How to Use nester in a Sentence

nester

noun
  • Jon Bon Jovi’s an empty-nester.
    — Madeleine Marr, Miami Herald, 12 May 2026
  • The first tenant to move in was an empty-nester, Konover said.
    — Kenneth R. Gosselin, Hartford Courant, 3 May 2026
  • Roughly 75% of bee species are solitary ground nesters.
    — Ryan Brennan, Charlotte Observer, 23 Apr. 2026
  • An old larch makes a great choice for cavity nesters like woodpeckers.
    — Madison Dapcevich, Outside, 21 Sep. 2025
  • Many of the hosts are retirees, empty-nesters or people who work but have some time or space in their homes.
    — San Diego Union-Tribune, 19 Sep. 2019
  • Hayley Kiyoko is starting to feel like an empty-nester.
    — Leigh Nordstrom, Footwear News, 17 June 2026
  • The birds are late nesters and wait until mid-summer to start settling down for breeding.
    — Karl Schneider, The Indianapolis Star, 4 Mar. 2024
  • The first tenant already moved in is an empty-nester, Konover said.
    — Kenneth R. Gosselin, Hartford Courant, 9 Apr. 2026
  • With three kids in college, Moss and his wife, Kris, are empty-nesters.
    — Naseem S. Miller, OrlandoSentinel.com, 5 June 2018
  • The favorite house has six pairs of nesters while two other houses just a year old do not have any martins.
    — Calvin Finch, ExpressNews.com, 30 Apr. 2020
  • All three species that are major nesters in Florida did pretty well.
    — David Fleshler, Sun-Sentinel.com, 31 Oct. 2017
  • And some other nesters have their young adopted by more experienced pairs.
    — Paul A. Smith, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 9 June 2018
  • From new moms to empty-nesters, recipients will be warmed by this tender present.
    — Izzy Baskette, PEOPLE, 26 Nov. 2025
  • But the key is building homes that will sell for less than the older homes empty-nesters are leaving behind.
    — Aldo Svaldi, The Denver Post, 12 Feb. 2017
  • Earlier in the episode, Rock riffed on his empty-nester status.
    — Jen Juneau, PEOPLE.com, 22 July 2022
  • Noles said at least a portion of the new townhouses will be marketed to empty-nesters.
    — Darrell Clem, Detroit Free Press, 9 May 2017
  • Steve Daniels’ new neighborhood screams paradise for an empty-nester.
    — J. Brady McCollough, latimes.com, 11 June 2018
  • First was the availability of houses put on the market by empty-nesters.
    — George Castle, chicagotribune.com, 9 Sep. 2019
  • The tent does not come with a footprint, but even without that, the tent flooring stands up to dogs, even those that are aggressive nesters.
    — Meg Carney, Field & Stream, 27 Sep. 2023
  • And, indeed, many empty-nesters and people with more free time turn to games including golf and pickleball.
    — Allison Aubrey, NPR, 9 Feb. 2026
  • Now in his late 50s and an empty-nester, Murphy appears to be at least semi-retired.
    — Variety.com, The Mercury News, 12 Sep. 2019
  • Most of our fellow empty-nesters have already left our area, and our social life without children had disappeared.
    — Kathleen A. Hughes, WSJ, 22 Apr. 2018
  • In the wild, the chickadee is a secondary cavity nester, often adopting an old woodpecker nest.
    — Ernie Cowan, sandiegouniontribune.com, 15 Mar. 2018
  • Kyra Sedgwick plays an empty-nester who decides to inject herself back into her children’s lives.
    — Mike Hughes, Cincinnati.com, 27 May 2020
  • An empty-nester, Gretzky moved to Florida to be close to his three grandchildren who live there.
    — Chris Bumbaca, USA TODAY, 31 May 2022
  • The development would target aging empty-nesters who want to sell their homes but stay in the North Shore area.
    — Tom Daykin, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 6 July 2018
  • But when parents become empty-nesters the ease, interior space and utility of a minivan isn’t easy to give up.
    — Mark Maynard, sandiegouniontribune.com, 1 Sep. 2017
  • The builder also is selling to empty nesters who are downsizing, DePlaza said.
    — Paul Owers, Sun-Sentinel.com, 28 Apr. 2017
  • With the Kranks follows a newly empty-nester couple who tries to opt out of the holidays since their daughter would be absent.
    — Marisa Lascala, Good Housekeeping, 30 Sep. 2022
  • American goldfinches, July and August nesters, chased each other whistling their sweet chic-or-ee.
    — Taylor Piephoff, charlotteobserver, 6 June 2018

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