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How to use nellies in a sentence

Looking for sentences and phrases with the word nellies? Here are some examples.

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It just so happens there are enough nervous nellies in the Labor and National Parties to ensure that such a proposal would not get up.
Wait till you had the bandage ready, and the whole reform opportunity would be suffocated by nervous nellies.
Coincidentally, none of them has ever been among the nervous nellies who pale at the thought of being alone with yours truly.
Our frontier was not settled by nervous nellies with degrees in Peace Studies.
Even now when we have so many suffering from these unfair tariffs and duties some felt it was prudent to call these people nervous nellies.
That's code to nervous Coalition nellies, is it not, to hold their nerve?
Were the nervous nellies and the backside coverers more persuasive?
I find this situation highly degrading for a number of people, particularly those in British Columbia because they are who was referred to when the parliamentary secretary stood in the House and called them nervous nellies.
From what I hear, most of them peckerwoods, were nellies anyway.
We can't be negative Nellies and Debbie downers and doomsday preachers that there is going to be economic peril.
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America is better and stronger than the nervous Nellies and chickenhawk war-mongers who currently have control of the Republican Party.
Perhaps the nervous Nellies are actually those sitting on the government side of the House unwilling to lift a finger in case they may rock the boat.
Examples from Classical Literature
Rose kissed the sad little face, and brushed back the rudely cropped hair, that lay in ringlets on nellies head.
And maybe this poor fellow will come to his senses and try nellies lemon meringue pieits a dandy, Nellie!
They seem to have only one oar, and nellies trying to steer with that.
And what a jumble of Netties, Nellies, Hatties, and Sallies there is.
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