"has been nipped" is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
You can use the phrase when you want to express that something has been pinched, cut, bitten, or stopped abruptly. For example: "The bud of the rose has been nipped by the sudden frost."
Each spike ends bluntly where it has been nipped off, shorn of that final vicious spine.
La Crocker has been nipped and tucked seven times since her original 1936 appearance, most recently four years ago.
"If you catch enough alligators, you're going to get bit," said Mr. Glass, who has been nipped and has watched two workers suffer more serious injuries.
View on Instagram Though it has been nipped, tucked, and stiffened over the years, the Wavestorm eight-footer has existed in roughly the same form since 2006.
'We shouldn't be fooled into thinking that lobbyist corruption has been nipped in the bud with Abramoff's confessions,' said Frank Clemente, director of the watchdog group Public Citizen.
Though swearing has been nipped from tonight's version of Starboy, the song's glaring reference to cocaine use will remain in place.
For a while now, though, the pinching has been nipping too painfully for some.
Apple's iPad has been nipping into sales of low-end laptop computers for some time, a trend Microsoft and its partners in the PC business desperately want to stop.
For the past year, Alphabet has been nipping at Apple's heels.
But Epson, which has been nipping at its heels, had a respectable 23.7% and Canon had 17.7%.
Google has been nipping at Apple's heeels, and at some moments seemed likely that it would permanently overtake the position of the most valuable company in the world (as it did at one point, momentarily).
