Example sentences for: nesting

How can you use “nesting” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • On the other hand, listening to the banter between gaggles of Glaswegians at, say, their Barras market on any morning of the year is like listening to the discordant yakking of jackdaws around derelict tenement chimneys in the nesting season.

  • The reason is that OUP have cleaved to their favourite structural approach to the listing of compounds, phrases, and hyphenated words by nesting them beneath the “main” word.

  • In 1961, a small colony of Bermuda petrels was discovered to be nesting on Nonsuch, and it has remained a sanctuary for the birds since that time.

  • (These conspiracies are stacking up like Russian nesting dolls: Right-wingers advance conspiracy theories about Whitewater; the administration shoots back with a conspiracy theory about the right-wingers' conspiracy theories; now the Journal counters with a conspiracy theory about the administration's conspiracy theory about right-wingers' conspiracy theories.

  • Well, A Moment on the Earth begins by describing wild falcons nesting on a Manhattan skyscraper as a symbol of hope for the environment.


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