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Sentence Examples A nip and tuck later and the doubles are switched with their real life counterparts. We agreed we'd nip down to the big supermarket in Taunton today and get a new one. The pace is deliberately slow to give the llamas time to nip the spiky bunch grass along the way. Anyway, I managed to squeeze into my exam suit and, in between feeds, nip over to the royal college to do my vivas. We should nip this nonsensical argument in the bud before it's taken too far, and the federal government follows. Even animals chastise their offspring with a little nip of pain to teach them to behave. It's also fast enough to surf standing waves, stable enough to 360 in some holes, and nimble enough to nip into tiny eddies for a break. And if you could get him to nip round with a feather duster, I would be most grateful. What she will say is that her new relationship is only just blossoming, so she doesn't want to nip it in the bud by being indiscreet. If this gives you the pip, think before you nip about the wisdom of people in glass houses not throwing stones. Meanwhile, go read some of the fine blogs at the side there, and I'll just nip off and quietly drink myself insensible in the hiatus. A consumer backlash against genetically modified food helped nip investor enthusiasm in the bioengineered bud. What we thought was going to be a costume change turned out to be a nip off stage to get a cough sweet. This time the world is alerted, and we must use our collective moral force to nip this outrage in the bud. His fair hand made a gesture to touch the dog's face but was rewarded by a painful nip from her sharp fangs. Ministers hope the national launch of the scheme will help nip offending in the bud and stop young people being drawn into a life of crime. I'm a real giggler and I sometimes have to nip myself until it hurts to stop myself. Following them will often be a crowd of wrasse or snapper, hoping to nip in for a free meal uncovered by the goatfish. For many, that left just enough time to nip home, take a shower, and head in to work, tired but still flush with excitement. Nobody wants to work on a Sunday but everybody wants to nip down to their local supermarket and buy their food. Show More Sentences Don't worry, he lives just down the road, so I can nip round for a quick fix. However during the first half I had to nip to the loo twice and on each journey I slugged another quickie of Rioja down. The largest male is dominant and defends his territory by charging the smaller ones, using his kype to nip them. The male has been known to nip at the bottom edges of the tentacles in order to cause retraction. He is calling for the appointment of an independent arbitrator to nip the dispute in the bud. So you can't believe your luck when you nip out for five minutes and your house goes up in smoke without trace. The better spectacle may prove to be half the division scrapping to avoid relegation rather than the nip and tuck which will signify the top. For a squeamish diary writer it was enough to send me to the editor's well-stocked drinks cabinet for a nip of his favourite barley wine. Great place to nip into on the way to Hollywood and load up on flaming sambuca's at the bar with the lovely barmaids. With every handshake my glass was topped up with a nip of whisky and by 1am I was feeling rather wobbly. September's mildness gave way to the nip of October, causing fires to be lit throughout the great house, and still no word came from Mr Darcy. That may be so, but why should someone suffer from society's slights if she can overcome them with a nip here and a tuck there? He had more chance of catching something in a jam jar than where he had cast his lines but we didn't have the heart to nip back and tell him. Eventually we nip to Pizza Express around the corner while we're waiting to be unclamped. The U.S. muffed that opportunity to nip this kind of behavior, so destructive of the global marketplace, in the bud. The aim is to nip any problems in the bud before they spiral out of control and lead to youngsters dropping out or underachieving. Local bobbies are stepping up patrols in part of the West End to nip the problems in the bud. He remained, wallet intact, unharmed by so much as a single scratch or nip. You'll be touching 185 mph in seventh and, if you time it right, you can pop out of the slipstream of the guy in front and nip inside. It was only a nip and it didn't break the skin, but it is about what the dog may do the next time. Show More Sentences We'd nip at the opposing forces heels, dodging their boots and fists, not to mention brickbats and clubs. They added he is low maintenance, but if he's upset he will hiss or nip at fingers. I want to run into the surf and away again screaming as the waves coldly nip at my ankles. They'll be powdered over and I won't be able to nip them off as conveniently as now. The patient observer may see it trying to nip feeding arms off unfortunate barnacles. You might then want to nip quickly outside to see how the people of Leystonstone see the mosaics from various entrances. There doesn't seem to be much on TV this evening so I may nip into town and see Millions. One can no longer nip into town to pay a two-minute visit to the bank without having to pay a minimum of 70p for the privilege. I quickly nip back in my room to put on my sneakers when the Scottish roommate informs me that the girlfriend has locked herself in his room. I had to nip over to the nursery and drop the company car back, but no trains were running, so I had to take a bus. He can't nip off to the pub without someone demolishing first his house and then his planet. You might conceivably nip out to the concessions stand, visit the loo and still come back to the same scene. She sighed and looked on dreamily, before receiving a sharp nip on the ear. I am also fairly concerned about running into one of these little bastards, who look as if they give a nasty nip. He continued to suck my throat and after he gave me one last nip on my shoulder, he straightened out. Our largest native flying bird can deliver a nasty nip and the males know no fear when it comes to the defence of their mates and nestlings. Herding the neighborhood kids and giving an occasional light nip to a rear end or ankle might seem like a funny game in the beginning. She came into the barn from the field, her face flush with the nip of the cold. With winter coming on, a nip of whiskey helps keep you from feeling the nip of the cold. The nip in the air tells us that summer is drawing to a close and autumn is getting ready make its entrance. Show More Sentences But every morning now there is a sharp nip in the air, and at night you need to wrap up. See how I have swapped from cold white wine to red now that there is a nip in the air. Right on schedule, there's a bracing nip in the air these days, and the Montreal live-music scene is shaking off its end-of-summer sluggishness. If you see a muscle-bound Austrian man wandering around in the nip, assume he knows what he's doing and just run. I want to nip it in the bud at an early age and make them realise what pain it causes not just the victims but their families as well. One young lady advised a nip of Cointreau liqueur just prior to starting as it coated the throat and calmed her nerves. Keith used to get up quite early, long before Jan, and have a couple of cups of tea with a nip of rum in them. The first few nights Mom slipped me half a Vicodin and a nip of Benedictine brandy. However I only drank very rarely and as such wasn't used to more than the occasional nip. Coax her into splashing just a nip of Bailey's into your coffee or maybe just a sip of Absolut into your Evian bottle. As if the fights didn't make it memorable enough, the game was nip and tuck all the way. Neck and neck, very tight, and been my view the whole time that it was going to be nip and tuck right down to the wire, to the debates at least. In a nip and tuck thirty minutes just two scores were recorded with both defences in top form. It was nip and tuck for the initial seven minutes, but the forwards made little headway for the initiative shown further afield. That hadn't been the case in a nip and tuck first half hour though when the scene looked set for a real thriller. Whether it's a simple nip and tuck or substantial reconstructive surgery, the course is given plenty of time to heal all scars. The two teams were nip and tuck all the way up to half time. It climaxed with two guys standing gyrating on the stage in the nip. And when you've all done pitying, you have to run up to Stephen, grab hold of both of his great puddingy cheeks and give them a good old nip and stretch of congratulations. Long days, if you're lucky, of still warm sunshine with a nip in the evening air that makes an aromatic log fire and an after-dinner digestif most welcome. Show More Sentences While Will and the others are buying their first drink, I nip to the loo. Fear of revealing ideas early was also cited as a cause of delay, as the potential users do not get a chance to nip bad ideas in the bud early in the design phase. It was nip and tuck as they fenced with each other for the next ten minutes, the scores level four times and little obvious to break the stalemate. Lebanese security agencies have been quick to try to nip what could well be a new bombing spate in the bud. We need to rent a small van for the weekend of January 20 so we can nip up to London and fetch down the stuff that's accumulated in the flat over the past year. They've been pushing each other and it is nip and tuck between them. I've watched mother cats nip their kits for playing too rough. In the second thirty minutes it was nip and tuck all the way. Any day now, I can just picture it, I'll nip down to them in the basement and they'll be beavering away at Two Gentlemen of Verona or A Midsummer Night's Dream. Ray wanted to explain that a quick nip after breakfast and before lunch made the mind-numbing labor of sticking letters in their appropriate boxes go by a little smoother. He's got me twice now and a young woman who passed me on Sunday afternoon told me that only a fortuitously placed handbag had spared her an embarrassing and painful nip. I jumped suddenly as I felt a sharp nip given to my shoulder. What I do miss are the few glasses of red in the evening, the odd pint out in the pub with the lads, or a hot chocolate with a nip of rum in it before bed. But even with the comfort of a fully underwritten share offer, Allan would be forgiven for reaching for a nip of Armenian brandy himself in the next few days. She barely noticed the season's first nip of cold on her cheeks as she strode confidently through the dark streets, lit with nothing but the scarce streetlights. However, the nip in the air is nothing compared to the chill in the heart of Ebenezer, surviving partner of Scrooge and Marley, private merchant bankers and moneylenders. After all, the poor beggars can't nip outside for a quick drag, can they? In the phony world of celebrity, very few are as honest about having had a little work, a little nip and tuck, so to speak, as you have always been. Sora bit his lip as he felt the sharp nip set his nerves a ringing. Then like a conventional skewer you spin the small end till she starts to bite, nip the lever down and you've got a solid under carriage, no tools! Show More Sentences I mean, everyone knows somebody who has had a little nip or a little tuck. A penalty apiece from Flatley and Paterson saw the sides locked together at 3-3 after 10 minutes and it was nip and tuck for the rest of the half. But the competition stayed nip and tuck, copying our every move. And later still, when I ambled around the estates, listening to the sweet tweet of the birds and the occasional joy-rider, there was no nip in the air. Rich men put their mistresses there so they can nip in and visit them on the way home. To the north, the icy southern peaks of the Brooks Range, the northernmost mountain range on the continent, nip at the sky. A sharpening nip to the wind made me look south, where a familiar pearling of the sky and darkening of sea showed that the ferryman's prophecy was set to come true. Winter is round the corner and there is a nip in the morning air. The air was that perfect refreshing nip of cold, just enough to tint the cheeks pink, and the topaz sky was cloudless and cheery, even in the late morning. The second half was nip and tuck with good tackling by both sides. With a nip in the air and holiday's on the doorstep, customers often like nothing better than warming their hands and their insides with a hot drink. Hordes of other beautiful people nip between the trendy boutiques, or crowd into sidewalk cafes, and sip skinny lattes between long puffs on cancer sticks. Probably the best time to visit is spring or autumn when the sharp nip in the air is still a welcome novelty and makes sight-seeing on foot more pleasant. A neckerchief round a sore throat will sometimes nip colds in the bud. Lexus has concentrated on the higher luxury segments in the past and in 1999 it fought nip and tuck with Mercedes for the luxury auto sales crown in the United States. Their private battle, often fought for minor placings several minutes behind the day's escape, was nip and tuck from the first week, when McEwen was 10 points behind. With summer drawn to a close and a definite feeling of that autumn nip in the air, one can't help but miss the lazy, hazy days of July and August. Jake quickly crossed the street in front of the small run-down 7-11 on Main Street and ran in before the cold air had the chance to nip at his nose. It was nip and tuck throughout, with the place changing many times. And later still, when I ambled with Faraday around the estates, listening to the sweet tweet of the birds and the occasional joy-rider, there was no nip in the air. Show More Sentences This year will be nip and tuck, but I think we will show a profit. We find pretexts and excuses to nip through the main room to check on David, bringing him half an orange, a chunk of chocolate, so he knows we're still thinking of him. They're in calendars naked and when they're not photographed sitting on the back of quad bikes in the nip then they're posing around in Gucci and Armani and Hugo Boss. Well, it was nip and tuck, but everything worked out fine. Santa Claus got there in time to bring toys to all the boys and girls. The masterbatches described above were masticated on a two roll mill until a flux was created at the nip of the rollers. Also, a longer distance to the roll nip can result in excessive neckdown of the sheet width. But then one day there's a nip in the air, and I start thinking of soup. The nip of the roller pairs prevent the twist from backing up to the roving. We were able to maybe nip truancy in the bud for some young people who may have not truanted much before. As you reach Santiago del Teide at 1,000ft above sea level, there's a real nip in the air. I have a CRYO session and nip in for dinner and drinks at La Cantine at Emirates Towers. I'm eating now, I got this Hornitos Plata tequila on the couch next to me and, self-satisfied, I took a nip from the cap. This sensor system, which records nip width, renders obsolete time-consuming and inexact tools such as carbon paper and embossed foils. I would like to think, in fact, that it might nip in the bud any wimpish lurch toward vegetarianism. But Good Girl Cat Nip drops may have the edge as they can't resist cat nip. Something else we ought to nip in the bud is the racial rantings of some members of the black and Asian police officers' association. Try exfoliating your hands with a body scrub and then nip only those hangnails that you can wiggle. May this hard earth cleave to the Nadir hell, Down, down, and close again, and nip me flat, If I be such a traitress. A novice nip, newly arrived in London, went one afternoon to the Red Bull in Bishopsgate, an inn converted to a playhouse. Home Depot's leading competitor, an opening to nip at its heels with a user-friendlier image. Show More Sentences Additionally, the Cats Kraze features a reservoir in which to store cat nip, which would serve as further encouragement for a cat to play with it. However, Michalis Kamas, head of the Commercial Banks' Association, yesterday moved to nip in the bud any hopes that interest rates would go down. If you see a bad habit begin to develop, try to nip it in the bud so that it does not become ingrained. Issues are easier to sort out the earlier they are addressed. A little nip in the wedding tackle can really put you off your beer. The Doncaster fighter was in a nip and tuck affair with Javier Chacon but early in the 10th round the Argentinean retired with a damaged shoulder. The reality is that we'll hopefully smoke the peace pipe and now figured out a way to communicate so Bob and I can talk so any issue we can nip in the bud quickly. Take the tops off cucumber plants and nip off the tips of the sideshoots a few weeks before you want to remove the plants from the greenhouse, to coax them into swelling. What's a little nip in the air when there are bubbies to be flashed? He has cat nip rubbed on to stairs, food is tipped in to a metal bowl, all of his toys are noisy, and you must speak to him and let him smell your hand before fussing. I have still got that card you picked out because it was like my dog Nip, and it was the dead ring of him. Nip nasty niffs in the bud with Orla Kiely's bluebell and rosemary diffuser, PS25, from www. A NIP from a brown rat and a dog defending what it saw as its sausage roll were among hundreds of animal incidents dealt with by paramedics over the course of a year. Examples from Classical Literature In this position he could at least nip the cross-piece, and worry it with his teeth. There's cigarettes on the locker and a nip of the Scotch to keep the chill out. Ill just nip off ane o the pearlies on the crown to let you taste how good it is. Be that as it may, it was nip and tuck between them in the gubernatorial campaign. And, to make it all the better, it was cold enough to nip one's nose short off! The Texan patted the neck of his cow pony, which reached round playfully and pretended to nip his leg. Clark and Stars were fairly in lock-step behind Hall, and it was nip and tuck with the three until the tape was broken. Pc Chump refused to come to my side of the car to hear why I wanted to nip along Priory Queensway and loop down to the hospital. But like those rampaging Dinosaur ants of South America who wander far and nip nastily, the trucks are back. It was nip and tuck across to the Contra Costa Hills, neither of us seeming to gain or to lose. In the '80s, terms like nip and tuck and liposuction were on everyone's plumped-up lips. Now you get hold of all the door-keys you can find, and I'll nip all of auntie's, and the first dark night we'll go there and try 'em. Fans were already banned from smoking in the stands, but some would nip off to light up in an outside smoking area at half time. I can't help imagining that perhaps just as we get to the middle, they'll crumple up like a jack-knife and nip us. Who coaxes the flowers from the ground, only that the frost may nip them? Because some years ago, somebody realised that it's quite difficult to nip through a revolving door if you use a wheelchair. He was no teetotaler, and welcomed a stiff nip any time when it was wet work in the boats. Could not she nip the first in the bud, and sterilise the rest? Let us nip his complacent sense of invulnerability in the bud. I'll be havin' a nip now we're alone, and that cacklin' hen gone. Show More Sentences Jerry had never forgotten the ecstasy of the hair, unmistakably doggy in scent, which had filled his mouth at his one successful nip. Though perhaps not quite prepared for the scale and intensity of Nouvel's madcap overtures, historically, Reina Sofia is no stranger to the odd bit of inventive nip and tuck. Even as it was, it would be nip and tuck as to who came first to her side. The dried seeds were split in a disc attrition mill using a nip of about 3mm, to detach testa and rootlets from cotyledons which were removed by winnowing. The Cayenne is getting a nip and tuck after four years on the market. Bullets began to whistle among the branches and nip at the trees. The correction potential is independent of the main nip force, with corrections applicable as nip force additions or subtractions at any location on the roll. The team was named Nip and Tuck, and this is the story of how we learned to farm together. Find more words! 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What is the opposite of nip? Words that rhyme with nip What is the past tense of nip? What is the plural of nip? What is the adverb for nip? What is the noun for nip? Translations for nip Use our Sentence Generator Nearby Words Niort Niobrara niobium niobic Niobe Ninus Nip NIP nipa NIPA nip in the bud Nipissing 3-letter Words Starting With n ni