How to Use nettlesome in a Sentence

nettlesome

adjective

• And that brings us to the most nettlesome portion of this equation.
  — Gabe Lacques, USA TODAY, 16 Mar. 2020
• And then, of course, there’s the nettlesome question of who, precisely, would take that regime’s place.
  — Eric Levitz, Daily Intelligencer, 7 July 2017
• Nothing proved quite so nettlesome as the project closest to Mr. Biden’s heart.
  — Glenn Thrush, New York Times, 4 May 2020
• And there is a self-righteous streak in Hawking that some colleagues find nettlesome.
  — Jerry Adler, Newsweek, 14 Mar. 2018
• The rise of drug-resistant germs, caused by overuse of antibiotics, is one of the world’s most nettlesome health predicaments.
  — Danny Hakim, New York Times, 7 June 2019
• That probably must change if the Astros are to erase this 2-1 deficit and vanquish the nettlesome Nationals.
  — Gabe Lacques, USA TODAY, 26 Oct. 2019
• So tired old jokes will find a home with dull people, which may help explain the nettlesome persistence of Adam Sandler.
  — Popular Mechanics Editors, Popular Mechanics, 9 Apr. 2019
• And no mystery has been as nettlesome as the character of Jack Boughton, whose homecoming so unsettles the sleepy Iowa village of Gilead in the 1950s.
  — Sam Sacks, WSJ, 25 Sep. 2020
• The answer to that question is nettlesome and elusive, at least according to a new analysis.
  — Ed Silverman, STAT, 5 Dec. 2021
• One of the most nettlesome bad actors in this regard is/was the ransomware family called NetWalker.
  — Andy Meek, BGR, 18 Mar. 2021
• Kenin, a 21-year-old American, had played the second week of the tournament with her left leg taped because of an upper thigh injury that grew more nettlesome as rounds piled on.
  — New York Times, 10 Oct. 2020
• The two had met not long before at a private disco called Le Club, and instantly hit it off while discussing a nettlesome obstacle for Mr. Trump.
  — Jonathan Mahler and Matt Flegenheimer, New York Times, 20 June 2016
• The bond market has also been a nettlesome factor for investors that are desperate for stable ground.
  — Taylor Telford, BostonGlobe.com, 3 Sep. 2019
• As vice president, Obama put Biden in charge of a range of nettlesome global issues – dispatching him to more than 50 countries over his eight years.
  — Deirdre Shesgreen, USA TODAY, 20 Nov. 2020
• Making the problem more nettlesome is the fact that about 300 homeless don't want help or shelter, county Mayor Barbara Sharief said at the recent meeting.
  — Tonya Alanez, Sun-Sentinel.com, 19 May 2017
• While that reduced the chances of a massive gulf between the sides, with one hoping for a significant alteration to the landscape, the issues have remained nettlesome enough to keep them apart.
  — Gabe Lacques, USA TODAY, 16 Feb. 2022
• But with the funding in limbo, party leaders were glad to make progress on another nettlesome matter before the long recess.
  — Washington Post, 7 Apr. 2022
• Old and new riders For years, D.C. has been trying to remove what officials see as a pair of nettlesome and harmful riders from the federal budget.
  — Meagan Flynn, Washington Post, 13 July 2023
• And so the question the last four American presidents have faced, at various phases, with mixed records, is what to do about the nettlesome dictator of Pyongyang.
  — Fred Kaplan, Slate Magazine, 6 Mar. 2017
• Despite the passage of the bill, the Biden administration will now face nettlesome challenges that have helped drive down the President's approval ratings just as the midterm campaign begins to fire up.
  — Stephen Collinson, CNN, 8 Nov. 2021
• In these and many other ways, a tribe would have to navigate potentially nettlesome trade-offs in giving up some privileges in order to gain others.
  — Thomas P. Crocker, The New Republic, 8 Nov. 2022
• Courtly and polite, Peterson speaks with a mild, Muppet-y voice, yet can’t resist being nettlesome: Kermit the Firebrand.
  — Kyle Smith, National Review, 30 Oct. 2019
• An alley of that road at Polk Street, like parts of Eddy Street and other nettlesome tent haunts, regularly gets cleared and then repopulates with hard-core drug addicts within a day.
  — Kevin Fagan, SFChronicle.com, 6 May 2020
• When her pledge to obey a voluntary campaign spending cap proved nettlesome, Ms. Harris did not hesitate to reverse herself, earning a hefty ethics fine.
  — Matt Flegenheimer, New York Times, 15 Sep. 2019
• But how to enshrine DACA protections into law is a nettlesome issue.
  — Adam Shaw, Fox News, 2 Oct. 2018
• With the passage of the infrastructure bill, Senators Manchin and Sinema have less reason than ever to listen to further carping on the matter from their nettlesome critics.
  — Jason Linkins, The New Republic, 14 Aug. 2021
• The process was designed to iron out kinks in nettlesome budgets, not necessarily major social programs.
  — Philip Elliott, Time, 2 Mar. 2021
• The arguments that abound include that the program does not actually amount to forgiveness, that there are tax implications, and that there are nettlesome legal issues.
  — Thomas W. Miller Jr., National Review, 15 Dec. 2020
• Either way, passive-aggression is more than just the nettlesome habit of a few maddeningly indirect people.
  — Jeffrey Kluger, Time, 30 Aug. 2017
• The same can’t be said of several recent top editors of the New York Times, hobbled variously by nettlesome personalities, bad timing and worse luck.
  — Julia M. Klein, Los Angeles Times, 27 Sep. 2023

Last Updated: 17 Aug 2024