Sentence examples for nipped from from inspiring English sources

Some competitors nipped from the bottle of schnapps, called Infernogeist, or Inferno ghost, an aperitif meant to allay racers' fears before they start down the perilous track.

Though swearing has been nipped from tonight's version of Starboy, the song's glaring reference to cocaine use will remain in place.

They were in the garage, the only place in the house with enough empty floor space to lay out the fabric, though today they were just sewing spangles on the jumpsuits, all sitting cross-legged on cushions nipped from the living-room sectional.

The cheating urn is a surprising (and I like surprising) mix of pretty plates nipped from American flag plates (a fun part of the process is discovering plates), shiny gems, tiles and mirrors — as incongruous a setting as I imagine Rielle Hunter's house may have been for John Edwards.

Still, when Simbal opened last year, the restaurant was kind of a mess: cold, chaotic and formless, organized around dim sum-style service half-heartedly nipped from State Bird Provisions in San Francisco and featuring Asian-ish dishes that lacked both the vitality of the originals and a modernist post-Myers sheen.

Nipping from podium to keyboard, he also plays the solo organ.

Then he produced a chunk of French baguette, and small fish in bright hues appeared from every direction to nip from it.

Users keen on the Tudors can nip from the palace at Hampton Court to a 1560 map of Civitas Londinium, and learn about Thomas Cromwell against the music of madrigals.

Its indestructible heroes are now international super-spies, thwarting evil megalomaniacs, donning dinner jackets, nipping from Tokyo to Abu Dhabi to the Caucasus Mountains and gawping at a computer genius as she sashays along a beach in a bikini.

The futuristic biotechnology research hub designed by Zaha Hadid is situated atop a verdant hillock, now slowly disappearing under a thicket of imposing glass-and-steel structures that are connected by suspended walkways which permit people to nip from one lab to another without getting drenched by the equatorial island state's frequent torrential rains.

Even when Susan nips from Paris to Rome to Budapest in pursuit of a stolen nuclear weapon, her allies and enemies assume she isn't up to the job, even as she repeatedly proves that she is, whether by defeating a knife-wielding assassin while armed only with a frying pan, or speaking French while interrogating a Parisian.