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How to use the word nutshell in a Sentence?

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In a nutshell, we have to be a member of the alliance.

Andrzej Duda

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

Los Angeles was Los Angeles, in a nutshell, the state preemption threw a huge kink in our efforts towards carbon neutrality. This isn't the first time the state has preempted things that have made us go back to the proverbial drawing table and figure out how we get creative and innovative in a space where we don't have funding.

Nicole Antonopoulos

Found on CNN
2 years ago

To put it in a nutshell, the IOC had a scientific consensus back in 2015, there are no IOC rules or regulations around transgender participation. That depends on each international federation. So Laurel Hubbard is a woman, and is competing under the rules of her federation, and we have to pay tribute to her courage and tenacity in actually competing and qualifying for The Olympic Games.

Richard Budgett

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

To put The IOC in a nutshell, The IOC had a scientific consensus back in 2015, there are no IOC rules or regulations around transgender participation. That depends on each international federation. So Laurel Hubbard is a woman, and is competing under the rules of her federation, and we have to pay tribute to her courage and tenacity in actually competing and qualifying for The Olympic Games.

Richard Budgett

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

Unfortunately, in a nutshell, it looks like it’s going to be another busy season, we’re seeing a lot of drought. Almost half of the country is experiencing drought, and the bulk of that is to the West.

Dave Samuhel

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

I’m not for sanctuary cities, that’s pretty much it in a nutshell.

Pinal County Sheriff Paul Lamb

Found on FOX News
7 years ago

In a nutshell, the fight to end human trafficking and modern slavery is far from over, the thing is, when you are hungry or when your child is sick, you tend to make uninformed decisions. This, coupled by a culture of migration, poses risks of exploitation and abuse.

Maria Cecilia Flores-Oebanda

Found on Reuters
7 years ago

In a nutshell, they're the things that go bump in Japan's night.

Matt Alt

Found on CNN
8 years ago

In a nutshell I think Dorothy Day and Thomas Merton clearly recognized that to be a faithful member of the church, it includes and even requires being concerned with issues that go beyond the church door, it's not only possible, but also proper, for a Catholic or a member of any other religious tradition to be concerned with justice, peace in the world, understanding of other faiths and concern for the environment. [Pope Francis] is putting on record that what he’s doing is not all that new.

Abbot James Wiseman Day

Found on FOX News
8 years ago

My program in a nutshell: complete openness.

Jimmy Morales

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

That message is, in a nutshell, 'Stop pushing us. We are not going to be lectured'.

Dean Cheng

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

There seems to be certainly more potential in euro zone (earnings) than in the U.S. ... But markets with a higher domestic exposure should be more rewarding going forward than those that are internationally exposed, in a nutshell, we prefer peripheral markets like Italy and Spain to Germany.

Julius Baer

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

In a nutshell, don't say anything bad about people unless you can back it up, if you take a video of somebody stumbling out of a bar, you need to be careful calling him a drunk. He could have just tripped on the pavement.

Ken Paulson

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

The art of the critic in a nutshell: to coin slogans without betraying ideas. The slogans of an inadequate criticism peddle ideas to fashion.

Walter Benjamin

added by anonymous
10 years ago

Any philosophy that can be put in a nutshell belongs there.

Sydney Harris

added by anonymous
14 years ago

Imperious, choleric, irascible, extreme in everything, with a dissolute imagination the like of which has never been seen, atheistic to the point of fanaticism, there you have me in a nutshell, and kill me again or take me as I am, for I shall not change.

Marquis de Sade

added by anonymous
14 years ago

And that's the world in a nutshell, an appropriate receptacle.

Stan Dunn

added by anonymous
14 years ago

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