Examples of nibbled

• 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.

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

• The only result has been that one industrialist "nibbled" but went away and there is no prospective development there at all.

• Those who are concerned with women workers know in how many ingenious ways wages are nibbled at, and this provision would make that illegal.

• The local authority ought not to have its powers nibbled into by this or any other body.

• I have had my hair nibbled in front.

• Here, again, we are faced with a problem at which, in my view, we have hitherto rather nibbled.