Narrowly defeated

Usage examples of nipped.

Much vegetation had been nipped by early frost, and storms blew in every other day, roaring across the Pan Woods to rot what little provender remained and force the unicorns to spend full as much time huddling underhill as they did foraging for food.

Just after Hamilton Place a bus went by, pulling away from the kerb, and I nipped on to it, giving him room to follow.

She nipped his tail as he opaled to the tree from which he had escaped.

His boat was the first up, and in a short time Soper put two irons into the whale, which almost instantly turned over on its back, threw its lower jaw open, and nipped her clean in two.

She nipped through some sort of gate twixt worlds just ahead of my front teeth.

She was mildly surprised at how quickly the unnipped Rathars settled down again, once each of the nipped Rathars had disappeared with silent disgrace into the deep water.

What he did not want them to see was the occasional look of pained surprise or the muffled squeak she uttered when she was not quick enough with her shield and the pebble or tiny dart he bespelled to fly at her reached her hand or cheek and nipped and stung.

Lucius Piso had changed togas with his loftiest lictor and nipped within the Porticus Margaritaria.

People criticized General Dyer but certainly his action at Amritsar had nipped what could have have been a nasty bit of trouble in the bud.

Angel on her back, Arian nipped her lips, her jaw then trailed down her neck to her breasts, where he tenderly ravished each nipple with circular ministrations.

Hearing his breath suck in, she nipped his bottom lip, then his chin, moving further down, taking the small sting of her bites away with concupiscent, open-mouthed kisses.

Sometimes a wounded steer would charge the canoa, and spill the huntsmen in the water, where the alligators nipped them.

Ferdy was on the point of suggesting, had not the Viscount nipped such friendly overtures in the bud by scowling upon his victim, offering him the curtest of apologies, handing him his card, climbing into his curricle, and driving off without another word.

Gray One was already teasing the older wolf mercilessly, romping around her grayed hindquarters and throwing himself on his back in the mud when Gray Shona nipped him smartly.

These most incredible dresses, Brandy tells me, the constructed ball gowns, the engineered evening dresses with their hoops and strapless bodices, their stand-up horseshoe collars and flaring shoulders, nipped waists, their stand-away peplums and bones, they never last very long.