Sentence examples for managed to nip from inspiring English sources
The first is that Thailand is one of the few countries that has managed to nip a potentially serious AIDS epidemic in the bud.
I managed to nip down to the ICA to catch the Grierson Award winner, Andrey Paounov, a Bulgarian documentary maker whose film The Mosquito Problem and Other Stories was voted the best doc in the whole festival and I was at the launch of the BIFA nominations to speak to its director Elliot Grove about how they've managed to reach 10 years of awards and become the opener for awards season.
McKay had the chance to open the scoring within minutes of the restart after he managed to nip in behind Gunning, but he curled his shot wide, and that miss would prove pivotal a minute later.
Down the years, a few more subversive scripts did manage to nip past the censors.
In the last few months, however, the operations center has managed to make enough nips and tucks to lift that average to 10. "Control is Disney's middle name, so they have always been on the cutting edge of this kind of thing," said Bob Sehlinger, co-author of "The Unofficial Guide: Walt Disney World 2011" and a writer on Disney for Frommers.com.
(Mr. Morris nonetheless managed to get the bottle aboard, sneak nips in the bus bathroom, mix it with Cherry Coke in Des Moines and replenish his supply during a layover in Omaha when he failed to find a strip club).
"We managed to get the goal and the game was nip and tuck from that point.
She's gone without pants, worn nip-slip-threatening necklines and has managed to make body con dresses her wardrobe staple -- all on national television.
With the help of Spot, a feisty little Australian cattle dog that nipped at the longhorns' heels, Mr. Sikoryak and Mr. Dumser managed to single out their cow in 20 seconds.
Yet after some careless moments earlier in the day, costing the wickets of the nightwatchman, Chris Rushworth, and Scott Borthwick, plus the loss of a dangerous-looking Benkenstein to a nip-backer from Steven Mullaney, Smith's obduracy saved the day, more so given that Stokes managed to get himself caught off a leading edge when Broad got him into a tangle.
