nipper

Example Sentences

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The nippier Leceile improved all last year and may be able to get away from these rivals.

From The Guardian • May 5, 2010

Popular pleasure shows itself in those hastening steps and brightened smiles encountered as the air grows nippier.

From Time Magazine Archive

It was a frosty morning, and ye waylaid the maister on his way to the school, and the tawse were nippier than ordinar' that mornin'.

From Bog-Myrtle and Peat Tales Chiefly of Galloway Gathered from the Years 1889 to 1895 by Crockett, S. R. (Samuel Rutherford)

I jumped on to it—had to—then jumped off it nippier still and, turning to the right, began to walk towards Birdie's dugout.

From Gallipoli Diary, Volume I by Hamilton, Ian, Sir

Do you think you can be a bit nippier in getting over the centreboard than you were last time.

From Priscilla's Spies by Birmingham, George A.