Nestling is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for NESTLING in dictionary:

VERB:
• settle or lie comfortably within or against something
• (of a place) be situated in a half-hidden or sheltered position
NOUN:
• a young bird
• bird too young to leave the nest
• A young bird which has not abandoned the nest.
• A nest; a receptacle.
• young bird not yet fledged
• a young person of either sex
ADJECTIVE:
• Newly hatched; being yet in the nest.
OTHER DEFINITIONS:
• to lie snugly

Words related to NESTLING

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Words that contain NESTLING

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How to use NESTLING in a sentence

• The attempt of a nestling bird to sing has been compared to the endeavour of a child to talk.
• She lay very close to him, nestling under his coat and fell to licking his face, but never taking her eyes from his.
• Away to the right, nestling among the trees, stands a pretty little village and castle, and as we passed on, St.
• Along the river bank, nestling under the hanging wood, are rows of old stone cottages, with gables warped a little on one side.
• Below lies the whole length of Windermere, from the white houses of Clappersgate, nestling under Loughrigg at the head, to the Beacon at the foot.
• Those of them that march in large bodies kill nestling birds, and at once destroy any big animal unable to get out of their way.
• None had heeded that silent appeal, though many had marked the pallor of her girlish face, and the extreme beauty of the baby features nestling in her bosom.
• The leaders are hugging the wall like nestling doves.
• Ishmael was alarmed, embarrassed, even irritated, yet somehow she was nestling against him and his arms were holding her while he consoled her.
• Their hearts, left unprotected by their out-opened arms, demanded shelter, and found it in nestling on each other.
• So he lined his swinging-bed with such dried grasses as he could find, and nestling in it tried to sleep.
• Hugh was content to sit for hours with the delicate child nestling in his arm, her hand lying passive and cool in his.
• Mihiel and Banoncour nestling upon the green landscape.
• We passed a straw-thatched cottage nestling amid a group of bushes and poplars.
• Ives was the parson, lay about two miles beyond Wancote, in a low valley nestling under a great wave of the downs.
• Nestling behind the hill it cast a black rectangular shadow upon the trampled sand of the redoubt.
• That small village must in other times have been a pretty place, nestling with its gardens by the river under the hill.
• The villages with their blue-grey houses and thatched roofs nestling among the groves of bamboos looked like chicklets sheltering under the outstretched wings of the mother hen.
• Away to the right we could see the spires of a church in a little village nestling among the trees.
• To watch the tiny sleeping babe, Just nestling in her breast, To shield it with her mother-love, And guard it in its rest.
• Directly as they started, she made a little involuntary nestling motion toward the young man at her side.
• His stronghold was situated on the banks of the Hudson, in one of those green, sheltered, fertile nooks in which the Dutch farmers are so fond of nestling.
• With peace nestling in my bosom, I went down to my first supper in the new boarding-house.
• He glanced occasionally toward the shore and up to the little cottage nestling among the trees.

Similar words containing NESTL without suffix ing

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