Examples of nibble

• The word byte brought forth nibble or nybble (half a byte) and gulp (two bytes), neither of which are much used, however.

• With iterative activities (24c) such as nibbling, to take a nibble denotes one subevent of nibbling (a semelfactive).

• In practice, nibble is often used in conjunction with the string combinator.

• A cautious developer will carry out simulations of particularly risky approaches - and perhaps nibble fingernails when the system goes live.

• The basic method is related to nibble methods used to colour graphs having 'near-disjoint' cliques.

• They declined, however, to eat pupae of any species, though they nibbled at them occasionally.

• It nibbled at the boundaries of what respectability might want to construct as private.

• However, slowly growing rural populations are likely to nibble away at any land that has the potential for crop production, which gives higher returns per hectare.

• Competitive markets abolish themselves, which is perhaps why the government stuffs the private sector's mouth with gold - to keep it nibbling around the edges and providing 'competition' for electives.

• The stalemate is occurring in the centre and the nibbling is taking place on the flanks.

• At least they nibble away at the monstrous international monopoly which airlines have managed to establish.

• They have simply nibbled at the fringes of the problem instead of tackling it head on.

• I consider that it is only nibbling at the problem of the highways throughout the country.

• I know that if one allows nibbling into the green belt one may slightly reduce the amenities of these places for those living there already.

• It takes only a tiny midge nibble at the edge of the current farming crisis.