Sentence examples for nip them from inspiring English sources

The faster you deal with them, the more you nip them in the bud.

"And we haven't had frosts to nip them in the bud".

My fruit tree has its first green shoots and the bullfinches have already come to nip them in the bud.

He said Mr. Clough had another quality essential for a leader: "the ability to foresee issues that are going to become explosive and more often than not nip them in the bud".

Surveillance, which the research's proponents adduce as an example of how mutation data can help protect human health by flagging up potentially dangerous strains to nip them in the bud, may be fine in theory.

It's much better to nip them in the bud – getting on top of the problem now – before eradication at many sites in the wild becomes difficult and prohibitively expensive".

It turns out that children are at a dog's teeth level and dogs tend to warn away other dogs by nipping them on the muzzle.

The Nets nipped them, 82-75, at Conseco Fieldhouse, putting together their best two performances of the season in back-to-back nights.

Hanushek told me, "The evidence is mixed on all of them because they're pretty significant changes, and the unions and others have nipped them in the bud, so there's not much evidence".

Henry Holland featured them in his groupie show and Christopher Bailey nipped them in at the waist, popped on a bright perspex collar and relied on Jourdan Dunn to show them off.

"We all remember that Twenty20 game at Hampshire where we kept nipping them out," said Collingwood, before Tuesday's first one-day international, which is also at the Rose Bowl.