Sentence examples for chestnut from inspiring English sources
The word 'chestnut' is correct and can be used in written English
It is a noun that refers to a type of tree or its edible nut, typically dark brown in color. It can also be used as an adjective to describe a dark brown color. Example: The children collected chestnuts from the forest floor and roasted them over the fire for a tasty snack. Example: She painted her living room walls in a warm and cozy chestnut color.
noun
A tree or shrub of the genus Castanea.
The old chestnut about Nato's purpose voiced by the first Nato secretary general, Lord Ismay – "to keep the Russians out, the Americans in" – looked hopelessly anachronistic.
St George's Market in the city centre showcases the quality artisan produce – such as Hannan's beef dry-aged in the world's largest Himalayan salt chamber – that's been inspiring chefs such as Ox's Stephen Toman, who has been exciting British and Irish critics with dishes such as Skeaghanore duck, parsley root, chestnut, coffee and chicory, built on local provenance.
The final report from the Independent Panel on Forestry, for example, illustrates the build-up of diseases such as Asian longhorn beetle in broadleaved trees, Cryphonectria parasitica on sweet chestnut, oak processionary moth, acute oak decline, and other fungal diseases on a range of trees.
What a beauty he was, with pink waistcoat, highwayman's mask, chestnut wings, dove-grey skull-cap: the butcher bird, the red-backed shrike, guarding his larder.
"I was hoping we had done with this particular chestnut," she told the Guardian.
It's kind of a cross between a Scottish country home (they are from the Highlands) and a Spanish farmhouse in the middle of open chestnut forest, full of eclectic antiques and objets d'art.
So a four-night stay costs £550pp half-board, including flights and transfers October high: 22C In autumn the sandy beaches of the western Algarve are empty, and the chestnut forests of the Monchique mountains are at their best.
I strode out of the quincallería swinging my new chestnut-wood walking staff.
According to her contestant's biography, Arena is "1.70m tall, with fair chestnut-brown hair and green eyes".
In an undulation of forested hills running west from the town of Aracena towards the Portuguese border, the reserve not only protects the environment but also the region's famed hams, goat's and sheep's cheeses, wild flower honey, wild fungi and nuts from the sweet-chestnut woods.
Last summer they showed that oxalate oxidase can indeed enhance blight-resistance.A few years ago the Forest Health Initiative asked Dr Powell and some other researchers doing related studies to look at the work of the American Chestnut Foundation, a group which had been crossbreeding Chinese and American chestnuts.
