How to Use wattle in a Sentence

wattle

noun
Definition of wattlenext
  • For the wattle: Cut a small pieces of licorice in a L shape and stick one on a side of the nose.
    — Kate Merker, Good Housekeeping, 17 Sep. 2020
  • Add black beads for eyes, along with a paper beak and wattle.
    — Southern Living Editors, Southern Living, 29 Sep. 2023
  • Sydney was awash in green and gold, and the wave of wattle is looking to wash over the rest of the country in the coming weeks.
    — Rachel Yabsley, Vogue, 1 Aug. 2023
  • The three hoisted two wattles onto their shoulders and strode up a hill.
    — Blake Nelson, San Diego Union-Tribune, 24 Nov. 2023
  • During a brief sequence on the women’s high jump, Ichikawa suddenly cuts to what looks like the wattle of an elderly spectator, then to another.
    — Chris Vognar, Vulture, 26 May 2021
  • Sprigs of wattle have been used to represent Australia for decades, notably decorating the colonial-era Commonwealth Coat of Arms.
    — Nora McGreevy, Smithsonian Magazine, 5 Apr. 2022
  • Another Baldwin favorite is the twisted desert wattle (Acacia aphylla), a sculptural plant with twisty, deep green branches and little fluff balls of yellow flowers at the tips.
    — Jeanette Marantos, Los Angeles Times, 1 Dec. 2023
  • Yet the wattle’s importance to human societies predates Australia’s colonial period by tens of thousands of years, as new research makes clear.
    — Nora McGreevy, Smithsonian Magazine, 5 Apr. 2022
  • Compared to these familiar objects, though, Hamana’s tsubo are at once imposing — most measure nearly 30 inches across — and delicate, their weathered and cracked surfaces echoing the crumbling wattle-and-daub walls of their home.
    — New York Times, 3 Dec. 2021
  • The beauty of the virtual chicken is that the researchers could test the female’s reaction to a rooster with a wattle and without one, and watch her responses to wattles of varying size and flexibility—all by altering the appendage digitally.
    — Kate Wong, Scientific American, 21 Jan. 2014
  • Symptoms in infected birds include neurological symptoms, fatigue, swollen comb or wattles, difficulty walking, nasal discharge and decreased egg production.
    — Annie Berman, Anchorage Daily News, 14 May 2023
  • For the wattle: Cut a small pieces of licorice in a L shape and stick one on a side of the nose.
    — Kate Merker, Good Housekeeping, 17 Sep. 2020
  • Add black beads for eyes, along with a paper beak and wattle.
    — Southern Living Editors, Southern Living, 29 Sep. 2023
  • Sydney was awash in green and gold, and the wave of wattle is looking to wash over the rest of the country in the coming weeks.
    — Rachel Yabsley, Vogue, 1 Aug. 2023
  • The three hoisted two wattles onto their shoulders and strode up a hill.
    — Blake Nelson, San Diego Union-Tribune, 24 Nov. 2023
  • During a brief sequence on the women’s high jump, Ichikawa suddenly cuts to what looks like the wattle of an elderly spectator, then to another.
    — Chris Vognar, Vulture, 26 May 2021
  • Sprigs of wattle have been used to represent Australia for decades, notably decorating the colonial-era Commonwealth Coat of Arms.
    — Nora McGreevy, Smithsonian Magazine, 5 Apr. 2022
  • Another Baldwin favorite is the twisted desert wattle (Acacia aphylla), a sculptural plant with twisty, deep green branches and little fluff balls of yellow flowers at the tips.
    — Jeanette Marantos, Los Angeles Times, 1 Dec. 2023
  • Yet the wattle’s importance to human societies predates Australia’s colonial period by tens of thousands of years, as new research makes clear.
    — Nora McGreevy, Smithsonian Magazine, 5 Apr. 2022
  • Compared to these familiar objects, though, Hamana’s tsubo are at once imposing — most measure nearly 30 inches across — and delicate, their weathered and cracked surfaces echoing the crumbling wattle-and-daub walls of their home.
    — New York Times, 3 Dec. 2021
  • The beauty of the virtual chicken is that the researchers could test the female’s reaction to a rooster with a wattle and without one, and watch her responses to wattles of varying size and flexibility—all by altering the appendage digitally.
    — Kate Wong, Scientific American, 21 Jan. 2014
  • Symptoms in infected birds include neurological symptoms, fatigue, swollen comb or wattles, difficulty walking, nasal discharge and decreased egg production.
    — Annie Berman, Anchorage Daily News, 14 May 2023
  • For the wattle: Cut a small pieces of licorice in a L shape and stick one on a side of the nose.
    — Kate Merker, Good Housekeeping, 17 Sep. 2020
  • Add black beads for eyes, along with a paper beak and wattle.
    — Southern Living Editors, Southern Living, 29 Sep. 2023
  • Sydney was awash in green and gold, and the wave of wattle is looking to wash over the rest of the country in the coming weeks.
    — Rachel Yabsley, Vogue, 1 Aug. 2023
  • The three hoisted two wattles onto their shoulders and strode up a hill.
    — Blake Nelson, San Diego Union-Tribune, 24 Nov. 2023
  • During a brief sequence on the women’s high jump, Ichikawa suddenly cuts to what looks like the wattle of an elderly spectator, then to another.
    — Chris Vognar, Vulture, 26 May 2021
  • Sprigs of wattle have been used to represent Australia for decades, notably decorating the colonial-era Commonwealth Coat of Arms.
    — Nora McGreevy, Smithsonian Magazine, 5 Apr. 2022
  • Another Baldwin favorite is the twisted desert wattle (Acacia aphylla), a sculptural plant with twisty, deep green branches and little fluff balls of yellow flowers at the tips.
    — Jeanette Marantos, Los Angeles Times, 1 Dec. 2023
  • Yet the wattle’s importance to human societies predates Australia’s colonial period by tens of thousands of years, as new research makes clear.
    — Nora McGreevy, Smithsonian Magazine, 5 Apr. 2022

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