CHESTNUT in a Sentence
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37 example sentences for CHESTNUT, such as:
1. A man in the street was selling bags of hot chestnuts.
2. This chestnut pudding is a rich dessert with a festive flavour.
3. Frost opens chestnut burrs, ma'am, and it takes a good shake to bring them down.
4. The horses, being drenched by the rain, all looked black whether chestnut or bay.
5. Mrs. March folded the wavy chestnut lock, and laid it away with a short gray one in her desk.
2. This chestnut pudding is a rich dessert with a festive flavour.
3. Frost opens chestnut burrs, ma'am, and it takes a good shake to bring them down.
4. The horses, being drenched by the rain, all looked black whether chestnut or bay.
5. Mrs. March folded the wavy chestnut lock, and laid it away with a short gray one in her desk.
Search Quotes from Classic Book Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen |
Meanings and Examples of CHESTNUT
Definitions: Search Google Search M.Webster
chestnut
n. edible nut of any of various chestnut trees of the genus Castanea
n. any of several attractive deciduous trees yellow-brown in autumn; yield a hard wood and edible nuts in a prickly bur
Classic Sentence: (35 in 3 pages)
1 He came in gorgeous array, with plumed cap, red cloak, chestnut lovelocks, a guitar, and the boots, of course.
2 Mrs. March folded the wavy chestnut lock, and laid it away with a short gray one in her desk.
3 You are like a chestnut burr, prickly outside, but silky-soft within, and a sweet kernal, if one can only get at it.
4 Frost opens chestnut burrs, ma'am, and it takes a good shake to bring them down.
5 She had then on a dark-blue silk dress; her arms and her neck were bare; her only ornament was her chestnut tresses, which waved over her shoulders with all the wild grace of natural curls.
6 Through all this motley assemblage, threading her way with the skill of an accomplished rider, there galloped Lucy Ferrier, her fair face flushed with the exercise and her long chestnut hair floating out behind her.
A Study In Scarlet By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context Highlight In PART II: CHAPTER II. THE FLOWER OF UTAH
Context Highlight In PART II: CHAPTER II. THE FLOWER OF UTAH
7 "Don't you scare yourself," he answered, drawing her to him, and passing his broad, rough hand caressingly over her chestnut hair.
A Study In Scarlet By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context Highlight In PART II: CHAPTER III. JOHN FERRIER TALKS WITH THE PROPHET
Context Highlight In PART II: CHAPTER III. JOHN FERRIER TALKS WITH THE PROPHET
8 She herself, richly attired, and mounted on a dark chestnut palfrey, had recovered all the dignity of her manner, and only an unwonted degree of paleness showed the sufferings she had undergone.
9 A fair, sweet, and honest country face was revealed, reposing in a nest of wavy chestnut hair.
10 As you may observe, Mr. Holmes, my hair is somewhat luxuriant, and of a rather peculiar tint of chestnut.
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context Highlight In XII. THE ADVENTURE OF THE COPPER BEECHES
Context Highlight In XII. THE ADVENTURE OF THE COPPER BEECHES
11 One in a black uniform with white plumes in his hat rode a bobtailed chestnut horse, the other who was in a white uniform rode a black one.
12 The hazel bushes parted behind the hounds and Daniel's chestnut horse appeared, dark with sweat.
13 Daniel galloped up silently, holding a naked dagger in his left hand and thrashing the laboring sides of his chestnut horse with his whip as if it were a flail.
14 He knew all this and therefore waited calmly for what would happen, with more patience than the horses, especially the near one, the chestnut Falcon, who was pawing the ground and champing his bit.
15 The horses, being drenched by the rain, all looked black whether chestnut or bay.
Example Sentence:
1 This chestnut pudding is a rich dessert with a festive flavour.
2 A man in the street was selling bags of hot chestnuts.