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
  • While working longer is among the best ways to shore up one’s nest egg, the plan may backfire, according to retirement experts.
    Greg Iacurci, CNBC, 17 Sep. 2024
  • Preparing for volatile times by fortifying a reliable structure helps to prevent your nest egg from cracking when the world shakes.
    Wes Moss, Forbes, 30 Sep. 2024

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