How to use chestnut in a sentence

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• We roasted chestnuts over an open fire.From the entry open fire
• The oak and the chestnut are cupuliferous.From the entry cupuliferous
• The chestnut has an amentaceous inflorescence.From the entry amentaceous
• This sweet bean gelée, called yōkan, is studded with candied chestnuts colored yellow by gardenia petals.2021 March 23, Hannah Kirshner, “Kuri Yōkan”, in Water, Wood, and Wild Things: Learning Craft and Cultivation in a Japanese Mountain Town…. From the entry gelée
• It always came out brown and shiny, like chestnuts fresh from the tree.2015, Vilna without Vilna, in Helen Mintz (translator), Abraham Karpinowitz, Vilna My Vilna, Syracuse University Press, page 20. From the entry kishke
• The parsnip, stilton and chestnut combination may taste good, but it's not terribly decorative.2011 December 15, Felicity Cloake, “How to cook the perfect nut roast”, in Guardian. From the entry decorative
• Boiled in well-salted water, peeled and popped into our mouths, they remind us of roasted chestnuts.2009, Ann Vanderhoof, “Curry Tabanca: Trinidad”, in The Spice Necklace: A Food-lover’s Caribbean Adventure, Toronto, Ont.: Doubleday…. From the entry peewah
• Warm hair would include, honey blonds, redheads, auburn or chestnut brunettes.2009, Karen Cecilia, chapter 7, in The Lipstick Classified, Lulu.com, page 123. From the entry honey blond
• Walnuts, chestnuts, apples, Chinese grapefruits and oranges each added their stamp of approval to that celebration.1989, Corazon S. Alvina, Santa María, Halupi: Essays on Philippine Culture, Capital Publishing House, page 411. From the entry Chinese grapefruits
• I suppose that old chestnut has just got round to your club.1911, Ian Hay [pen name; John Hay Beith], chapter 9, in A Safety Match. From the entry old chestnut
• "How's the speech to-night?" he asked, languidly; "same old chestnuts, I suppose." "As this is Mr.1905, Joseph Alexander Altsheler, chapter V, in The Candidate, page 72. From the entry old chestnut
• I added a whole chestnut on top too!"2024 September 9, Itsuki Mizuho, To Another World... with Land Mines! Volume 9, J-Novel Club, →ISBN. From the entry mont blanc
• Where, lingering lovingly on kippered lies, They babble over chestnuts and their punch And stale round-table jests of years ago.2019, Robert Baldwin Ross, Masques & Phases. From the entry kippered
• More recently, sudden oak death, oak decline, beech wilt, sweet chestnut blight and horse chestnut canker have infested Europe’s forests.2018, Tim Flannery, Europe: A Natural History, page 296. From the entry sudden oak death
• Christmas limas are also called chestnut limas, because they have the nutty flavor and potato-ey texture of a chestnut.2008, Jennifer McCann, Vegan Lunch Box: 130 Amazing, Animal-Free Lunches Kids and Grown-Ups Will Love!, [Cambridge, Mass.]: Da Capo…. From the entry potato-ey
• On these photographs, the wide strips can be seen debarked from a horse chestnut tree (left) and from a poplar (right).2006, Tibor Horváth, Understanding Lightning and Lightning Protection: A Multimedia Teaching Guide, John Wiley & Sons, →ISBN, page 57. From the entry debark
• By now, however, it's unlikely that even this faithful retainer can once more pull Bush's chestnuts out of the fire.2006 Oct. 9, Jacob Heilbrunn, "‘Work Hard, Study ... and Keep Out of Politics!’" (book review), New York Times (retrieved 23 Oct 2011). From the entry pull someone's chestnuts out of the fire
• The garnishes for this presentation are perfect accompaniments for game: cranberry-orange barquettes and tartelettes filled with foie gras and chestnuts.1990, Denis Ruffel with Roland Bilheux and Alain Escoffier, translated by Anne Sterling, Meat and Games - Sauces and Bases: Execution…. From the entry tartelette
• Neighbors roasted chestnuts, kartoffels and bratwurst, raised steins of black beer and stamped over the floorboards of the tiny apartment.1980, T[homas] Coraghessan Boyle, “Rock & Roll Heaven”, in Joe David Bellamy, editor, Moral Fiction: An Anthology, Canton, N.Y.: Fiction…. From the entry kartoffel
• Chestnuts, soaked in muscadel, then boiled, along with satyrion, pistachio nuts, pine kernels, cubebs, cinnamon, rocket seed and sugar.1961, Harry E. Wedeck, Dictionary of Aphrodisiacs, New York: The Citadel Press, page 60. From the entry stimulating
• Mouy, invented a nesselrode pudding of chestnuts and fruits.1956 December 9, Jane Nickerson, “CHEESE CAKE WITH CRANBERRY GLAZE”, in The New York Times, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company…. From the entry nesselrode pudding
• The stateroom walls are veneered with finely figured English chestnut with the skirting and mouldings in English walnut.1947 January and February, “South African Royal Train”, in Railway Magazine, page 36. From the entry veneer
• So smooth of face, so fine of eye, so much a beautiful part of his beautiful chestnut prad.1938, Xavier Herbert, chapter XIII, in Capricornia, New York: D. Appleton-Century, published 1943, page 212. From the entry prad
• The leaves of the chestnut were crisped with gold.1925, Warwick Deeping, chapter 7, in Sorrell and Son, New York: Grosset & Dunlap, published 1926, page 66. From the entry crisp
• The horse chestnut, buckeye and hickory trees have palmate leaves.1909, Eleanor Stockhouse Atkinson, “In the Tree Tops”, in The How and Why Library. From the entry palmate
• The whistlepigs, or woodchucks as we would call them in the North, get very fat in the autumn feeding on chestnuts.1904, Clifton Johnson, Highways and Byways of the South, New York: Macmillan Company, page 141. From the entry whistle pig
• A Mont Blanc is a celebration of decadent chestnut cream, a particularly beloved and nostalgic French flavor, and is eaten primarily around Christmas.2024 February 13, Kimberly Zerkel, The French Bakery Cookbook: Over 85 Authentic Recipes That Bring the Boulangerie Into Your Home, →ISBN…. From the entry mont blanc
• Change your wardrobe so it is all earth shades: salmon, tans, umber, ocher, sienna, chestnut, khaki, russet, taupe, ecru, biscuit, camel, etc.2019 September 12, Gene Weingarten, “Gene Weingarten: Who said you have to sort the silverware, anyway?”, in The Washington Post…. From the entry foo-foo
• In China, even buying gao lak or chestnuts from a street vendor is done via e-payment methods such as WeChat Pay and AliPay.2017 August 20, Lee Min Kok, “PM Lee Hsien Loong's National Day Rally speech: All you need to know in 3 minutes”, in The Straits Times. From the entry gao lak
• The duck on his left shoulder is the chestnut teal (mudjigin), and the one on his right is a burdekin duck (tindirrgam).2005, Allan Marett, Songs, Dreamings, and Ghosts: The Wangga of North Australia, page 17. From the entry Burdekin duck
• The chinese water chestnut and the tiger nut, or chufa, are both members of the sedge family, a group of water grasses that includes papyrus.2004, Harold McGee, chapter 6, in On Food and Cooking: The Science and Lore of the Kitchen, Scribner, →ISBN. From the entry chufa
• The crisp, mildly sweet water chestnut – "bee-chee" in Mandarin – is the biggest export from the Kuantien district in central Tainan County.2004 April 30, Bob Mackin, “Travel Story - In a nutshell”, in Pique Newsmagazine, archived from the original on 20 Sep 2023, Travel. From the entry Fujianese
• The Identifier personally inspects each horse in each race by verifying the lip tattoo, body color, head and leg markings, scars, and chestnut (night eyes).2001, Theodore A. Landers, The Career Guide to the Horse Industry. From the entry identifier
• The cultivated harvest in the fields was matched by the woodland ‘mast’ of beechnuts, acorns, chestnuts, and other fruits of the forest.1999, Robert Lacey, Danny Danziger, The Year 1000: What life was like at the turn of The First Millennium, London: Abacus, published 2000…. From the entry mast
• On the glowing holes at the top Ya‘qub Artin has carefully placed some chestnuts, each with a neat incision in its side.1999, Ahdaf Soueif, chapter 28, in The Map of Love, London: Bloomsbury, published 2000, page 470. From the entry incision
• Quality of three kinds of honey from acacia, chestnut and polyflower sources, was evaluated by physicochemical and GC-MS analysis in respect to some chemical composition.1991, YG Lee, BU Min, SU Lim, “Comparative study on some quality-related components of different floral honeys -esp. on the contents of…. From the entry polyflower
• The smell of chestnuts and pretzels and sauerkrauty steam pouring out of Sabrett’s; the clip-clop of horse-drawn carriages; the bells of Salvation Army Santas.1982, K. C. Cole, Between the Lines: Searching for the Space Between Feminism and Femininity and Other Tight Spots, Garden City, N.Y.…. From the entry sauerkrauty
• I wanted to jog in leisurely fashion through the green fields and chestnut avenues, over the rushing bubbling streamlets, to join Sylvie.1974, Lawrence Durrell, Monsieur, Faber & Faber, published 1992, page 19. From the entry streamlet
• The spiny joints, somewhat suggestive of superferocious chestnut burrs, become detached by a mere touch — often from a gently stirring breeze.1941, American Museum of Natural History, Natural History Magazine, Incorporated, Natural History, The American Museum of Natural History…. From the entry superferocious

Meaning of chestnut

1. noun An edible nut (technically a fruit) of the Spanish chestnut or sweet chestnut tree (Castanea sativa); also (chiefly preceded by a descriptive word), a nut from a related shrub or tree; or a similar nut from an unrelated plant.
2. noun In full chestnut tree: the shrub or tree that bears this nut, the Spanish chestnut or sweet chestnut (Castanea sativa); also (chiefly preceded by a descriptive word), a shrub or tree of the genus Castanea.
3. noun Wood of a chestnut tree.

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How do you use chestnut in a sentence?

Chestnut is used as a noun and adjective. For example: “We roasted chestnuts over an open fire.”

What is a short sentence with chestnut?

“The chestnut has an amentaceous inflorescence.”

What does chestnut mean?

Chestnut means an edible nut (technically a fruit) of the Spanish chestnut or sweet chestnut tree (Castanea sativa); also (chiefly preceded by a descriptive word), a nut from a related shrub or tree; or a similar nut from an unrelated plant.