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How to use nit in a sentence

11 example sentences · noun, verb

Nit means the egg of a louse. Example: “This brightness of this LCD screen is between 900 and 1000 nits.”

Examples of nit by meaning

nounA candela per square metre.

  • This brightness of this LCD screen is between 900 and 1000 nits.

More sentences with nit

  • And you and Clarko you did bits and I heard that this bird got nits.2017 November 7, “Courtney Jade Reply (Freestyle)”performed by Soph Aspin. From the entry do bits
  • Notice M.O. 24 to be revised and issued in cases of slightly nitted heads.1915, London County Council, Annual Report of the Proceedings of the Council. From the entry nitted
  • There are only a few nits to pick.2016 June 20, Ned Lannamann, “Slog: Game of Thrones Recap! Talk Is Cheap in ‘The Battle of the Bastards’”, in The Stranger, Seattle…. From the entry nitty
  • If you find nits, it's time for some serious debugging.2011, Jay Heinrichs, Home Remedies from a Country Doctor. From the entry debug
  • And one minor nit: consultants are not telepathic, they're telepathetic.1995 September 20, Matt Clonfero, “SC-21 class?”, in sci.military.naval (Usenet). From the entry telepathetic
  • By the sheer force of his powerful mind--powerful, that is, compared to the nits who bought his line of booshwa.1988 May 13, Cecil Adams, “The Straight Dope”, in Chicago Reader. From the entry booshwa
  • “I'm sure they'd pass her a note from you, as long as it's got a Yard seal and has been sprayed for nits.2014, Lynn Viehl, Disenchanted & Co., Simon and Schuster, →ISBN, page 61. From the entry nobber
  • But now am in total fug about what to text Roxster about tonight, and whether I should tell him about the nits.2013, Helen Fielding, Bridget Jones: Mad about the Boy, →ISBN, page 7. From the entry fug
  • The nits will stick to the cotton to quite an extent anyway, in spite of all the efforts made to prevent it.1907 November, J. F. M., “Questions and Answers [Setting Cotton Cards]”, in Textile World Record: Combining The Textile World and Textile…. From the entry nitty
  • At the end of the month when Ayah conducts her biyearly search for nits on our heads, she discovers we have each sprung one white hair!1988, Bapsi Sidhwa, Ice-Candy Man, Daunt Books (2016), page 185. From the entry biyearly

Meaning of nit

  1. noun The egg of a louse.
  2. noun A young louse.
  3. noun A head louse regardless of its age.

Full definition of nit

Questions about nit in a sentence

How do you use nit in a sentence?
Nit is used as a noun and verb. For example: “This brightness of this LCD screen is between 900 and 1000 nits.”
What is a short sentence with nit?
“There are only a few nits to pick.”
What does nit mean?
Nit means the egg of a louse.

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Adapted from Wiktionary: nit (page history and authors) and the entries each sentence comes from. Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws chose the sentences, left out offensive ones and quotations older than 1900, and marked the word in each. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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