nipper

Example Sentences

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Above all, the nipper at The Oval reinforced what we knew beforehand.

From BBC • Aug. 5, 2025

My family recently got a new puppy, a strong-willed and mouthy but ultimately lovable little nipper.

From Washington Post • Oct. 25, 2021

Then she snipped away part of the hoof wall with a nipper.

From Washington Times • Feb. 20, 2015

As Charlie, Jack Costello is proficient but looks too sleek and pipes too politely for a nipper on the edge of starvation.

From The Guardian • Jul. 1, 2013

Step up an' take a nipper, sir; I'm dreffle glad to see ye"; But now it's "Ware's my eppylet? here, Sawin, step an' fetch it!

From Poems of James Russell Lowell With biographical sketch by Nathan Haskell Dole by Lowell, James Russell