Sentence examples for make a nest from inspiring English sources

"make a nest" is a correct and commonly used phrase in written English.
It can be used when describing the action of an animal, bird, or insect creating a place to live, lay eggs, and raise young. It can also be used figuratively to describe someone creating a comfortable and cozy space for themselves or for others. Example: The birds worked together to make a nest in the tree outside our window. Figurative example: After a long day at work, I like to come home and make a nest on the couch with my favorite blanket and a good book.

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Nobody ever said, "Mummy's not feeling great, shall we make a nest and watch a film?" I mean, what?

His name was all the wordplay he had given Caesar, who had been smoking on the bottom bunk throughout Rainey's efforts to make a nest.

"I think about what that eagle is doing; if she's safe, and whether she can find food and make a nest.

Orang-utans make a nest every day—"quite comfortable ones, with a blanket woven from branches", explains Mr Wich so orang-utan populations can be guessed from nest numbers.

Elliot proceeds to turn his room into an ice-skating rink, make a nest in the freezer, and invest in ice cubes and Goldfish crackers to keep his new friend happy.

Where Klee was a Romantic, though, who could think angels and devils, Mr. Tuttle is a kind of Elysian adept who builds cosmic structures from throwaway details, the way birds make a nest.

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She takes down a few reams of burlap and makes a nest in the living room.

Nikolai's is particularly impressive – as if a bird made a nest on his head.

Chickadees and then bluebirds brought in moss and grass for use in making a nest.

I think if you write about, say, a bird making a nest you're writing about a construction worker.

And in March, Gareth Wynne Fitzpatrick, an English artist, made a nest as birds do, sort of.

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