Sentence examples for got nipped from inspiring English sources

"In 2010 it started flowing into frontier markets, but the recovery got nipped in the bud because of the sovereign debt crisis".

Patrick Daksol, an accountant, said that when the medical devices company he used to work for switched from manual to electronic expense reporting, "all sorts of altering of receipts got nipped in the bud".

About the same time, I got nipped on my heal by the neighbor's bratty Chihuahua that never stays in his fenced yard.

He tried to look at her teeth and got nipped and cursed the luck that had brought him to that town, and asked to borrow a shovel so he could dig up his horse.

That was going to get nipped in the bud.

They get nipped in the face by scorpions.

It's one of those late-season apples that used to get nipped by the cold 20 years ago, when October meant temperatures in the 20s.

I'm honestly expecting a backlash and the companies like Zenith and Concord who threw their entire R&D budget into building pie plates with gears will get nipped.

This one needs to get nipped in the bud.

If our mindfulness has become very strong, the emotion gets nipped in the bud the moment we become aware of what's stirring -- we halt the impulse even before it takes hold.

Make sure your dog is used to you handling his mouth before brushing his teeth, so you don't get nipped on the hand.