Sentence example with the word 'nipped'

nipped

abbreviated, capsule, compressed, constricted, curtailed, elided, mown, polled, reaped, shortened, squeezed, wasp-waisted

Last update: October 8, 2015


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Here Wellington supported the proposal for the immediate evacuation of France, and it was owing to his common-sense criticism that the proposal of Prussia, supported by the emperor Alexander and Metternich, to establish an "army of observation" at Brussels, was nipped in the bud.   [Please select]

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Bending, she nipped a peak of skirt above her knee.   [Please select]

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Santos nipped it in the bud with a vengeance.   [Please select]

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I suppose she got nipped between two icebergs.   [Please select]

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And he was sent out here to get him out of the zone of danger, and now he's been nipped.   [Please select]

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But the frost has nipped his zeal--along with the hundred or more dollars' worth of flowers by which he testified his faith.   [Please select]

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Darling, who took a cab and nipped in first, and so he got her.   [Please select]

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