Sentence examples for trying to nibble from inspiring English sources

"He's not trying to nibble at the edges".

"I had good stuff early and I was just trying to nibble a little too much," Sabathia said.

"I was trying to nibble, and it cost us the game," Sabathia said of the Yankees' 4-2 loss.

Put another way, CNN is forever trying to nibble away at the audiences of both Fox News and MSNBC.

For the fourth time in a week, I woke up to the sound of a pigeon pecking my window screen, trying to nibble its way into my bedroom in the early morning.

"After years of trying to nibble around the edges with pilot programs that were well-intentioned, but that were not moving the needle," he said, the de Blasio administration would confront "this stubborn undercurrent" full throttle through paid sick leave, expansion of the so-called living wage law, municipal identification cards, universal prekindergarten and after-school programs.

Benjamín found water from a stream and tried to nibble on some plants.

Watch out for the goats though, they might try to nibble your sandwiches.

Since then, though, advocates of treating terrorism like bank robbery have tried to nibble away at the legality and morality of – and the political support for – the war on terror.

A lion tries to nibble, and vultures poke, but for a long stretch the carcass remains basically intact, which makes possible this enticing bit of narration: "Bloated by decomposition gases, it could explode if nothing punctures its skin".

Creative people's most important resource is their time particularly big chunks of uninterrupted time and their biggest enemies are those who try to nibble away at it with e-mails or meetings.