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Example sentences for "nestling"

Lexicographically close words:
nesthai; nesting; nestle; nestled; nestles; nestlings; nests; net; netai; nete
  1. How often she had slipped into his motor after him, sliding along the shiny leather, nestling happily against him, explaining that there was no draught, that the rain was not coming in, that her feet were as warm as toast.

  2. Putting his arms tight round her he held her close to him, her cold wet face nestling in his neck.

  3. Darling," he murmured, nestling his face in her neck, "what nonsense you talk.

  4. It refused even weeping; and after a few minutes, nestling down as close to him as she could get, she laid one arm and her head upon his breast and went to sleep too.

  5. The flood-gates burst then, and her heart poured itself out, her head alternately nestling in his neck and raised up to kiss his face, and her arms straining him with nervous eagerness.

  6. I'm tired," she said, nestling her head more heavily on his breast.

  7. Nor this aint, neither," she murmured, nestling her head in his bosom.

  8. Here a father, heart-sick and prostrate with disease, seeks to keep warm his three ragged children, nestling about him.

  9. A purple belt was stretching across the distant hills, and a dark-blue tint was nestling under the eaves.

  10. At that angle there stands a little group of cottages deliciously cool in their white-wash, nestling together under the heavy purple crag from which the waters of a ghyll fall into a deep basin that reaches to their walls.

  11. I saw a mother leaning above an empty crib, whose dainty pillow no nestling head should ever press again.

  12. I can get used to the hopeless blank That greets my waking eyes, As they meet the sight of the empty crib Where no little nestling lies.

  13. There is not a covert in all the awakening woods that has not a little nestling head hidden behind the dead leaves.

  14. That for any throne in the whole world I would exchange this easy-chair where she has sat nestling up to me?

  15. Alexander drew his little nestling wife closer to him.

  16. Zeneida, nestling up to him, put her arms about him.

  17. The king stooped down to the child and kissed his golden hair, and then pressed his little daughter, who was nestling up to him, to his heart.

  18. Hermit Lake--a little pool nestling underneath a precipice--demands a word.

  19. Nestling beneath the wings of ancient Night, Whose horrors seemed to smile in shadowing thee.

  20. Tell me all about it," Elma cried, nestling close to her new friend with a wild burst of relief.

  21. Yes," Elma answered, nestling close and looking red as a rose.

  22. On the latter date a nest containing one nestling and one unhatched egg was found near Mount Santa Rosa.

  23. They did not enter the hollow but placed food in the protruding beaks of the young; the parents and nestling both were exceedingly noisy throughout most of the feeding period.

  24. A nestling in post natal molt, just beginning to fly, was taken on July 6.

  25. These nests were 15 to 20 feet above the ground; most of them contained one or two nestling birds.

  26. I had an idea that we should pass some fine country houses and see a number of pretty little nestling villages.

  27. And then my head was nestling down into his neck, and instead of being wretched I was perfectly happy.

  28. The problem was decidedly more difficult to me when the birds had their homes on the extensive table-lands farther inland; here it will depend on luck to meet with a couple of nestling sanderlings.

  29. A nestling 7 days old shows the remiges about one-third grown, while the body is still all downy.

  30. As these "stone isles" are most restricted in size, I could without special difficulty realize the existence of the birds here, and I found several nestling sanderlings on such places.

  31. But there was Lucy's little hand, so clinging, so understanding, nestling in his.

  32. If she happened to wake up early, she would unfasten the cage, and then the weasel would come into her bed, and, nestling up to her, go to sleep again.

  33. Often the bird's labours have to begin, especially in orchards, which are favourite nesting places with them, with having to turn out swarms of insects, nestling comfortably between the bark and the tree.

  34. Nestling under gray rocks, on the edge of the celery garden, embowered in forest trees, is the vine-covered cabin, Slabsides.

  35. Slabsides, but who, at nightfall, while nestling in the author's arms, seemed suddenly to realize that this rustic house was very different from anything he had seen before.

  36. Show me some more queer things," she pleaded, nestling to his side.

  37. Here and there a gap in the hawthorn hedge disclosed a glimpse of red-tiled roof and farm stack--and nestling among the trees of the park the chimneys of the Hall.

  38. There was a small house nestling under a clump of trees, and on the opposite side of a roadway a shed at the corner of a field.

  39. Andre told us that before they left he knew a nestling was on its way; the slender form, like a willow shoot, as he expressed it, was rounder, and the face of the girl was the face of a tender doe.

  40. Eventually they rounded a bluff on to a cabin nestling at the mouth of a dark valley.

  41. The mere sight of the turnings to Whitefriars would rouse the evil spirit nestling in Sanquhar's heart.


  42. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "nestling" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    apprentice; baby; beginner; bird; calf; callow; caressing; catechumen; chick; colt; cub; dalliance; dewy; dogie; dove; eagle; entrant; evergreen; fawn; firsthand; fledgling; foal; fondling; fowl; fresh; freshman; green; greenhorn; greeny; immature; infant; intact; kid; kitten; lamb; learner; maiden; maidenly; migrant; neophyte; nestling; new; newcomer; novice; original; owl; peacock; petting; pigeon; piglet; pristine; probationer; pullet; pup; puppy; raw; recruit; rookie; squab; swan; tadpole; tenderfoot; trainee; tyro; unbeaten; undeveloped; unfledged; untouched; untried; untrodden; unused; vernal; virgin; virginal; warbler; waterfowl; whelp; young