And Chase running around behind Foreman, kind of nipping at his ankles Pay the man!.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2006-11-01] Reference

Why does my dog keep "nipping" at my little brother for no reason? en Español.    From Wordnik.com.  [Yahoo! Answers: Latest Questions] Reference

We are pinched with "nipping" airs which do not remain clear and steady, but unbend themselves in a dirty slush called snow in the papers.    From Wordnik.com.  [Early Letters of George Wm. Curtis] Reference

Winter fell upon the country suddenly with nipping cold.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Beth Book Being a Study of the Life of Elizabeth Caldwell Maclure, a Woman of Genius] Reference

Could e'er the beauteous snow dread the nipping of frost?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Hung Lou Meng, Book II Or, the Dream of the Red Chamber, a Chinese Novel in Two Books] Reference

     There in the car, the monkey kept nipping his neck.    From Wordnik.com.  [An Old Sweet Song] Reference

Hong Kong has more immediate competitors nipping at its heels.    From Wordnik.com.  [Built To Last] Reference

Do you worry about "Good Morning America" nipping at your heels?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Tops Of The Morning] Reference

The nipping winter is essential to the green and flowery spring.    From Wordnik.com.  [My Daily Meditation for the Circling Year] Reference

You can bar the very gates of heaven with that nipping little word.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Right Knock A Story] Reference

The silken quilt cannot ward off the nipping force of autumn winds.    From Wordnik.com.  [Hung Lou Meng, Book II Or, the Dream of the Red Chamber, a Chinese Novel in Two Books] Reference

The air was nipping, clear and thin, and sweet with frosty fragrance.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Boy Scouts Book of Campfire Stories] Reference

And as he sees it, that does not include a free press nipping at his flanks.    From Wordnik.com.  [All Putin All The Time] Reference

But that doesn't mean they don't notice the riffraff nipping at their heels.    From Wordnik.com.  [Les Leopold: Poverty Rises as Wall Street Billionaires Whine] Reference

The next thing to do was just round me; just had to catch its little nipping neck.    From Wordnik.com.  [Magic X] Reference

Even though some nipping and tucking went on, the biggest change was under the hood.    From Wordnik.com.  [Just In: 2010 Audi A6 3.0T] Reference

The train was forced to a crawl with the cowcatcher fairly nipping at the horse's heels.    From Wordnik.com.  [Jokes For All Occasions Selected and Edited by One of America's Foremost Public Speakers] Reference

What was it Jerry and the others had said about the Pirate Shark always nipping the air hose first?.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Pirate Shark] Reference

His glazed eyes, tinged with a drunkard's pink, are starving scarabs nipping at my toes and clavicle.    From Wordnik.com.  [Europa] Reference

This is regulated by nipping the discharge-tube with the spring clothes pin supplied for the purpose.    From Wordnik.com.  [Scientific American Supplement, No. 358, November 11, 1882] Reference

As for Adobe, fast-moving rivals are already nipping at its heels, among them a neighbor: No Hands Software.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Info-Warriors] Reference

And where are the Irish bhoys themselves, in whose interests we are freezing our fingers and nipping our noses?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 104, January 14, 1893] Reference

But Gavrilo would most likely be working in the office in between nipping out to the graduate bar for a few more pints.    From Wordnik.com.  [Excerpt from De Imitatio Calembouri] Reference

When deeply moved he might go so far as to diffuse a nipping frost around him, but no angry words ever fell from his lips.    From Wordnik.com.  [Tin-Types Taken in the Streets of New York A Series of Stories and Sketches Portraying Many Singular Phases of Metropolitan Life] Reference

Then, instead of seeing the merry little monkey, he saw a big black and white dog, who was barking and nipping at his heels.    From Wordnik.com.  [Tum Tum, the Jolly Elephant His Many Adventures] Reference

Detected that early and treated -- sometimes simply by nipping out the malignant cells -- the cure rate is at least 90 percent.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Cancer Killer] Reference

You "looked like a Chihuahua nipping at Bush's heels, instead of a strong force," as Democratic consultant David Axelrod puts it.    From Wordnik.com.  [Dems In The Dumps] Reference

Leda looks back over her shoulder at us as the swan grips her from behind while at the same time nipping at the nape of her neck.    From Wordnik.com.  [Leda and the Swan: Paul Gauguin] Reference

Fractious coalition partners were nipping at his heels, and he was slumping in the polls just 12 months before he was to run again.    From Wordnik.com.  [A SLOWLY SINKING SILVIO] Reference

Craig Ferguson, Fallon's CBS competitor, started out shaky, but his "Late Late Show" has been nipping at Conan's heels for a while now.    From Wordnik.com.  [Midnight Madness] Reference

Tonight the iron old man might well regard with pride the luxury and splendor that crowned a turbulent career begun in nipping poverty.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Spinner's Book of Fiction] Reference

How do we raise future generations to be the best they can be if we tell them that it's "normal" to live with terror nipping at their heels?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Living On Half Beam] Reference