Words similar to nibbling

Example sentences for: nibbling

How can you use “nibbling” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

First, as noted earlier, we have been nibbling away at the deficit.
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.
Republicans hadn't been "steadily nibbling away" at Brown's margins.
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.
The Post catches the financiers nibbling on pea pancakes topped with caviar, while at another party, the Journal spies a six-foot-high ice sculpture of an eagle bedecked with oysters, shrimp and lobster.