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How to use nest in a sentence

40 example sentences · noun, verb

Nest means a structure built by a bird as a place to incubate eggs and rear young. Example: “That nightclub is a nest of strange people!”

Examples of nest by meaning

nounA hideout for bad people to frequent or haunt; a den.

  • a nest of thieves
  • That nightclub is a nest of strange people!

nounA home that a child or young adult shares with a parent or guardian.

  • I am aspiring to leave the nest.

nounA fixed number of cards in some bidding games awarded to the highest bidder allowing him to exchange any or all with...

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

nounA fortified position for a weapon.

  • a machine gun nest

nounA structure consisting of nested structures, such as nested loops or nested subroutine calls.

  • Subroutine 4 cannot jump out of the subroutine nest in one step.1981, Donnamaie E. White, Bit-Slice Design: Controllers and ALU's, Garland STPM Press, →ISBN, page 49
  • Our analysis to this point has assumed that in a loop nest, we are only parallelizing a single loop.1993 August, Bwolen Yang et al., "Do&Merge: Integrating Parallel Loops and Reductions", in Languages and Compilers for Parallel Computing...

verbTo settle into a home.

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

verbTo successively neatly fit inside another.

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

verbTo place one thing neatly inside another, and both inside yet another (and so on).

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

More sentences with nest

  • Birds fly their prey to their nest to feed it to their young.From the entry fly
  • The squirrel cheeked some nuts before heading back to its nest.From the entry cheek
  • The face of the cliff had many projections that were big enough for birds to nest on.From the entry projection
  • Over time, they accumulated a tidy nest egg and retired comfortably.From the entry nest egg
  • We poked a stick into the hornets' nest and ran like mad.From the entry like mad
  • Birds have a nest in a tree in the garden.From the entry tree
  • Sea turtles return to their natal beaches to nest.From the entry natal
  • Did dinosaurs lay their eggs in a nest?From the entry lay
  • The bird lines its nest with soft grass.From the entry line
  • Forest animals use leaf litter in a variety of ways, including as food, shelter, nesting material, bedding, and camouflage.From the entry litter
  • A pair of kites built a nest on the cliff.From the entry kite
  • A mouse had gnawed a hole through the kickboard to nest inside the organ; she refused to use the pedals nearby.From the entry kickboard
  • A pair of ospreys bred at a confidential nesting site in Co.2023 August 24, Mairead Sheehy, “'Like finding long-lost treasure': Ospreys breed in Ireland for first time in 200 years”, in Irish Examiner. From the entry osprey
  • SBOMs are lists of nested software components designed to enable supply chain transparency.2023, Rick Howard, Cybersecurity First Principles: A Reboot of Strategy and Tactics, John Wiley & Sons, →ISBN. From the entry SBOM
  • They call it the tinner, because it builds its nest in the mouth of the old mine-shafts.2022, John Coulson Tregarthen, Wild Life at the Land's End. From the entry dishwasher
  • The technology seeks to identify the birds' nests on the ground.2020 August 12, “Network News: Drones locate skylark nests”, in Rail, page 23. From the entry computer-aided design
  • Barron immediately retreated, and later sprayed hornet killer on the nest with his son.2019 June 30, Mariel Padilla, “Officials Warn of Wasp ‘Super Nests’ in Alabama”, in The New York Times. From the entry yellow jacket
  • I was coming into my own, leaving the nest, combining “old school” techniques with fresh ideas.2017, Mary Rannie, Gary Karr: Life on the G String, →ISBN. From the entry leave the nest
  • The nest cavity was situated on top of a dead beheaded awara palm tree Astrocaryum vulgare.2017, Olivier Claessens, Nyls de Pracontal, Johan Ingels, “The Owls of French Guiana”, in Paula L. Enríquez, editor, Neotropical Owls…. From the entry awara
  • At ten years old he started dabbling in oology, the collecting of eggs and nests.2016, Douglas Brinkley, “‘All that is in Me Goes back to the Hudson’”, in Rightful Heritage: Franklin D. Roosevelt and the Land of…. From the entry oology
  • Last, a possibility remains that some minds are physically or informationally recursively nested within other minds.2015, Roman V. Yampolskiy, Artificial Superintelligence: A Futuristic Approach, →ISBN, page 26. From the entry megamind
  • Histopathology examination—a nest of nonkeratinising stratified squamous epithelium; no keroid layer; basally connective tissue.2014, B Jurkiewicz, T Ząbkowski, “Nonkeratinised Squamous Metaplasia of the Urinary Bladder in Children: A Report of Case Experiences”, in…. From the entry keroid
  • A wasp nest cozened up in the corner of the far ceiling.2013, Rick Cox, Orphan Moon, page 180. From the entry cozen
  • The positioning of a control structure inside another control structure is called nesting e.g. nested-IF and nested-loop.2013 September 10, Sara Shahzad, Ibrar Ahmad, Mir Muhammd Suleman Sarwar, “Cyclomatic complexity: The nesting problem”, in Proceedings of…. From the entry nesting
  • And the reason they're called that is for the shape of their nest.2012 March 12, Katie Fuller, “This weekend... spot a bumbarrel”, in RSPB.org. From the entry bumbarrel
  • Gryphons are egg-layers, though it is the Keythong who guards the nest and warms the eggs.2012, Timothy Groves, “[The Creatures] Keythong”, in The Book of Creatures, →ISBN, page 115. From the entry keythong
  • It makes me think of wasps, chewing up wood and making their paper honeycomb nests.2011 January 25, Dave, “3d printing paper molds”, in Hive76 Discussion (Google Groups), archived from the original on 25 Oct 2025. From the entry 'pedia
  • A reproductive female inquiline gains access to a host nest and usually kills the resident queen.2010, P. J. Gullan, P. S. Cranston, The Insects: An Outline of Entomology, 4th edition, page 332. From the entry inquiline
  • Labyrinth fish are nest builders, and the males maintain the nest and incubate the eggs.2010, Beth Vanhorn, Robert W. Clark, Veterinary Assisting Fundamentals & Applications, page 2017. From the entry labyrinth fish
  • The egg dispersal mechanics of the bird's nest fungus are as amazing as its appearance.2010, Bill Russell, Field Guide to Wild Mushrooms of Pennsylvania and the Mid-Atlantic, page 107. From the entry bird's nest fungus

Meaning of nest

  1. noun A structure built by a bird as a place to incubate eggs and rear young.
  2. noun A place used by a mammal, fish, amphibian or insect, for depositing eggs and hatching young.
  3. noun A snug, comfortable, or cosy residence or job situation.

Full definition of nest

Questions about nest in a sentence

How do you use nest in a sentence?
Nest is used as a noun and verb. For example: “That nightclub is a nest of strange people!”
What is a short sentence with nest?
“a machine gun nest”
What does nest mean?
Nest means a structure built by a bird as a place to incubate eggs and rear young.

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Adapted from Wiktionary: nest (page history and authors) and the entries each sentence comes from. Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws chose the sentences, left out offensive ones and quotations older than 1900, and marked the word in each. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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