Example Sentences

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Party-goers are ravenous because they had been nibbling only on potato chips, popcorn, chocolate chip cookies and bar mix throughout the three-plus-hour awards show.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 25, 2019

He successfully bids on what he takes to be an Olmec jade mask, realizing only as the hammer falls that none of the authentic dealers had been nibbling.

From Time Magazine Archive

For most of the week, nearly half the population of England, hoping to forecast the results of Saturday's big-league matches, had been nibbling pencils, marking numerals and crosses on little printed slips.

From Time Magazine Archive

Capital newsmen had been nibbling at the story, but none had said straight out that it was on the President's desk.

From Time Magazine Archive

As he held the shivering creature, Dal was suddenly aware that something had been nibbling at the back of his mind for hours.

From Star Surgeon by Nourse, Alan Edward