NEST in a Sentence

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For NEST, below is one of 97 sentences:
The bright eyes belonged to a little gray mouse, and the mouse had eaten a hole into the cushion and made a comfortable nest there.

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 Meanings and Examples of NEST
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
nest
 n.  a structure in which animals lay eggs or give birth to their young
 v.  fit together or fit inside
Classic Sentence: (71 in 5 pages)
1  The old ones turn em out o their nest an make em fly an they're scattered before you know it.
The Secret Garden By Frances Hodgson Burnett
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER IV
2  The bright eyes belonged to a little gray mouse, and the mouse had eaten a hole into the cushion and made a comfortable nest there.
The Secret Garden By Frances Hodgson Burnett
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VI
3  He felt as if he were being led to look at some strange bird's nest and must move softly.
The Secret Garden By Frances Hodgson Burnett
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER X
4  Then she saw it was meant for a nest with a bird sitting on it.
The Secret Garden By Frances Hodgson Burnett
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XII
5  Her garden was her nest and she was like a missel thrush.
The Secret Garden By Frances Hodgson Burnett
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XIII
6  She would never again feel like a missel thrush with a safe-hidden nest.
The Secret Garden By Frances Hodgson Burnett
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XIII
7  It's no worse than hidin where a bird's nest is.
The Secret Garden By Frances Hodgson Burnett
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XV
8  In the robin's nest there were Eggs and the robin's mate sat upon them keeping them warm with her feathery little breast and careful wings.
The Secret Garden By Frances Hodgson Burnett
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXV
9  When the boy was walking and running about and digging and weeding like the others, the nest in the corner was brooded over by a great peace and content.
The Secret Garden By Frances Hodgson Burnett
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXV
10  Jim allowed they'd got spoiled and was hove out of the nest.
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn By Mark Twain
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XIX.
11  We got a splendid stock of sorted spiders, and bugs, and frogs, and caterpillars, and one thing or another; and we like to got a hornet's nest, but we didn't.
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn By Mark Twain
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXIX.
12  And the wife struck; but she missed her aim, and hit her husband on the head so that he fell down dead, and the sparrow flew quietly home to her nest.
Grimms' Fairy Tales By Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm
Context  Highlight   In THE DOG AND THE SPARROW
13  So they took stock of the hole where the nest lay, and trotted away.
Grimms' Fairy Tales By Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm
Context  Highlight   In THE WILLOW-WREN AND THE BEAR
14  The path led him into a wood, and there he saw two old ravens standing by their nest, and throwing out their young ones.
Grimms' Fairy Tales By Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm
Context  Highlight   In THE WHITE SNAKE
15  We have such funny times, and now I can enjoy them, for everyone is so desperately good, it's like living in a nest of turtledoves.
Little Women By Louisa May Alcott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER SIXTEEN
Example Sentence: (26 in 2 pages)
1  As the house is to the man, so is the nest to the bird and the cave to the animal.
2  The actual nest is a work of art.
3  Every bird likes its own nest.
4  It is an ill bird that fouls its own nest.
5  The bird befouled its own nest.
6  The bird loves her nest.
7  In May the females build a nest and lay their eggs.
8  His letter to the newspaper about racialism in schools has stirred up a real hornet's nest.
9  When I started my new job, I didn't realize that I was walking into a nest of vipers.
10  Inspecting the nest may require some ingenuity.
11  The male and female take turns to sit on the nest.
12  The male uses song to attract a female to his nest site.
13  "Well, be off, then!" said the Pigeon in a sulky tone, as it settled down again into its nest.
14  The swallow has made a nest under our eaves.
15  The bird is building a nest of straw and twigs.