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Example sentences for "nip"

Lexicographically close words:
ninos; nint; ninth; ninths; nion; nipa; nipal; nipped; nippers; nipping
  1. But after a while, like an eager dog, he began to kindle towards the prey, and shot forth jealous glances, and resolved to have a nip for his own tooth.

  2. His intention had been to have a quiet smoke, and his nip or two of cordial by the fire, while he went through his tablets by the latest lights.

  3. You promised you'd come as soon as you'd finished that other game.

  4. He didn't understand his trade, and he couldn't make a coffin properly to save 'is life!

  5. And when they were tired of these, each child 'said a piece' or sung a song, learnt specially for the occasion.

  6. It will keep them in good humour to have her to invent new games.

  7. Roll it up into spills, and forget all about it.

  8. It was at this moment that Weejee, the pet dog, took a sharp nip at the end of my tennis trousers.

  9. At this moment Weejee took the second nip at my other trouser leg.

  10. Somehow he felt that if he tried to drive it away, it might nip him in the ankle.

  11. It may be that your par's nip is extremely small, while JOHN SMITH'S par's nip is very large.

  12. The size of the nip usually depends upon the par.


    13. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "nip" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    abbreviate; abridge; abstract; acquire; afflict; agonize; amputate; annex; annihilate; approach; appropriate; bag; ban; bar; barrel; benumb; bite; bitterness; blast; blight; bolus; boom; boost; borrow; breeze; brush; bumper; burn; center; centralize; chafe; chew; chill; chip; claim; clamp; clasp; cleave; clench; clinch; cling; clip; close; clout; clutch; coldness; collar; compress; compression; concentrate; condense; congeal; contract; converge; convulse; cool; cop; cramp; crib; crick; crop; crucify; crumb; crush; cud; cull; curtail; cut; dash; defraud; distress; dock; dollop; dose; draft; drain; dram; draught; draughtsman; draughty; drench; drink; drop; eliminate; embezzle; embrace; end; epitomize; eradicate; except; excise; exclude; extinguish; extirpate; extort; fester; filch; finish; fleet; flit; fly; foot; foothold; footing; foreshorten; freeze; fret; frost; frostbite; funnel; gall; gargle; gash; get; ginger; gnash; gnaw; gnawing; grapple; grasp; grate; grind; grip; gripe; gulp; guts; guzzle; harrow; highball; hitch; hold; hook; hug; hurry; hurt; hustle; ice; imbibe; inclemency; inflame; intersect; irritate; isolate; jerk; jigger; jolt; keenness; kick; kill; kink; lacerate; lap; libation; lift; liveliness; martyr; meet; morceau; morsel; mouthful; munch; mutilate; nail; nibble; nick; nip; numb; pain; palm; pang; pare; paroxysm; partake; patch; peel; peg; penetrate; pierce; pilfer; pinch; poach; pocket; poll; portion; possess; potation; potion; press; pressure; prick; prune; pull; punch; purchase; purloin; quaff; quid; rack; rankle; rasp; reap; recapitulate; receive; reduce; refrigerate; relish; retrench; rid; rigor; round; rub; rustle; scamper; scorch; scrap; seizure; severity; sharpness; shave; shear; shiver; shoot; shooting; shorten; shot; shred; sip; sizzle; skim; slaughter; sliver; slug; snake; snap; snare; snatch; snip; snitch; snort; snub; soak; spasm; speed; spice; splinter; spot; squeeze; squeezing; stab; steal; stick; sting; stitch; storm; strip; stunt; suck; summarize; sup; swallow; sweep; swig; swill; swindle; swipe; take; tang; taper; taste; tatter; tear; telescope; thief; thieve; thrill; throes; tighten; tightening; tipple; tope; torment; torture; tot; trim; truncate; tweak; twinge; twist; twitch; unite; wad; wet; whisk; whiz; wound; wrench; wring; zest; zing; zoom