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Example sentences for: nibbling

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The NSC staff advised Berger that the United States had only been "nibbling at the edges" of Bin Ladin's network and that more terror attacks were a question not of "if "but rather of "when"and "where."
First, as noted earlier, we have been nibbling away at the deficit.
As everyone knew, Jack Laudermilk, a lawyer for Dunkin' Donuts, said it about a photograph in the New York Post of a mouse nibbling a doughnut in the window of one of the franchise's midtown Manhattan outlets.
I first suspected that Contact 's logic circuits might be fried when, early in the movie, Matthew McConaughey, as a roving Christian Zen master named Palmer Joss, strolls through a Costa Rican palapa nibbling from a box of Cracker Jack.
In movies like The Lost World , dinosaurs are not just predators but avengers, nibbling a prissy little rich girl here, chomping an environmentally insensitive CEO there.