Crossword-Solution: NESTING 7 letters, 20 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 8

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Instinctive behavior for a mother-to-be 1 answer
placing inside a larger object 1 answer
Up-a-tree activity 1 answer
Up a tree, perhaps 1 answer
Springtime activity 1 answer
Spring activity in the avian world. 1 answer
Making a cozy home 1 answer
Like stored Russian dolls 1 answer
Like some birds or dolls 1 answer
Laying laying foundations 1 answer
Fledgling's delight 1 answer
Fitting snugly. 1 answer
Fitting one within another 1 answer
Fitting one inside the other 1 answer
Building a tree house? 1 answer
Avine activity 1 answer
Avian activity 1 answer
At home, as a hoopoe 1 answer
nidification 2 answers
Fitting tightly 2 answers
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
EARTE
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with NESTING (5)

Inclusions within inclusions keep their `>' leaders, so the `nesting level' of a quotation is visually apparent.
The Jargon File, Version 2.9.10, 01 Jul 1992 Various 1992
Olston; “you don’t think he’s going to raid their nest?” “What do you think yourself?” asked Clovis; “the only pair of rough-legged buzzards known to breed in this country are nesting in your woods.
Beasts and Super-Beasts Saki 2011
She wore one of the voluminous black hoods which the Venetian ladies affected, and under its projecting eaves her face spied out at him as sweet as a nesting bird.
The Early Short Fiction of Edith Wharton, Part 2 (of 10) Edith Wharton 1995
They prefer nesting-places in the open, and near human habitations.” After carefully scrutinizing several of the trees, we at last saw one that seemed to fill the bill.
Good Stories For Great Holidays Frances Jenkins Olcott 1995
The quick increase of suns at the end of spring sometimes overtakes birds in their nesting and effects a reversal of the ordinary manner of incubation.
The Land of Little Rain Mary Austin 2008

Quotes with NESTING (3)

It's no accident, I think, that tennis uses the language of life. Advantage, service, fault, break, love, the basic elements of tennis are those of everyday existence, because every match is a life in miniature. Even the structure of tennis, the way the pieces fit inside one another like Russian nesting dolls, mimics the structure of our days. Points become games become sets become tournaments, and it's all so tightly connected that any point can become the turning point. It …
Andre Agassi Open
Let me say right here, if I haven't made it clear, that I have seen as many pale, naked old-man parts in the last twenty-four hours to bruise my delicate psyche for a lifetime, so don't be surprised if you someday find me wandering the moors at midnight, a crazed look in my eye, babbling about albino Tater Tots nesting in Brillo pads and being pursued by sagging man ass, because that shit can happen when you've been traumatized.
Christopher Moore You Suck
He took a hairpin out of my untidy hair (by now my complicated arrangement of ringlets must have looked as if a couple of birds had been nesting there); he took a strand of it and wound it around his finger. With his other hand he began stroking my face, and then he bent down and kissed me again, this time very cautiously. I closed my eyes - and the same thing happened as before: my brain suffered that delicious break in transmission.
Kerstin Gier Ruby Red
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Appears in: Boston Globe, Chronicle, LAT, Newsday, NY Sun, NYT, WP, WSJ.

Used 19 times in crossword archives (1952–2022).