Sentence examples for a nit of from inspiring English sources

Not so Russians, who fire off important missives with gunpowder, as with "Respected Rodion Romanovich!" or "Dear Mrs. Raskolnikov!" The exclamation point is a flyspeck of formality, a nit of politesse.

There is also a "WTF" feature, which stands for "Words to Friends," although it could mean the more common acronym since it's a nit of a head-scratcher.

An uncovered strut was defined as having an NIT of 0 µm.

And there's the "Best Beard on the Island" competition with the first prize of a nit comb and the honour that goes with it.

And of course, an NIT offers the important advantage of providing resources to those who cannot work, for whom we currently provide benefits in many other ways that may be far more expensive administratively and in some cases imply higher implicit marginal tax rates than an NIT.

The chorus runs, "You'll need a nit comb to get rid of me", which he somehow carries off movingly.

At the risk of picking a nit, I think you let The New York Times off a bit too easily when you casually note that the paper is using search optimization techniques to maximize income and that they make this problem much more acute than it otherwise would be.

The study by Liu et al. evaluated different treatment strategies, which included the use of an NIT (FibroTest) in genotype 1-3 patients, but did not incorporate its diagnostic accuracy.

Working with one small section of hair — about the width of the nit comb — at a time, carefully comb through your entire head with a nit comb.

Traub writes that Holbrooke called our objections a nit-picking result of "feminist purism".

Furthermore, mean NIT of BP-SES was 110 µm and did not significantly differ from that of PP-EES (93 µm).