Nipped

Examples

• When it was done, he laid it aside and a dog walked sadly in and nipped it. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
• I dare say, if he had told me his doubts at the first I could have nipped them in the bud. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
• If they had known the various tender passages which had been nipped in the bud, they would have had the immense satisfaction of saying, I told you so. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
• He had nipped in the bud the possible meeting between Eustacia and her old lover this very night. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
• I've just heard of old Mrs. Mingott's stroke; and as I was on my way to the house I saw you turning down this street and nipped after you. Edith Wharton. The Age of Innocence.
• I leaned against a gate, and looked into an empty field where no sheep were feeding, where the short grass was nipped and blanched. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
• She was like some rare flower grown for exhibition, a flower from which every bud had been nipped except the crowning blossom of her beauty. Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.

Editor: Ricky