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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."
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.
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.
First, as noted earlier, we have been nibbling away at the deficit.
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.