nit

Example Sentences

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But the Surge’s bylaws are clear that no nit be left unpicked, and so we have to quibble with his framing.

From Slate • Jan. 17, 2026

The key is using a nit comb to remove all the lice and eggs from the hair at the end of the treatment.

From Seattle Times • Sep. 6, 2023

If there’s a nit to be picked here, it’s one of pacing for a play in which a couple of sketches move a tad too leisurely.

From Washington Post • Sep. 19, 2022

But these guys are serious, and they’re not about to walk the plank just because the Coastal Commission picked a nit or two.

From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 15, 2021

Poor devil! see him owre his trash, As feckless as a wither’d rash, His spindle shank a guid whip-lash, His nieve a nit; Thro’ bloody flood or field to dash, O how unfit!

From The Complete Works of Robert Burns: Containing his Poems, Songs, and Correspondence. With a New Life of the Poet, and Notices, Critical and Biographical by Allan Cunningham by Burns, Robert