Sentence examples for nippy winter from inspiring English sources

The resulting richer fuel mixture burns more easily and helps to resuscitate a cold engine (the technique was often used in the old days when cars still had a manual choke on nippy winter mornings).On this occasion, though, the rider enjoyed some good fortune, too.

There was a lot to talk about: the stolen emails from the University of East Anglia, the UN climate summit in Copenhagen, the intense scrutiny placed on the IPCC, and the rather nippy winter experienced across much of the Northern Hemisphere.

It's a nippy winter morning.

"Hot enough for you?" might evoke the response "glorious, isn't it?" Or "Brrrrrrr, bit nippy today," answered by "Brass monkeys!" But assuming that weather conversation is inevitable, how can people make it a bit more interesting?

And says, in an accent as broad as the Thames: "Bit nippy today, isn't it?" Happiness comes to him easily; especially here in the Pacific Northwest, 5,000 miles away from the paparazzi's long lenses and the incessant do-you-mind requests to grin at strangers' phones.

Through all the seasons from spring (drizzly) and summer (close) to autumn (nippy) and winter (slippy), weather was discussed, pondered and moaned about.

Low power reserves and an unusually nippy early winter have made the problem worse.

He just told me the apartment gets really warm in the summer and a little nippy in the winter.

On a nippy Sunday afternoon last month, about a dozen volunteers for the Police Reform Organizing Project (PROP) descended on Park Slope, Brooklyn.

On this nippy evening in early November, as she curled up with a cup of cocoa in a Manhattan hotel suite, she was exhausted, even though she had just squeezed in a 45-minute nap, the heavy-lidded, woozy-voiced effects of which she was still shaking off.

It was nippy even in early June.