Sentence examples for nip on from inspiring English sources

She once walked into a reception for a Japanese prince with the words, "Nip on!

Nip on!" She told Wyatt that she had "some reservations about Jews"; in the same spirit, she lobbied the British government to appease Hitler.

56 min: Galati Perendija gets booked for a nip on Wayne Rooney's ankles.

The midfielder is livid, as he's only committed a common-or-garden foul - a little nip on Kerzhakov - 30 yards from goal.

We're in the pool trying to cool off, and he comes right up behind my wife and gives her the tiniest little nip on her butt and then runs away.

"The seriousness of the offence is not whether two little puppies – who look like they could give you a nasty nip on the ankle – are dreadful animals, it's about the risk to biosecurity," he said.

Going for the Triple Crown, Real Quiet was nipped on the wire by Victory Gallop, losing by a nose.

Not one fruit-sort can you spy? Strange! – And I, too, at such trouble, Keep them close-nipped on the sly!

City will not play its crosstown rival United, the team it nipped on goal differential for the championship, until Dec. 8 at Old Trafford, with the return match at Etihad Stadium on April 6.

But the company's status as a pioneering upstart, nipping on the heels of bigger blue-chip firms like McKinsey and Booz Allen, fostered a deep camaraderie among its young employees, who traveled around the country advising clients like General Foods and the Mead Corporation.

Some are thinking creatively about how best to devote resources to this area within the context of the proposed new rules, such as reallocating the money to subsidised childcare or renaming paid parental leave schemes as "return-to-work bonuses", although the latter idea already looks to have been nipped on the bud.