Sentence examples for it's nipping from inspiring English sources

Forget China, Baidu is now the third largest search site in the world and it's nipping at Yahoo's heels to become number two.

Ironically, the Wii Balance Board's Global LTD Install Base is just shy of 15 million and it's nipping at the PS3's heels.

Excited signals: Any time a dog is bouncing or jumping around, it's usually just excited, even if it's nipping at you some.

The strawberry flavor is low and long, and before it weighs you down, it's nipped by the mint and bubbles.

Like every automaker these days, Porsche has had to buckle down and find ways to save money, and it is nipping and tucking where it can to save €100 million, or $130 million.

"I didn't want to just hang around there, it was nipping around and they were bowling well so I wanted to put it back on them.

Huddersfield hinted at a fightback with Aspinwall's second, but it was nipped in the bud by a fine individual effort from Hull's scrum-half Richard Horne, and Aspinwall's third try came too late to be anything other than consolation.

The Millennium Dome robbery of 2000 might well have been the most spectacular but it was nipped in the bud by the Flying Squad before its perpetrators could get away with an estimated £200m worth of diamonds from the Money Zone.

However, unless it is nipped in the bud we will continue to see Canadian police mimic their US counterparts," Davies warned.

I didn't see myself getting the games taken away: it'd just prolong the affair, so I'm nipping it in the bud now," said Ferdinand, who was speaking at the Web Summit technology conference in Dublin this afternoon.

"It's nip and tuck right now".