Sentence examples for should have nipped from inspiring English sources

"They probably should have nipped it in the bud many, many years ago".

Senator Bruno, who opposes the governor's plan, complained today that Mr. Silver should have nipped the letter in the bud.

Might have nipped out a wicket.

"They could have nipped it in the bud," one man told another confidently.

The new lot could have nipped the bonus fiasco in the bud.

"But he seems to have nipped it in the bud".

T. rex would have nipped at the knees of the largest sauropod - Argentinosaurus huinculensis.

We seem to have nipped that in the bud this campaign".

"This should have been nipped in the bud a year and a half ago," he said.

Then there's jargon that should have been nipped in the bud: groovy shorthand that hepcats tossed out to sound oh, so gnarly.

And Schnatter took things beyond  business when he said the player protests, "should have been nipped in the bud" by the NFL last season, when Colin Kaepernick first started kneeling.