Example Sentences

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He currently is nibbling around the edge of judicial authority: testing it to see how stiff the opposition will be.

From Salon • Mar. 20, 2025

Do you suspect that death is nibbling away at your form, even as you walk and breathe?

From New York Times • Oct. 26, 2022

Pony is girlish, anxious and so itchy it’s like something unknowable is nibbling away at her.

From Seattle Times • Jun. 14, 2017

The rapid rise of apps such as Quip, Haiku Deck, Prezi, Paper, Smartsheet, Good and Evernote, not to mention Google Apps, is nibbling away at the Office franchise.

From Reuters • Mar. 13, 2014

Then a soft voice cried from the room,  "Nibble, nibble, gnaw,  Who is nibbling at my little house?"

From Household Tales by Brothers Grimm by Hunt, Margaret