Example Sentences

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She’d come across one of the first 100 Blüthner pianos ever built, but it had been abandoned and damaged to the point that squirrels were nesting on its strings.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 11, 2024

He often said that he was part Cherokee; the name Clu came from “clu-clu,” a Cherokee word for the birds, known in English as martins, that were nesting at the Gulager home.

From New York Times • Aug. 7, 2022

The agency hired a contractor to start dredging the shipping channel in Brunswick on May 28 while loggerhead sea turtles were nesting on nearby beaches.

From Washington Post • May 20, 2021

It's a natural characteristic of the penguins - they will always return to where they possibly were nesting.

From BBC • Jul. 15, 2019

Long-necked waterbirds flapped around the canoe as we pulled in, trying to pick off fish, and I realized they were nesting near our mooring post.

From "Flying Through Water" by Mamle Wolo