Tikibu: pronunciation dictionary with use examples

Word: nestled
IPA transcription: [n'ɛsəld]
adverb meaning of the word
  • Synonyms: nestled, snuggled
    Meaning: drawn or pressed close to someone or something for or as if for affection or protection; "saw a number of small houses nestled against the hillside"; "like a baby snuggled in its mother's arms"
Usage examples
  • She nestled closer to him and hid her face on his breast.
  • Then Yuki Chan nestled close, and gave little pats of love and tried to listen.
  • Then she nestled them against her warm breast, and turned adoring eyes toward the Cardinal.
  • My Robert--who set my egg to hatch--in the bosom of whose Norfolk raiment I have nestled so often and so pleasantly!
  • Prairie chickens nestled along the single-file trail. Deer bounded from the poplar thickets and shy coyotes barked all night in the offing.
  • She nestled down beneath it and her lips smiled very prettily, and she uttered a little purring murmur of content; but this she did in her sleep.
  • The Cardinal went to the top rail and feasted on the sweet grains of corn until his craw was full, and then nestled in the sumac and went to sleep.
  • Then, hoping to forget his woes in sleep, he nestled under the low-growing branches of the pine, and lay blinking drowsily at the twilight world outside.