nippy
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On a nippy Monday night at the Zebulon in Frogtown, a man wearing a Jason Voorhees T-shirt steps onto a purple-lighted stage and stands next to a drum set.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 9, 2025
"Here you find luxury cars that you don't even see in Europe," joked Moustapha from the wheel of a nippy little Suzuki.
From Barron's ● Oct. 21, 2025
Diana Houston said she got "nippy fingers" as she took this picture of moonrise at Loch an Eilein near Aviemore on Boxing Day.
From BBC ● Dec. 27, 2023
Schiff’s rally, held on a nippy, mostly overcast morning, marked the start of a two-week statewide tour, with stops to include San Diego, Sacramento, Fresno and San Francisco.
From Washington Times ● Feb. 11, 2023
Stella and Jojo nodded solemnly and headed out into the nippy, sparkling morning.
From "Stella by Starlight" by Sharon M. Draper
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The nippier Leceile improved all last year and may be able to get away from these rivals.
From The Guardian ● May 5, 2010
Popular pleasure shows itself in those hastening steps and brightened smiles encountered as the air grows nippier.
From Time Magazine Archive
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I jumped on to it—had to—then jumped off it nippier still and, turning to the right, began to walk towards Birdie's dugout.
From Gallipoli Diary, Volume I by Sir Ian Hamilton
It was a frosty morning, and ye waylaid the maister on his way to the school, and the tawse were nippier than ordinar' that mornin'.
From Bog-Myrtle and Peat Tales Chiefly of Galloway Gathered from the Years 1889 to 1895 by S. R. (Samuel Rutherford) Crockett
Do you think you can be a bit nippier in getting over the centreboard than you were last time.
From Priscilla's Spies by George A. Birmingham
On a recent trip to Japan, the press minibus wasn't the nippiest, its engine squealing to keep up with the slick Mercedes of the prime minister a dozen or so vehicles ahead.
From BBC ● Jun. 9, 2023
Bowe is among the most prolific wingers in Europe and the rapidly emerging Gilroy is among the nippiest, having made an eye-catching start to his Test career last month.
From The Guardian ● Dec. 14, 2012