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Example sentences for "nutshell"

Lexicographically close words:
nutrition; nutritional; nutritious; nutritive; nuts; nuttin; nutting; nutty; nutu; nuver
  1. After sending out an expedition to Newman's Bay, during the progress of which one of the boats was crushed like a nutshell by the grinding ice, Captain Buddington determined to sail for the United States.

  2. As long as their friendly barrier lasted there was little cause for fear; but who could tell the moment when it might be demolished, and the ship crack like a nutshell among the grinding, crashing ice masses?

  3. Here in a nutshell is the kernel of the subject: Disease may be caused by physical or by psychic forces.

  4. Nutshell thickness varied between 1/2 and 2 millimeters; the more angled the nut, the thicker the shell.

  5. Types B and C were the ones which most frequently were found with the brownish white nutshell color.

  6. Going back now to the subject; we asked you, through the Nutshell and through members of the Program Committee, to send in the biggest problem in connection with whatever nut species you grow.

  7. Little Glimpses of the 19th Century The Great Events in the History of the Last One Hundred Years, Assembled so as to Present a Nutshell Record.

  8. In the following nutshell biographies of famous bachelors it will be observed that a majority of the men named are philosophers.

  9. Let us spend one day as deliberately as Nature, and not be thrown off the track by every nutshell and mosquito's wing that falls on the rails.

  10. And The Nutshell is a very excellent means of showing somebody what the organization is about.

  11. Another matter discussed was offering the set of 34 volumes of back reports in The Nutshell at the price of $20.

  12. To go all that long way in such a nutshell of a boat!

  13. Another moment and she would have been swept away, but taking a nutshell from her pocket she set it afloat upon the waters, muttering a charm as she did so.

  14. Then the nutshell turned into a little boat, into which the old crone pulled herself, and, paddling with her broom, made shift to cross the river.

  15. What a college man saw in a copper-mine in the Southwest gives in a nutshell the logic of low wages.

  16. Here in a nutshell are presented the social effects that naturally follow the introduction into an advanced people of great numbers of backward immigrants.

  17. Sawyer 180 The Higher Pantheism in a Nutshell A.

  18. In this case Aunt Jen was usually invited not to meddle, on the forcible plea that what a score of old maids knew about rearing a family could be put into a nutshell without risk of overcrowding.

  19. There in a nutshell was the whole philosophy of politics.

  20. It does not, therefore, surprise us, does not clash with our sense of your native greatness, that for our particular Iliad you prove a very nutshell Homer indeed.

  21. Veikko handed his father a nutshell at sight of which his brothers burst out laughing.

  22. So at first he kept the nutshell hidden in his pocket.

  23. Just as Veikko and the nutshell coach had reached the middle of the bridge, a man met them coming from the opposite direction.

  24. But their laughter died as the farmer opened the nutshell and began shaking out a great web of the finest linen.

  25. The coach when it came turned out to be an empty nutshell and the five prancing steeds that were drawing it were five black mice.

  26. But it got the conversation still further away from that nutshell deposit; and that was good, so far.

  27. Ned picked up the little nutshell and plugging it up with moss, placed it carefully in his knapsack with the Magic Axe and the Magic Pickaxe.

  28. He quietly opened his knapsack again and took out the nutshell covered with moss, and placed it on a magnificent fountain vase which, not having any water, had been filled with a beautiful bouquet of flowers.

  29. Mr O'Brien puts the whole position in a nutshell when he says: "The Party was reunified rather than reformed.

  30. There, in a nutshell and sufficiently stated, are the two policies.

  31. Nobody, except a little nutshell of people here, knows or cares anything about her any more; and soon even the nutshell will be empty.

  32. Nutshell Photograph Novelty [24] Split an English walnut in the center, remove the contents, and scrape out the rough parts.

  33. Moreover, the judgements themselves are not always explicit; they may occur in nutshell form, as mental attitudes.

  34. They are vague and elusive processes, which carry as if in a nutshell the entire meaning of a situation.


  35. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "nutshell" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    abridge; ace; atom; bit; brief; capsule; condense; digest; dole; dot; dram; dribble; driblet; dwarf; epitomize; farthing; fragment; grain; granule; groat; hair; handful; iota; jot; little; minim; minimum; minutiae; mite; modicum; molecule; mote; nutshell; ounce; outline; particle; pebble; pinch; pittance; point; scallop; scruple; shell; shorten; sketch; speck; spot; sum; summarize; tittle; whit