Nest

//nɛst//

"Nest" in a Sentence (23 examples)

The hen was sitting on the eggs in the nest.

Put it back in the nest.

The bird is in its nest.

It is an ill bird that fouls its own nest.

Birds make a nest in the springtime to raise their babies in.

He is always busy feathering his own nest.

She carefully watched the bird in the nest.

Of those 2 or 3 were pushed out of the nest, and then fell down from the balcony as well.

Children all leave the nest one day.

"One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest" is one of my favorite movies.

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a nest of thieves

That nightclub is a nest of strange people!

Capt. Kirby and I concluding it might be of great Service to the Eaſt-India Company to deſtroy such a Neſt of Rogues, were ready to ſail for that Purpoſe […]

Miss Carpenter told me that a short time previously some Bow Street constables had been sent down to this place to ferret out a crime which had been committed there, and that they reported there was not in all London such a nest of wickedness as they had explored.

I am aspiring to leave the nest.

I was forced to change trumps when I found the ace, jack, and nine of diamonds in the nest.

a machine gun nest

Subroutine 4 cannot jump out of the subroutine nest in one step. Each return address must be popped from the stack in the order in which it was pushed onto the stack.

Our analysis to this point has assumed that in a loop nest, we are only parallelizing a single loop.

We loved the new house and were nesting there in two days!

I bought a set of nesting mixing bowls for my mother.

There would be much more room in the attic if you had nested all the empty boxes.

After the first heavy frost, when acorns were falling, I took a friend into partnership and went nesting.

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