Used in a Sentence

nelly

Definitions, parts of speech, synonyms, and sentence examples for nelly.

Editorial note

But you can imagine a well-funded Big Drug company signing up Nelly as a smokesman for the Nelly Blunt (TM) and aggressively marketing it to chuckle adults of legal age who will indulge responsibly.

Examples17
Definitions4
Parts of speech1

Quick take

A giant petrel, Macronectes giganteus and Macronectes halli.

Meaning at a glance

The clearest senses and uses of nelly gathered in one view.

noun

A giant petrel, Macronectes giganteus and Macronectes halli.

noun

A surname.

noun

One of the Frazier Islands where nellies breed.

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for nelly.

noun

A giant petrel, Macronectes giganteus and Macronectes halli.

noun

A surname.

noun

One of the Frazier Islands where nellies breed.

noun

(derogatory, slang) An effeminate homosexual man.

Example sentences

1

But you can imagine a well-funded Big Drug company signing up Nelly as a smokesman for the Nelly Blunt (TM) and aggressively marketing it to chuckle adults of legal age who will indulge responsibly.

2

Just to level set, I am not being a negative nelly here, I think this is a super cool idea.

3

Not trying to be a negative nelly, just giving honest feedback.

4

Negative Nelly warning: I've bought a couple of these bundles but won't buy another.

5

Bondi is weapons grade party trash so Nelly is actually higher quality than I would expect from her, but certainly not inconceivable.

6

Danja ghosted a TON of Timbaland's mid-2000s work (think Nelly Fertado, Justin Timberlake, etc.) and was able to land his own gig with Britney Spears shortly thereafter.

7

Bondi listening to Nelly is difficult to comprehend.

8

That also precludes the utopian vision of many Bitcoin devotees - unless Grandma Nelly who works as a greeter at Wal-Mart can understand finance, you're always going to have intermediaries.

9

These are not nervous nelly academics we're talking about here.

10

I added a few things this afternoon and didn't spell check:) As for negative nelly, the post right after the markdown one is about an alternative (for a very specific context).

11

Not to be a negative Nelly or anything, but with the speed at which Amazon is releasing this stuff, they are going to have to be a Google eventually and pull the rug out from under our feet, discontinuing several products.

12

> The Gemini app surpasses 650 million users per month, more than 70% of our Cloud customers use our AI, 13 million developers have built with our generative models, and that is just a snippet of the impact we’re seeing Not to be a negative nelly, but these numbers are definitely inflated due to Google literally pushing their AI into everything they can, much like M$.

Quote examples

1

When somebody figures this out, though, it is potentially truly disruptive, not in the Clay Christensen sense but in the "whoa Nelly there go the assumptions we've based a good part of our entire industrial economy on" sense.

2

So, knowing that and knowing how difficult of a topic false accusations are to study and how little we know about the bad side of human beings, I would hope that anybody who is reasonable would read "rape is a bigger deal than false accusations of rape" and say whoa, nelly, partner, do you know something that the rest of us don't or are you acting on your gut feeling?

Proper noun examples

1

It's just annoying that he/she isn't providing any solutions and is just being a Negative Nelly.

2

I want to see how this thing works, but oh, Nelly, what a wipe-out!

3

Whoa Nelly, that's a steep drop from 2012.

Frequently asked questions

Short answers drawn from the clearest meanings and examples for this word.

How do you use nelly in a sentence?

But you can imagine a well-funded Big Drug company signing up Nelly as a smokesman for the Nelly Blunt (TM) and aggressively marketing it to chuckle adults of legal age who will indulge responsibly.

What does nelly mean?

A giant petrel, Macronectes giganteus and Macronectes halli.

What part of speech is nelly?

nelly is commonly used as noun.