How to Use nest egg in a Sentence

nest egg

noun

• They built up a nest egg for their son's college education.
• The sale would be his chance to cash in his Mobil stock and leave with a seven‐figure nest egg.
  — Josh Noel, chicagotribune.com, 9 May 2018
• That’s the simplest way to restore your nest egg and get back to growth.
  — Catherine Brock, Forbes, 7 Mar. 2023
• Now that they're married, the two have quite the nest egg between them.
  — Caroline Picard, Good Housekeeping, 16 Apr. 2019
• The pawn shop was supposed to provide a nest egg for Lex Hilliard.
  — Alex Prewitt, SI.com, 19 Sep. 2019
• My planner’s fee, as is common, is based on the size of my nest egg.
  — Glenn Ruffenach, WSJ, 12 Nov. 2021
• Even in the best of times, a college-tour road trip feels like gambling with your nest egg.
  — Christopher Reynolds, Los Angeles Times, 19 Apr. 2021
• That gives us a target of $1 million for your nest egg.
  — Glenn Ruffenach, WSJ, 10 Feb. 2019
• Our nest egg has not shown much growth over the last several years.
  — Liz Weston, oregonlive, 17 Sep. 2023
• Doing so will reduce your 2021 tax bill and add more to your nest egg.
  — Jeanne Sahadi, CNN, 16 Dec. 2021
• Spend some of your spare time deciding the best ways to create a nest egg for the future.
  — Tribune Content Agency, oregonlive.com, 29 July 2019
• The second step is to decide how much of your income and nest egg to keep in dollars.
  — Bob Carlson, Forbes, 20 Apr. 2023
• So, create a small nest egg to help out during those in-between times.
  — Essence, 18 Sep. 2019
• Money could have been up and down since 2018 but has likely been building up in your nest egg for the past year.
  — Kyle Thomas, Peoplemag, 14 Apr. 2024
• Our parents worked hard all their lives and left both my brother and me a pretty good nest egg.
  — Amy Dickinson, Detroit Free Press, 16 Oct. 2022
• Musk parked a big chunk of Tesla’s nest egg in the riskiest of risk assets, yet made nothing.
  — Shawn Tully, Fortune, 12 May 2022
• Click on this link, answer a few questions — and watch your nest egg vanish.
  — San Diego Union-Tribune, 25 Aug. 2019
• The stocks and mutual funds in these nest eggs are chosen based on their return to the investor.
  — Timothy Noah, Washington Post, 16 Mar. 2023
• Of course, part of the goal is to build that nest egg as quickly as possible to retire early.
  — Michael Taylor, ExpressNews.com, 18 Oct. 2019
• An Eagle couple trusted him for years to guard their nest egg.
  — Audrey Dutton, idahostatesman, 24 Apr. 2018
• Laffer’s advice was to be careful and not to risk blowing her nest egg.
  — John Detrixhe, Quartz, 30 Mar. 2021
• Plus, your property can become a nest egg as the mortgage is paid down.
  — Heidi Mitchell, Esquire, 15 Dec. 2017
• That reduces the number of years your nest egg will have to support you and gives your investments more time to grow.
  — Anne Tergesen, WSJ, 18 Mar. 2021
• The good news is that preparing for these costs will keep them from eating into your nest egg.
  — Chris Hogan and Lizz Schumer, Woman's Day, 7 Jan. 2016
• Meanwhile, Norma is rolling through their retirement nest egg to keep Ray in a place that can care for him.
  — Donald Bradley, kansascity, 22 Oct. 2017
• The fund itself is a sort of nest egg, seeded with oil money and grown through investments.
  — Becky Bohrer, Anchorage Daily News, 12 June 2019
• Nine months of pregnancy seemed like a small price to pay in return for a nest egg that would support the next phase of her career.
  — New York Times, 3 May 2022
• Chinese stocks may be part of your retirement nest egg.
  — New York Times, 23 July 2021
• With stock indexes smashing records, many savers with investments tied to the market have seen their nest eggs swell this year.
  — J.j. McCorvey, NBC News, 5 July 2024
• The report details what a substantial difference the first decade of savings can make in the total size of someone’s nest egg.
  — Byalicia Adamczyk, Fortune, 30 May 2024

Last Updated: 28 Oct 2024