nest

Example Sentences

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You see his demands, from where I’m sitting, as entitlement because he fails to understand that your nest egg did not come easy.

From MarketWatch • Apr. 6, 2026

Video footage posted by the nonprofit shows a close-up of the cracked shell in the nest as winds blow and an eagle stands guard.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 5, 2026

Another nest was found inside a hutia vertebra, in the space that once housed the spinal cord.

From Science Daily • Apr. 3, 2026

State pensions in most of Europe remain more generous than U.S. social security, reducing the incentive to build nest eggs in the market.

From Barron's • Mar. 30, 2026

It seemed the pixies had nested in my chimney, and now that they were waking, the whole cottage had become one big, swarming pixie nest.

From "Rump: The (Fairly) True Story of Rumpelstilskin" by Liesl Shurtliff