Sentence examples for nick away from inspiring English sources

A woman was trying to wave Nick away as she spoke into her cellphone about vacuum seal storage bags.

The task, Mr. O'Neill said, was to "nick away" at terrorists' ability to operate in the United States.

Connie bursts in, exclaiming to the therapist, "How would you like it if I made you cry?," and drags Nick away.

And Nick is fooling around with a black boarder, Mrs. Neilsen (Jeannette Bayardelle), who stands to come into an inheritance and plans to whisk poor Nick away from Duluth, and out of debt.

Got in to cover centre-backs superbly with nick away from Benzema's toes.

Do small bits of it disappear as rats and bugs nick away at the decaying flesh?

It nicks away at you, its progress messy and unpredictable.

Zozulya is first to react, nicking away from Friedel, but also away from goal, so he dives and is booked.

Fábregas and Messi thought they were through; but as they prepared to shoot, the ball was gone, nicked away by the Frenchman.

The same cast plus Amazon, Sony and Barnes & Noble have tablets, each with a slightly different angle, also nicking away at Apple's prize iPad market dominance.

Less than stellar consumer reviews on a number of applications from MobileMe to Apple Maps have nicked away at that promise.