly nightshade, and many clovers.
verb
1
irritate or annoy (someone).
I was nettled by Alene's tone of superiority
2
beat or sting (someone) with nettles.
The weeds on either side had been cut during the last few days, otherwise I suspect my legs would have been badly nettled .

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Below are sample sentences containing the word "nettles" from the English Dictionary. We can refer to these sentence patterns for sentences in case of finding sample sentences with the word "nettles", or refer to the context using the word "nettles" in the English Dictionary.

1. The nettles stung their legs.

2. Not all nettles sting.

3. And huddle together among the nettles.

4. Nettles played detective sergeant Jim Bergerac, who …

5. Nettles and thorny weeds in her fortresses.

6. Be careful of the nettles-they sting!

7. I tingle where I sat in the nettles.

8. The fields of a sluggard quickly become full of weeds and nettles.

9. No, I tend to break into a crate of Nettles Old Fester.

10. 7 Among the bushes they Brayed; under the nettles they were gathered together

11. A place of nettles, a salt pit, and a permanent wasteland.

12. Towering trees, such as the juniper and the myrtle, replace thorns and nettles.

13. Nettles: These plants grow on wasteland, beside tracks and roads in woods and hedges.

14. 29 He swished off the tops of the nettles with his cane.

15. 1 Spawning 2 Growth 3 Weed Plant 3.1 Forget-Me-Lots 3.2 Fire Nettles 3.3 Tillweed 3.4 Spiny Bindweed There are 4 type of Weeds: Forget-Me-Lots, Fire Nettles, Tillweed and Spiny Bindweed

16. He had to deal with holly bushes, nettles, hawthorns, eglantines , thistles , and very irascible brambles.

17. With Burdocks, Hemlocks, Nettles, Cuckoo-flowers.' Also in As You Like It: ROSALIND

18. Bergerac, originally starring John Nettles as the titular private investigator, was a police procedural drama set on the island of Jersey

19. Synonyms for Aggravates include annoys, irritates, exasperates, irks, nettles, vexes, peeves, piques, provokes and riles

20. As for their desirable things of silver, nettles will dispossess them; Thistles will be in their tents.

21. The first job was to scythe paths through the nettles so the children could play without being stung.

22. Then it may be able to grasp the nettles of boundaries and ethos and see them as secondary.

23. John Nettles won hearts around the country for his character Jim Bergerac, and the TV crime series is making a comeback

24. 21 Avoid spraying your plants with pesticides, grow plants that encourage beneficial insects such as carrots, parsley, parsnips and nettles.

25. 3 Reaching about a foot in height, whorls of rose-purple flowers the same shape as dead nettles are produced in May.

26. The bride, of course, is the feisty Cully Barnaby, only child of the overworked Detective Chief Inspector Tom Barnaby, played by John Nettles

27. She moved out of the sunlight that flooded in between the nettles and into the dank gloom of the main tunnel.

28. Bullate leaves occur in a very wide range of plant families, both in tropical ornamentals and familiar temperate species such as primulas, nettles and some asters

29. Several years ago Meredith Nettles, a seismologist from Colombia University, and two colleagues made a remarkable discovery: they identified a new kind of earthquake.

30. (Psalm 126:1, 2) When they arrive in Jerusalem, they find a land choked with thickets of thorns and stinging nettles —remember, the land has lain desolate for decades.

31. ‘Nettles and tangles of bindweed, pelt-snagging goosegrass and Bedstraw alike were avoided, while he gazed with pleasure on the eager growth of scattered rowan and hawthorn saplings.’ ‘Canada goldenrod and northern Bedstraw are among the few wildflowers.’

32. The Cult was led by Marshall Applewhite, a music professor who, after surviving a near-death experience in 1972, was recruited into the Cult by one of his nurses, Bonnie Lu Nettles.

33. Jehovah had foretold: “Moab herself will become just like Sodom, and the sons of Ammon like Gomorrah, a place possessed by nettles, and a salt pit, and a desolate waste, even to time indefinite.”

34. ‘Nettles and tangles of bindweed, pelt-snagging goosegrass and Bedstraw alike were avoided, while he gazed with pleasure on the eager growth of scattered rowan and hawthorn saplings.’ ‘Canada goldenrod and northern Bedstraw are among the few wildflowers.’

35. Produced by the BBC in association with the Seven Network, and first screened on BBC1, it stars John Nettles as the title character Detective Sergeant Jim Bergerac, a detective in Le Bureau des Étrangers, part of the States of Jersey Police.

36. Information from other areas of the species' range indicate that this species is primarily a seedeater of grasses, legumes, Borages, composites, nettles, and mustards, and in spring also feeds on insects (20 to 25% of diet and contents in cheek pouches) and some green vegetation.

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