Denned

Putnam's job was to make sure that the manmade island and all manmade products -- foods, waste, fuels, trash -- were secured from the federally-protected animal, which had denned there sometime in late October to give birth, unbeknown to wildlife officials or work crews. ❋ AlaskaDispatch.com (2011)

The owner finally retrieved his dog unharmed, but only after the bear was tranquilized with a dart gun and the dog had then been denned for two days longer than it intended … ❋ Unknown (2009)

Likewise Michael came to know what Harley Kennan never did know and always denied as existing on his ranch -- the one rocky outcrop, in the dense heart of the mountain forest, where a score of rattlesnakes denned through the winters and warmed themselves in the sun. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Nob Hill arose, like any medieval castle, from the mess and ruck of common life that denned and laired at its base. ❋ Unknown (2010)

The music summoned his magic; the intent interpreted it; the words denned it, approximately. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Even so, in all the life that grew and flew and fought and died on the most fertile globe in the heavens, there was not a single creature that thought-not in the manner in which thought is usually and comfortably denned. ❋ Frederick Barthelme (2010)

I go to the Rockies most years, and yes, there are bears out unless weather has been terrible and they denned up. ❋ Unknown (2008)

Right now they're denned up, and as long as you're not stupid enough to put your hand into a hole in the ground, no worries. ❋ E_moon60 (2010)

As part of a study Tabor was involved with in 2004, he and his coworkers tagged seven bears to find out where they denned, how healthy they were, and how many cubs they had. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Those rattlesnakes not yet denned will be too sluggish to matter. ❋ Thomas McGuane (2009)

These wolves have followed us home, denned near homes, attacked near childeren, dogs have intercepted wolves heading to childeren on private land, entered hunting camps, followed people on horse back, circled childeren..we you are getting the picture. ❋ Unknown (2007)

Two distant suns carved out a sphere of pale air from this end­less firmament, a volume denned by thousands upon thousands of clouds in all shapes and sizes, most of them tinged with dusk colors of rose and amber. ❋ Unknown (2006)

The face lost its clarity, became less denned, and then the shape of it gradually dispersed. ❋ Harris, Charlaine (2006)

There hasn't been any more coverage of efforts to catch him, and as temperatures have cooled he is likely denned up somewhere in torpor. ❋ Unknown (2005)

Instinct, as it turns out, isn't denned as a trait you're born with, but one that develops as a parent and child bond. ❋ Picoult, Jodi, 1966- (2005)

And as for the help of heat, it is for this reason that heat has been denned to be ❋ Unknown (2005)

FOURTEEN Washington, D.C. Monday, 2: 59 p.m. To most outsiders, the C.pitol and the office buildings that serviced it denned the phrase corridors of power. ❋ Clancy, Tom, 1947- (2004)

The black cloud, blending in the absence of any wind with the mountains, moved slowly onwards, its curved edges sharply denned against the deep starry sky. ❋ Unknown (2003)

Den Den was [spotted] in Marianos buying excessive amounts of monster, [bewildering] all of the woman in [the establishment]. ❋ Yeti858 (2018)

[DAMNNNN] that [den dens] [is the shit] ❋ Flaganginaers (2012)

The Den is where its at, there is no [place] [like it] ❋ Jloc (2006)

He proceeded to his den where he [sat] and [read]. ❋ H4Inf (2003)

He was [hot], [den] ❋ Wellynz (2009)

Where have those two [gone]? Probably [denning] as [usual]. ❋ Dwayne Jamal Dante Lamar (2016)

...den he [sed] to hand [ova] [tha] money... ❋ H4Inf (2003)

[Oh Michael]! Mr [Denning] with these Roche you are [realing] spoiling us! ❋ Duke Of Dorset (2005)

Do you [know that] Den likes [Kazuha] [mains]? ❋ Bunyoyo (2021)

[Ayye], [wanna] [come over] to my den?? ❋ Kiwibo (2019)