nipping
Example Sentences
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Microsoft currently holds the rank of the third-largest U.S. company, but can it maintain its lead with Alphabet nipping at its heels?
From MarketWatch
Because Jofra Archer has that angle of nipping back towards the stumps, can he nip one away?
From BBC
Ratings-wise it is nipping at the heels of “The Late Show with Stephen Colbert.”
From Salon
Some polls now show the biggest of those groups, the Democratic Alliance, nipping at the heels of the party of Mandela for the first time, as local elections approach next year.
Pakistan had clear plans and executed them, constantly challenging England's fragile defences by nipping the ball into the right-handers.
From BBC
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
