Sentence examples for is nipped from inspiring English sources
noun
A small quantity of something edible or a potable liquor.
- I'll just take a nip of that cake.
The waist is nipped, the bottom tidy, and the breasts are a thing of wonder.
Her face is nipped pink, her frame half-swallowed by a voluminous jumper.
Researchers have now taken much of the mystery out of the way the fish's eyesight is nipped.
Most of the hay is nipped at night along remote roads, from fields and barns hundreds of yards from the nearest home.
"Any tendency to introduce contemporary renewal is nipped in the bud," writes Volker Dienst in "20 x 3"(Architektur in Progress, 2001), a survey of young Austrian architects.
Browns 20-38 BengAny Any hint of a Cleveland comeback is nipped in the bud by Cincinnati, as Andy Dalton zips a two-yard pass to Mike Nugent in the end zone.
Vice is nipping at virtue's heels.
Trenton is nipping at your heels.
Now the system is nipping at their heels.
In most, though, he is nipping at Mr Romney's heels.
Besides, competition is nipping at NetCore's heels.
