Sentence examples for nip her from inspiring English sources

Flanagan, one of the top milers, from Marblehead, Mass., was leading in the mile yesterday until five meters from the finish, when Emily Kroshus of Calgary, Alberta, came on to nip her at the tape in 4 46.79, just 12-hundredths of a second ahead.

In no time at all McCaughey could nip her dirty little habit of making crazy claims about health care reform in the bud.

Two minutes later 3,000 cockroaches joined the maggots in Dorries' crate, prompting her to complain that something was nipping her knee.

America, however, may want an angry white male bully more than it can stomach a confident woman – and that's part (not all) of why this troglodyte is nipping her in polls.

I'd watch the robin on her nest sometimes rocking as if she were on the deck of a ship and imagine those little ones squished underneath, fidgeting and nipping her while she tried to keep them tamped down until Dad could figure out where the next worm was coming from.

He still nips her fingers, but he's learning to stop when she tells him no.

McDonald would bring Mimi home-cooked chicken and rice and buy her caramel Nips, her favorite candy.

She didn't mind that he smelled, or constantly nipped her fingers, or seemed to have an obsessive need to lick everything.