NESTLE in a Sentence

nestle

 v.  settle or lie comfortably within or against something

1  Beth nestled up to her, and whispered softly, "I wish I could send my bunch to Father."

Little Women By Louisa May Alcott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER TWO

2  Too weak to wonder at anything, she only smiled and nestled close in the loving arms about her, feeling that the hungry longing was satisfied at last.

Little Women By Louisa May Alcott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER TWENTY

3  A rosy, chubby, sunshiny little soul was Daisy, who found her way to everybody's heart, and nestled there.

Little Women By Louisa May Alcott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER FORTY-FIVE

4  I did so: she put her arm over me, and I nestled close to her.

Jane Eyre By Charlotte Bronte
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER IX

5  I again nestled to the breast of the hill; and ere long in sleep forgot sorrow.

Jane Eyre By Charlotte Bronte
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXVIII

6  Clover made a sort of wall round them with her great foreleg, and the ducklings nestled down inside it and promptly fell asleep.

Animal Farm By George Orwell
Context  Highlight   In Chapter I

7  And she nestled up to him, feeling small and enfolded, and they both went to sleep at once, fast in one sleep.

Lady Chatterley's Lover By D H Lawrence
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 14

8  She nestled down, not to be away from him.

Lady Chatterley's Lover By D H Lawrence
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 16

9  Holmes nestled in silence into his heavy coat, and I was glad to do the same, for the air was most bitter, and neither of us had broken our fast.

The Return of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In XII. THE ADVENTURE OF THE ABBEY GRANGE

10  Jip nestled closer to his mistress, and lazily licked her hand.

David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 48. DOMESTIC

11  And again Grisha poked his little face under her arm, and nestled with his head on her gown, beaming with pride and happiness.

Anna Karenina 1 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In PART 1: Chapter 20

12  The black velvet of her locket nestled with special softness round her neck.

Anna Karenina 1 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In PART 1: Chapter 22

13  Our tree became the talking tree of the fairy tale; legends and stories nestled like birds in its branches.

My Antonia By Willa Cather
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1. The Shimerdas: XI

14  The youth nestled in it and rested, making a convenient rail support the flag.

The Red Badge of Courage By Stephen Crane
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 23

15  A neat and tidy home nestled in a flower-garden, and a little store stands beside it.

The Souls of Black Folk By W. E. B. Du Bois
Context  Highlight   In VII

1  John took one child into the crook of each arm and let them nestle against him.

2  Literally Buddha Place, Boudhanath is a village nestled within the sprawling Nepalese city; even though it's now a part of Kathmandu, it retains the self-contained cosiness of a village.

3  Bessie had been down into the kitchen, and she brought up with her a tart on a certain brightly painted china plate, whose bird of paradise, nestling in a wreath of convolvuli and rosebuds, had been wont to stir in me a most enthusiastic sense of admiration; and which plate I had often petitioned to be allowed to take in my hand in order to examine it more closely, but had always hitherto been deemed unworthy of such a privilege.

4  He picked out another nestling from the young brood, and again sailed away.