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US
/ˈnɛsəɫd/
]
[ UK /nˈɛsəld/ ]
[ UK /nˈɛsəld/ ]
ADJECTIVE
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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
How To Use nestled In A Sentence
- Kirkland is a lovely city nestled on Lake Washington, with views of the water, the Seattle skyline, and of course Mount Rainier, which is by far the area's most impressive and hopefully most dormant volcano. Archive 2007-10-01
- She kicked the covers to the foot of the bed, swapped her pillow for another, and nestled as close to the wall as she could.
- Close against them and overpeering their tops were hollyhocks and dahlias; against these stood at lesser height sweet peas, asters, zinnias, coreopsis and others of like stature; in front of these were poppies for summer, marigolds for autumn; beneath these again were verbenas, candytuft -- all this is sketched from memory, and I recall the winsome effect rather than species and names; and still below nestled portulaca and periwinkle. The Amateur Garden
- Nestled in terra cotta, thick, gutsy prosciutto barely girdles hunks of luxuriantly gooey mozzarella bocconcini that have been roasted into a delicious taffy, the perfect bonbon to chomp on during a film by the Taviani brothers.
- It is a wildly ambitious essay that has been anthologized elsewhere, but it resonates here more than ever, finally nestled among the other work that occasioned it.
- Silent Grove is the campground & again very pretty nestled amongst the boab and gum trees. TravelPod.com TravelStream™ — Recent Entries at TravelPod.com
- The name Interlaken meant “between the lakes” and it was exactly that, nestled between sparkling Lake Thun and Lake Brienz. The Lions of Lucerne
- Two onions, a blueberry, a sesame seed, and two egg bagels, still hot, lay nestled at the bottom.
- Our home is at the southwestern tip of the valley, nestled among the lace-lichen laden oaks, bay laurel, mountain mahogany, ceanothus and toyon which typify this classically central coast California oak woodland.
- Numerous skeletons of young calves have also been unearthed, many of them nestled next to adult females, no doubt their mothers.