Sentence examples for being nipped from inspiring English sources

I feel like I'm being nipped at the heels".

Retaining a purchase on the teat while avoiding being nipped or kicked demands a lot of concentration.

Some groups of employees, such as the gas workers (some not on strike but taking job action) & civil servants (who recently held a one-day demonstration), are protesting against being nipped by the freeze in the very act of presenting their wage claims.

The International Shark Attack File site, giving figures for the United States, indicates that the danger of being bit by a shark is comparable to the risk of being attacked by an alligator -- and is much less likely than the chances of being nipped by a rabbit (although presumably this hurts less).

From Nathan's perspective, Indiana is an enchanting mess of contradictions, "my own lifelong imbroglio", a place where thumbs risk being nipped off by turtles, the Ku Klux Klan might invite you round for tea and where present requests to the town of Santa Claus always get an answer.

Eday is long from north to south but only just over 500 metres wide at the narrow neck of land between the Sands of Doomy and Bay of London and has been described as being "nipped at the waist".

They've been nipped in the bud.

"This needed to be nipped in the bud immediately".

"I think it should be nipped in the bud.

It needs to be nipped in the bud now.

The waist is nipped, the bottom tidy, and the breasts are a thing of wonder.