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Example sentences from the Web for nestingThe birds have returned to the beach for their annual nesting—and the uncommon people never left. Six Months After Sandy, the Rockaway Story Continues|Michael Daly|April 29, 2013|DAILY BEAST In the Cavour high school in central Rome, mice run through the halls, nibbling on open wiring and nesting in the lockers. In Italy, Angry Students Occupy Schools|Barbie Latza Nadeau|November 22, 2012|DAILY BEAST Durnford found it nesting at Tombo Point, sixty miles south of the Chupat river. Argentine Ornithology, Volume II (of 2)|P. L. Sclater Does he receive his critiques from Eaton or Harrow—based on the experience of a week's birds'-nesting and its consequences? Modern Painters Volume I (of V)|John Ruskin
While this nesting was going on I could hear five different birds at once either in the garden or from any of the windows. Nature Near London|Richard Jefferies It is a fresh water fowl, and exclusively so in the selection of its nesting haunts. Birds, Illustrated by Color Photography [July 1897]|Various They breed abundantly on the marshes of northern Alaska and Greenland, nesting the same as others of the species. The Bird Book|Chester A. Reed
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nounthe tendency to arrange one's immediate surroundings, such as a work station, to create a place where one feels secure, comfortable, or in control Words nearby nestingnest, NESTA, nest box, nested, nest egg, nesting, nesting table, nestle, nestling, nest of drawers, Nestor Collins English Dictionary - Complete & Unabridged 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012 Words related to nestingreside, locate, settle, crash, occupy, abide, hover, go on, linger, stop, live, continue, endure, stand, persist, last, prevail, survive, wait, lie |