Place of refuge for animals.
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Examples for "nest"
Examples for "nest"
1Of course, the risk of stirring up a hornets' nest was considerable.
2The birds nest in northern Europe and fly south in the fall.
3The nest measured quite 18 inches in diameter and five in thickness.
4Place the shredded lettuce in the nest and then the prepared salmon.
5At sunset the last of the laggards is back in the nest.
1It is the problem with eyases taken from their nests too soon.
2We collected five C. cyphergaster nests from three different support plant species.
3Twenty-seven geese were the results of the shooting in the four nests.
4We've just found more efficient ways today of fouling our own nests.
5The nests were located in independent rocky niches but never in rookeries.
1The drey was eminently satisfactory, for, in the summer months, it was completely hidden.
2Rather than trapping grey squirrels, Bryant removes them by putting a cat-scented cloth in their drey.
3There he had built what he called a nest, but what humans, with greater nicety of diction, call a drey.
4So the young are now waiting. Could Shuttleworth locate the squirrel's drey and put its babies out of their misery?
5Effie thought about what Drey had said as she drifted into sleep.
6Ross Laidlaw first saved from May, then from Drey Wright seconds later.
7Drey called halt so softly it was like listening to a thought.
8Drey stood heavily and awkwardly, not once touching the guidestone for support.
9Drey built a fire, whistling as he struck sparks off his flint.
10With one single fluid movement, Drey pulled his hammer from its sling.
11Drey released his grip on Raif and pulled himself to his feet.
12Effie Sevrance, sister to Drey and Raif, daughter of Tem, glared back.
13Drey Sevrance was not the sort of man to commit treason lightly.
14Drey sucked in breath as he peeled the breastplate from his chest.
15He found them twenty minutes later, camped within the fringe of Drey Wood.
16Several yearmen, Drey included, began pummeling their fists against the bench.