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Meanings of make nests in English

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Usage of make nests in English
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They are taught to make nests, find the right foods and climb trees.
Reuters
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Birds make nests, humans make buildings -and sculptures to sit in them.
The Guardian
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Birds hadn't troubled to make nests, nor rabbits to dig warrens.
Christmas Outside of Eden
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Pickover used some of them to make nests to carefully cushion the mines, just in case.
Red Planet Blues
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Trilobites make nests in bones and dissolving iron.
The Scar
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If he didn't hide them, his mouse supplicants would take them away to make nests in.
Sister Mine
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Usually take an old crow's or woodpecker's nest for their own use-rarely make nests for themselves.
Stories of Birds
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Cuckoo bumblebees have no workers, don't make nests and lay eggs in the nest of a bumblebee.
The Irish Times
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Hedgehogs like hedges and heaps of decaying vegetation where they can hibernate and make nests to rear young.
The Irish Times
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It would make nests of weed in the crevices of the coral, or build strongholds of coral masonry.
Star Maker
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Fairy terns do not make nests.
Radio NZ
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Where will birds make nests?
Solomon's oak: a novel
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As birds make nests out of everything, so children make a doll out of anything which comes to hand.
Les Misérables
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There she told them to make nests of moss, and advised each to mark well his or her own.
St. Nicholas Magazine for Boys and Girls, Vol. 5, No. 06, April ...
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We'll make nests, too, children, that will suggest to the biddies that they should proceed at once to business.
Driven Back to Eden
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The Fossorial Hymenoptera are a group of Wasp-like Insects, which burrow in sandy soil to make nests for their young.
The Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection / Or, the Pr...
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