nestling in English

noun
1
a bird that is too young to leave its nest.
It's the first study to show that birds have learned to recognize and reject cuckoo nestlings .
verb
1
settle or lie comfortably within or against something.
the baby deer nestled in her arms

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1. No smugglers cottages nestling against romantic cliffs.

2. She sat back, nestling against his chest.

3. Faber passed through Crawford , nestling in green hills.

4. I guessed they had a nestling.

5. 13 She sat back, nestling against his chest.

6. Nearby, nestling in the hills, was the children's home.

7. I saw a cottage nestling in the woods.

8. Bergerac is a charming city, nestling along the banks of the Dordogne

9. Nestling between the two spools was a tiny plastic packet, smaller than a thumbnail.

10. Bergerac is a charming city, nestling along the banks of the Dordogne

11. A spy-fly could be nestling in these furry walls.

12. The top shelf is where Gay Times is traditionally to be found, nestling coyly next to Penthouse.

13. Synonyms for Avifauna include bird, birdie, fowl, songbird, warbler, chick, fledgling, passerine, raptor and nestling

14. Egg size does not influence nestling mortality, but chicks from large eggs grow faster.

15. The mare lay in the straw with the newborn foal nestling into her side.

16. The Cox Island male and female, both resident from 1990 to 1994, produced very poorly: nil (1990); one live and one dead nestling plus an addled egg (1991); one nestling plus two addled eggs (1992); nil (1993); and two addled eggs (1994).

17. There, nestling on a further bed of tissue-paper, were five glass Christmas tree decorations.

18. His hard thighs brushed hers as he shifted suddenly, picking up the telephone nestling in the armrest.

19. It was a two-storey white house nestling just within the last gentle curve up to the headland.

20. When nestlings were 10 days old, parental feeding rates and nestling begging intensity were measured with tape recorders.

21. Any cuckoo nestling that lost its hold, even momentarily, over its host would have died as a result.

22. San Mamete is a tiny village nestling prettily amidst unspoilt countryside - between lush foothills and the glistening lake.

23. Limone is a very old village nestling at the foot of the cliffs on the lake's western shore.

24. There are just three houses there; three seventeenth-century stone-built farmhouses nestling comfortably in the shelter of a little valley.

25. 28 San Mamete is a tiny village nestling prettily amidst unspoilt countryside - between lush foothills and the glistening lake.

26. Today's shoppers will discover sensitively-restored shopping quarters shouldering friendly markets, and pavement cafes nestling alongside high-street names.

27. 9 The top shelf is where Gay Times is traditionally to be found,(www.Sentencedict.com) nestling coyly next to Penthouse.

28. Bhutan is a tiny and remote kingdom nestling in the Himalayas between its powerful neighbours, India and China

29. As he drew closer he counted four sleeping on the water; necks curled back, heads nestling under wings.

30. 'Brazen Hussy' is the most cheerful of all the "cultivated" Celandines , with vivid yellow flowers nestling among bronze leaves.

31. Losses by addled eggs and nestling mortality differ with the available amount of food in relation to the vole-cycles.

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33. Nestling in the hillside in the grounds of the Estate are some of the most exclusive holiday homes in the world.

34. When I returned later, the nestling had become a Branchling, clumsily fly-hopping completely out and onto the same branch the nest was affixed to

35. A nestling Derbyan parrot (Psittacula derbiana) was presented with unusual subcutaneous swellings of the thigh regions, and poor growth.Histological examination revealed Actinomycetous bacteria associated with multifocal systemic granulomas

36. Considered by many as the most typical algarvean village, Alte is a small village of white-washed houses nestling amidst trees and mountains, the image of old Algarve

37. The diet of nestling linnets (Acanthis cannabina) living on a heathland in Brittany (France) was studied by faecal pellet analysis during the 1982 and 1983 breeding seasons.

38. Altricial birds may vary their relative reproductive investment at the egg versus nestling stages as an adaptive strategy to deal with variable or unpredictable food availability between stages.

39. 27 The train sped on; the broad fields with their blue-green border trees,[www.Sentencedict.com] and the villages nestling in their shade flew past in a stream of pictures which melted away like a flood of mirages.

40. Never squawk alone She and her colleagues fed chicks only when they Begged at a certain instensity, and the nestling house sparrows needed only a few hours to find the begging levels that got them the most goodies.

41. Nestling in a natural casket where pine forests rub shoulders with ochre and white rocks, the vineyards on the plains and terraces that stretch down to the Mediterranean sea, Cassis is protected by the two monuments of nature that are Cap Canaille(tallest coastal cliff in Europe) glowing red when the Mistral blows, and the white limestone Calanques.