Nipped Sentence Examples

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  • He nipped her hard enough to hurt.

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  • He didn't move away this time, and she nipped him.

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  • He nipped her neck, and she gasped, yearning and fire tearing through her.

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  • He nipped at her lips, his tongue darting in and out of her mouth.

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  • As against the civilian enemy the navy strangled commerce; its military preponderance nipped in the bud every successive attempt of the Confederates to create a fleet (for each new vessel as it emerged from the estuary or harbour in which it had been built, was destroyed or driven back), while at any given point a secure base was available for the far-ranging operations of the Union armies.

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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.

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  • Summer Pruning should be performed while the shoots are yet young and succulent, so that they may in most cases be nipped off with the thumb-nail.

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  • The quadrangular mouth is seen in the centre; the outline of the stomach wall, seen by transparency around it, is nipped in four places interradially to form the four gastric ridges.

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  • But the untimely death of Mansfield nipped in the bud the only rational scheme of settlement which seems at any time to have animated this wild community; and Morgan, now elected commander, swept the whole Caribbean, and from his headquarters in Jamaica led triumphant expeditions to Cuba and the mainland.

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  • Brady kissed her forehead, eyelids, cheeks, and nipped her neck, enjoying the feel of her hands roaming over his chest and back.

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  • He teased and nipped, his kiss deep enough to rob her of any resistance yet light enough that she raised onto her tiptoes to taste more of him.

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  • After the plants have done flowering, they should all get a little artificial warmth, plenty of moisture, and a slight shade, while they are making their growth, during which period the tips of the young shoots should be nipped out when 6 or 8 in.

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  • He growled in response and nipped her neck, pushing her away roughly.

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  • He nipped her neck, and she gasped, embarrassing herself.

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  • He licked and nipped her lips, explored her mouth, and pulled her deeper and deeper into a state of compliance.

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  • The Dark One nipped her.

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  • They were the kind of fangs a man fantasized about, not too large to cause damage but sharp enough to offer an exquisite combination of pleasure and pain if she nipped him.

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  • He kissed her neck then nipped her.

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  • Fortunately, however, the government, by dismissing the ringleader, Dr Campanozzi, in time nipped the agitation in the bud, and it did attempt to redress some of the genuine grievances.

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  • In 1806 the family of Tippoo Sultan produced a dangerous mutiny at Vellore, which was nipped in the bud by the prompt action of Gillespie and his dragoons.

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  • The Queen's finger is nipped by a royal corgi - that is news.

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  • Far more popular is the suit whose jacket features a nipped waist.

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  • The line started with sweatshirts and T-shirts and was really for the boys, although of course girlfriends have always nipped their boyfriends' clothes.

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  • Water is sucked up from a vessel of moderate size, the rubber is nipped, and by a quick motion the tube and vessel are separated, preferably by a downward movement of the latter.

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  • He leaned away from her neck but nipped her collarbone down to her shoulder.

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  • Collarless shirtwaister style dress with squared neckline, short cap sleeves, darted bust and nipped waist.

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  • Weak cases are now more likely to be nipped in the bud, reducing discontinuance of cases at a later stage.

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  • Two flats, probably due to under inflated tire allowing inner tube to get nipped.

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  • I nipped into the post office this morning and asked the postmistress about sending money via MoneyGram to Nigeria.

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  • Classic shirtwaister style, with short sleeves, open revered collars and fitted nipped waister style, with short sleeves, open revered collars and fitted nipped waist with gathered full dirndl skirt.

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  • Nipped waist and eleven faceted red buttons and rouleau loops to fasten down the bodice.

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  • Curve enhancing fit with little cap sleeves, fitted darted bodice with nipped waist and scoop neckline edged with blue piping.

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  • Do not swing on the screw driver, the tang screw should be merely " nipped up " to position.

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  • The plant early forces its way up even through the frost-bound earth, but the tender flower-spike, tender only in infancy, is nipped in the bud if rain fall on it and freezes.

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  • If uncovered too soon in spring, the young growths get nipped by late frosts.

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  • If your plants should get nipped by the frost, it's important to leave them alone.

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  • The most common coat for men was the frock coat, which varied in length but whose style was always that of a nipped waist and skirted bottom.

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  • They can be nipped in the waist or hang loose and are usually in a rich color.

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  • Ruching can emphasize a small bust, create the illusion of a nipped in waistline, and help minimize the belly area.

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  • Wrap dresses can be quite figure flattering, creating the illusion of a nipped in waist.

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  • This is a one piece suit, but the company claims that the fabric features "triple holding power" to further help keep you nipped and tucked.

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  • A lot of women favor tailored jackets with a nipped waist and a bit of a peplum - so flattering to most hips.

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  • Suit jackets were nipped in at the waist, so this narrow waistline combined with the full skirt gave women an hourglass figure.

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  • The medial plica can also become nipped between patella and condyle, causing momentary pain and ' giving way ' .

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  • Trees, of which the young buds are nipped by frost, would frequently not suffer material injury, were it not that the small frost-cracks serve as points of entry for Fungi; and numerous cases are known where even high temperatures can be endured on rich, deep, retentive soils by plants which at once succumb to drought on shallow or non-retentive soils.

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  • Pyramidal and bush trees out of doors are, of course, suffered to become somewhat larger, and sufficient wood must be allowed to grow to give them the form desired; but after the first year or two, when the framework is laid out, they are permitted to extend very slowly, and never to any great extent, while the young growths are continually nipped off, so as to clothe the branches with fruit buds as closely placed as will permit of their healthy development.

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  • A loyal bureaucracy, far more powerful than the phantom administration of Bourges or of Poitiers, gradually took the place of the court nobility; and thanks to this the institutions of control which the War had called into powerthe provincial states-general were nipped in the bud, withered by the peoples poverty of political idea and by the blind worship of royalty.

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  • Grass tickled her hands, a chilled wind nipped her neck, and the scents from her vision intensified until she was near gagging.

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  • The strain on the log-ship when the log-line is nipped, causes the peg to be withdrawn from it, and the log-ship is readily hauled in.

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