Sentence examples for of nips from inspiring English sources

Lots and lots of nips and tucks — that's Apple's motto lately.

But there are also plenty of nips and tucks to the software itself.

It's full of nips and tucks, all welcome, all well-executed, though none killer — and the annual improvement in dictation accuracy.

If you have an iPhone 4S, getting an iPhone 5 would mean breaking your two-year carrier contract and paying a painful penalty; maybe not worth it for the 5's collection of nips and tucks.

If you allow for the automotive equivalent of nips 'n' tucks — the digital trickery that makes even the dreariest vehicle look great in photographs — and for the sad fact that the concept cars shown off at motor shows bear so little relation to the glum reality of the ones rolling off factory production lines, you'll see what I mean.

CHICAGO — Mayor Rahm Emanuel on Wednesday proposed a spending plan for his city next year that is full of nips and tucks: a 75-cent per pack increase in the cigarette tax, higher zoning permit fees for big developments, an end to some retirees' health insurance subsidies and a rolling hiring freeze.

"But I'm very conscious of nipping things in the bud".

He's also in favour of nipping problems in the bud.

The seamen complained of the birds' habit of nipping at loose limbs hanging out of hammocks.

It's just that little bit of nip that's been missing.

"But if the doctors get it when it just comes on, you can kind of nip it in the bud".