nibbling

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• It was a culture nibbling on the genial jingoism of Norman Vincent Peale and being made somewhat uncomfortable by Adlai Stevenson.

• This “double whammy” of predation and competition enables jellyfish to cripple a food chain by essentially nibbling at its ankles.

• The man who wrote about hulking linebackers nibbling melon in the Texas dusk.

• In the Cavour high school in central Rome, mice run through the halls, nibbling on open wiring and nesting in the lockers.

• The more perfectly the star in question feeds the pre-existing stereotype of foie gras-nibbling limousine liberalism, the better.

• But Brindle tarried behind and foraged for her supper by nibbling the grass from the overgrown dooryard.

• Kano pensively lifted a plum upon the point of a toothpick and began nibbling at its wrinkled skin.

• He kept on pulling at one twig after another with his trunk, nibbling and wasting everything.

• "Master Colombaik feared you had been nibbling the goods on the way," one of the young tanners observed with a laugh.

• A slight greeting on the ends of her lips, some hurried words, and she returned to the noble battalion nibbling vigorously away.