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nestle

[nes-uhl] / ˈnɛs əl /


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"When the ball came to me, I just put the foot through it, saw it nestle in the top corner and the rest is history."

From BBC Jul. 26, 2026

So crank up the Victrola, press play on Spotify and nestle into your headphones.

From Salon Jun. 5, 2026

“You can nestle under a blanket and watch the storms on the mountains,” he said.

From The Wall Street Journal Apr. 12, 2026

Creating collages is almost a compulsion, a way for Jarmusch to escape from the world and nestle into self-reflection.

From Los Angeles Times Mar. 28, 2025

I nestle myself into the nook of the cool boulders and turn through the pages, impatient to find out what happens next in the story.

From "How to Disappear Completely" by Ali Standish

It nestles and entangles itself in for the long haul.

From The Wall Street Journal Apr. 21, 2026

The first comes, not surprisingly, from San Marino – the independent microstate that nestles inside north-central Italy.

From BBC May 9, 2025

A man at a party is allowed to hold a baby, which cries as soon as it nestles into his arms.

From New York Times Jun. 2, 2023

We are huddled around a couple of microphones in a window-less room, deep within the interior of MIT Media Lab, which neatly nestles into the modern urban-academic realm that is Cambridge Massachusetts.

From Salon May 20, 2023

It is an island that nestles like a suckling against the breast of Maine, but there are many of those.

From "Travels with Charley in Search of America" by John Steinbeck

There, she’d begun to plant her roots in an artistic community, spending most of the last year and some change nestled in with her new flock of bohemian neighbors.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 14, 2026

Firms including Texas Pacific Land, LandBridge and EagleRock sit on land empires nestled in the Permian Basin, which spans West Texas and New Mexico.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 11, 2026

For 30 years, a dead body known as "Green Boots" has been lying in the snow, nestled under an overhanging rock, not far from Mount Everest's summit.

From BBC Aug. 8, 2026

My earliest memories of slurping those warm, squiggly noodles are from sick days spent nestled under the sheets in my childhood bedroom.

From Salon Jul. 19, 2026

Her spices nestled in their tiny containers, and the lid of her dubba container shut and sealed.

From "The Marvellers" by Dhonielle Clayton

One unexpected finding was that warmer extremes were linked to heavier fledging weights during the nestling stage.

From Science Daily Mar. 12, 2026

At 72, Uncle Thing wakes up at dawn every day and weaves around his hilly farm to collect ripened durians, either dangling from trees or nestling on nets close to the ground.

From BBC Jan. 10, 2026

The study shows wildebeest frequently crisscross the Sand River and the areas surrounding the Ritz-Carlton, even though they avoid forested areas nestling the camp due to the risk of predators.

From The Wall Street Journal Nov. 20, 2025

Many years ago, her cat had escaped and came back with a hummingbird nestling.

From Salon Jan. 9, 2025

Years later Mrs. Huxley wrote to Etty, “Towards your mother I always had a sort of nestling feeling. More than any woman I ever knew, she comforted.”

From "Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith" by Deborah Heiligman




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