How to Use nightshade in a Sentence

nightshade

noun

• Note the bed that is home to the nightshades this year.
  — Nan Sterman, sandiegouniontribune.com, 5 Apr. 2018
• Instead, set up garden beds in pairs, then plant all nightshades in one of the beds the first year.
  — Nan Sterman, San Diego Union-Tribune, 1 Apr. 2023
• The fruit is dark purple-black or red, depending on the type of nightshade.
  — Arricca Elin Sansone, House Beautiful, 10 May 2023
• Plant all of your nightshade plants — tomato, pepper, eggplant, tomatillo — in the same bed.
  — Nan Sterman, sandiegouniontribune.com, 5 Apr. 2018
• Here’s a look at two upcoming classes that will teach you the splendor of working with nightshades.
  — James Patrick Kelly, idahostatesman, 27 July 2017
• Despite being a fruit, the tomato plant is part of the nightshade family of vegetables, says the AKC.
  — Evan Hecht, USA TODAY, 17 July 2022
• Chili peppers are varieties of the berry-fruit of plants from the genus Capsicum, which are members of the nightshade family Solanaceae.
  — Moiya McTier, Popular Science, 2 Aug. 2023
• Could nightshades be making a comeback in Tom Brady’s diet?
  — Julie Mazziotta, PEOPLE.com, 6 Aug. 2019
• Toothy semolina gnocchi in spicy tomato sauce bump against nuggets of fried eggplant that melt away like creamy pats of nightshade butter.
  — Craig Laban, Philly.com, 9 Dec. 2017
• Wild Zora goes a step further than most other brands and lists whether each meal is free of nightshade, allium, gluten, dairy, grain, or dairy.
  — Ac Shilton, Outside Online, 27 June 2018
• Jimsonweed, a Mexican nightshade, blooms wide along the sandy shoulder of the highway.
  — Claire Vaye Watkins, Outside Online, 15 May 2017
• The fake Tyler transforms into Weems, but before the principal can do more, she is stabbed with nightshade poison and dies right in front of Wednesday's eyes.
  — Aimée Lutkin, ELLE, 24 Nov. 2022
• All parts of any nightshade plant are poisonous; the berries probably pose the biggest risk because curious kids or pets may eat them.
  — Arricca Elin Sansone, House Beautiful, 10 May 2023
• Until the fossilized tomatillos turned up, the early fossil record for the entire nightshade family was rather, ah, shady.
  — Gemma Tarlach, Discover Magazine, 6 Jan. 2017
• Using a map of his brain waves is one of his means of achieving self-optimization, a belief in body as temple, the way Tom Brady achieves it by not eating nightshades.
  — Clay Skipper, GQ, 29 Aug. 2017
• And ultimately, yams and sweet potatoes are not nightshades.
  — Cnt Editors, Condé Nast Traveler, 5 Oct. 2023
• Without making any other changes to your diet, cut out nightshades for two to four weeks and monitor your symptoms.
  — Cynthia Sass, Mph, Health.com, 8 Aug. 2019
• Five days of no meat, no nuts, no dairy, no soy, no gluten, no caffeine, no nightshades, no sugar (including fruit), no grains, no alcohol, no, no, no.
  — Alessandra Codinha, Vogue, 4 July 2017
• But during the Bronze Age, European shamans would have had to use the plants available to them, the study suggests, including such nightshades as mandrake, henbane, thorn apple and joint pine.
  — Matt Hrodey, Discover Magazine, 13 Apr. 2023
• For example, this chicken soup is suitable for Whole30 as well as being Keto-friendly, nut-free and nightshade-free.
  — Washington Post, 1 Feb. 2022
• Plants in the nightshade family — tomato, pepper, eggplant, tomatillo — are all susceptible to the same suite of soil pathogens.
  — Nan Sterman, San Diego Union-Tribune, 3 Apr. 2021
• Then there’s atropine—a muscle relaxant derived from the toxic nightshade and mandrake plants.
  — Amit Katwala, WIRED, 22 Aug. 2023
• Garlic, not fire, ruled the nightshade in the generous bowl eggplant in garlic sauce, the healthy bowl of which retained loads of heat — the temperature kind — in its formidable slices.
  — Amy Drew Thompson, orlandosentinel.com, 12 Nov. 2020
• Any plants or foods from the nightshade family—this includes eggplants, peppers, potatoes, tomatoes, and some types of flowers and foliage.
  — Natalie Wallington, Popular Science, 31 May 2023
• In 2014, Bock’s team used this method to create a new species in the nightshade family with a combination of nuclear and organelle genomes that could not have arisen from hybridization.
  — Quanta Magazine, 20 Jan. 2021
• Due to their close resemblance to the poisonous nightshade plant, colonists only grew tomatoes for decoration.
  — al, 20 Aug. 2019
• Eggplant is one of the most popular veggie substitutes for meat, so, naturally, this nightshade makes a mean jerky, too.
  — Danielle Walsh, Bon Appetit, 27 July 2017
• Brady—who avoids white sugar, white flour, MSG, caffeine, fungus, dairy and nightshades—says that maintaining his diet allows him to enjoy an active lifestyle, on and off the field.
  — Ana Calderone, PEOPLE.com, 19 Mar. 2018
• Rigatoni alla Siciliana ($15.95) pays homage to the island of Sicily, a region known for its plump tomatoes and other hot-weather nightshades.
  — James Patrick Kelly, idahostatesman, 11 May 2017
• June discovers that Esther has been poisoning her husband with nightshade to keep him under her control.
  — Erik Kain, Forbes, 28 Apr. 2021

Last Updated: 27 Jun 2024