nettles
Example Sentences
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Zookeepers then pivot to old-fashioned tracking, braving thickets of brambles and stinging nettles in search of footprints.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 14, 2026
He also had to work to sustain the voracious creatures, foraging daily for nettles to feed them.
From Science Magazine ● May 20, 2024
But the khobeza is starting to run out, he said, so he now lives off a soup made from hot water and stinging nettles.
From Seattle Times ● Apr. 11, 2024
Working on a rooftop farm in Brooklyn expo sed me to nettles.
From Salon ● Jan. 31, 2024
They were coming to a thicket of juniper and dog roses, tangled at ground level with nettles and trails of bryony on which the berries were now beginning to ripen and turn red.
From "Watership Down: A Novel" by Richard Adams
