nibble

Example Sentences

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“I’m praying for the guy, hoping it was just a nibble and he’s back in the water soon.”

From Los Angeles Times

Sometimes I would nibble on toast or dry cereal then try to go to sleep in the hope it would stay down.

From BBC

Sometimes, the simplest gestures — a cake on ice, a bowl of nibbles, the quiet readiness to receive someone — are what linger in memory, long after the fanfare has faded.

From Salon

They made little squirrel faces, nibbling away with imaginary buck teeth, while holding their paws—that is to say, hands—in front of them.

From Literature

As an afterthought, he said, “Does nibbling bother them?”

From Literature