The bird built a nest in the tree to lay its eggs.

Meaning: The sentence describes a bird constructing a structure in a tree for the purpose of laying its eggs.

Choice of Words: Bird is a warm-blooded vertebrate animal that can fly, built means to construct or create something, nest is a structure made by a bird for laying eggs and raising young, tree is a tall woody plant, lay means to put something down, and eggs are oval objects produced by female birds that contain a developing embryo.

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