How to Use nester in a Sentence

nester

noun

• With three kids in college, Moss and his wife, Kris, are empty-nesters.
  — Naseem S. Miller, OrlandoSentinel.com, 5 June 2018
• No palm trees swayed in their empty-nester dreams, anyway.
  — Melody Warnick, Woman's Day, 30 May 2018
• 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
• 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 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
• Now an empty-nester, Smyth is finally ready to rock again.
  — Jeff Nelson, PEOPLE.com, 8 Oct. 2020
• 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
• After the briefest of pauses, the Dunphy porch light flips back on, a sweet nod to Phil's sage prescription for empty-nesters.
  — Bill Keveney, USA TODAY, 9 Apr. 2020
• 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
• 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
• Noles said at least a portion of the new townhouses will be marketed to empty-nesters.
  — Darrell Clem, Detroit Free Press, 9 May 2017
• Dear Amy: My wife and I, who have been married 40 years and have raised eight kids, live in Minnesota and are now happy empty-nesters.
  — Amy Dickinson, The Denver Post, 10 Sep. 2019
• First was the availability of houses put on the market by empty-nesters.
  — George Castle, chicagotribune.com, 9 Sep. 2019
• But a surprising number of other birds are ground nesters.
  — Joan Morris, The Mercury News, 13 Mar. 2017
• All three species that are major nesters in Florida did pretty well.
  — David Fleshler, Sun-Sentinel.com, 31 Oct. 2017
• This also is a good time to listen for owls after dark, like the great horned owl, an early nester that may be duet hooting as part of its courtship.
  — Richard Chin, Star Tribune, 20 Dec. 2020
• At lunch, Smith-Cameron jokes about being an empty-nester now that her daughter, 19, is off at college in Scotland.
  — Meredith Blake Staff Writer, Los Angeles Times, 15 Oct. 2021
• An empty-nester, Gretzky moved to Florida to be close to his three grandchildren who live there.
  — Chris Bumbaca, USA TODAY, 31 May 2022
• Maybe Obama opened up about his impending sadness over when Sasha goes off to college and he and Michelle are left to cope as empty nesters.
  — Martha Ross, The Mercury News, 1 June 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
• Learning about the colorful adventures of the girls at the station prompts Sookie, a recent empty-nester, to shake-up her own life.
  — Caroline McKenzie, Southern Living, 11 July 2017
• Plans are chugging along to build town homes and apartments geared toward millennials and empty-nesters near the Iron Horse station, one of the stops along the 27-mile Tex Rail line.
  — Elizabeth Campbell, star-telegram, 15 June 2018
• The builder also is selling to empty nesters who are downsizing, DePlaza said.
  — Paul Owers, Sun-Sentinel.com, 28 Apr. 2017
• The new plan, which kicks in August 9, really is targeted at empty nesters—a third person in a household would have to pay full price.
  — Edward C. Baig, USA TODAY, 7 Aug. 2017
• Steve Daniels’ new neighborhood screams paradise for an empty-nester.
  — J. Brady McCollough, latimes.com, 11 June 2018
• And some other nesters have their young adopted by more experienced pairs.
  — Paul A. Smith, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 9 June 2018
• Now an empty-nester, Chesshir devotes most of his spare time to training and competing with his Labrador retrievers.
  — Rachel O'Neal, Arkansas Online, 27 Sep. 2020
• Baby Boomers who have become empty-nesters and Millennials who want to buy instead of rent are driving the trend.
  — Catherine Reagor, azcentral, 14 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

Last Updated: 27 Jun 2024