How To Use Nippy In A Sentence
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On an unseasonally nippy May Tuesday, two women, a man and a young girl wheeling a baby's buggy, set about cracking open the votes in Kinsealy.
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The subject is arranged around the city/country axis - half the plays are twitchy, snippy, morally grey urban comedies, and the other half are la-la land everything-is-nice-in-the-countryside pastorals.
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I changed back into my normal clothes, and followed him outside into the nippy, early morning air.
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He-it's usually a he-gets the same satisfaction from rapidly double declutching through the gearbox of a 1953 Jaguar C-type and flicking around the gearstick on a nippy little 2009 Hyundai i10.
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‘I can take care of myself,’ said Melena in a snippy voice.
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It may prove smarter to be behind the wheel of a nippy, whippy hatch and thus have a greater chance of not getting into accidents in the first place.
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I've seen you for the past three days, and you've never gotten snippy like that before.
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However, beware of painting outdoors when the weather turns nippy.
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Instead, a brisk outing in the briny climate of Leith was called for with a nippy wind whipping up the Forth.
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Oh, and it's -5 out, which is kind of nippy for Embra.
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During his term he was often seen on the evening news in snippy exchanges with reporters or lecturing taxpayers to take their tax-hike medicine.
Deval Patrick's Charm Offensive
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I apologize for being unnecessarily snippy and for overlooking, misunderstanding or inadvertently mischaracterizing the arguments of opponents.
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The unnecessary use of any of the following words -- 'subliminable,' 'snippy' or 'recount' -- will result in an invitation not to return," she said.
Leader Of The Pack
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We took the label Nuk combined with my mother's name for it pippy and tried to get the girls to have a nippy.
Deliverance
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With chilly winds caressing the cheeks and pullovers being pulled out of the closet to protect oneself from the nippy winds, December has a magic and charm all its own.
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Your ability to articulate what matters to you, and speak up when you feel wronged, is what will keep your hard feelings from mutating into snippy competitive rage.
Carolyn Hax: Mulling marriage, she wants guarantees
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The 1.2-litre sounded confident when I tested it and was quite nippy around the small lanes.
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Feeling the swift, nippy morning winds from inland against my scaly hide, I shivered and took a brief glance at the icicles which had formed on the roofs before turning my head back.
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Then nippy forward Julianne O'Connell struck with a great goal which clinched victory for her team and a place in the final.
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Mayo got off to a poor start as in the opening minute of the game when Armagh corner forward John Garvan had the ball in the Mayo net as the Mayo full-back line were caught ball watching and allowed the nippy Armagh man in for a sweet finish.
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For years we whined about being the supporting characters on television shows: the wacky neighbor, the snippy coworker, the world-weary yet worldly-wise florist, the dog walker, the minty banker.
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That apart, this new Mini scores very impressively and if I were in the market for a car which is nippy in the city, yet very competent on longer country trips, it would top my list.
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This nippy new car has fold down rear seats.
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Around town, the vehicle always feels nippy and there is sufficient in reserve to undertake cross-country journeys without the slightest complaint.
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The girls were "snippy" to each other -- at least, Jess said they were, and Bobby declared she was one of the very "snippiest -- so there!
The Girls of Central High Aiding the Red Cross Or Amateur Theatricals for a Worthy Cause
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The wind is nippy but not unpleasant, but it's still cold for September.
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For a relatively nippy car, the fuel consumption is quite good, but don't try to squeeze any tall adults into the back.
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I smoked for a bit, but it was getting kind of nippy, so I went for a walk.
Cargo of Eagles
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The female dog reportedly had been "snippy" with a Metro officer and been pepper-sprayed.
'Snippy' German shepherd is sprayed with pepper at Metro
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I guess I'm just in a "snippy" mood all the way around.
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He related how he'd recently experienced a spot of technical bother when using his electronic key-fob thingamabob to open the car door of his nippy runabout.
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But the second date required me to go to Monte Carlo, and tooling up the coast from Nice in the respectably nippy convertible Molloy had hired for me, it was hard not to feel part of a special club.
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He got snippy if too many people started hanging around.
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It is not a car for long journeys, but it was nippy enough around town.
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At right full forward was the nippy Jimmy Doyle, a great man to take a score while full forward went to George Darcy, Conway Park, a great servant to the club as player and administrator.
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Sometimes the euphoria can last up to two months or so, then those who have been held captive become more irritable and 'nippy'.
Paul and Rachel Chandler: a period of decompression is needed
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They are small, nippy, cheap and frugal.
Times, Sunday Times
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If only Dakin would walk back into the Sycamore on her own two snippy little feet and announce that she'd had a bout of amnesia.
C B GREENFIELD - A LITTLE MADNESS
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‘The car was actually quite nippy and responsive at times,’ he said.
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While it may not be as nippy or as thrilling as the 911, the car has a he-man feel on the road that I like.
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The new Honda Jazz is smart, nippy, surprisingly roomy - and it's got an ashtray you can pull out and pass around
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It was a bit nippy but he was only wearing a T-shirt.
Times, Sunday Times
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The nippy corner forward was involved in several movements that led to scores.
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However, on observing the details of the car on the web, I discovered that the nippy little sports car had turned into a monster beast four-wheel drive.
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Still, the weather's turning nippy; the nights of sitting outside at lake houses and on porches have ended.
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Since Friday weather in many parts of the Nilgiris has become nippy on account of the South-West monsoon.
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Paul says he'll leave me to it, lends me his coat as it's turning nippy, and cabs it back to the hotel.
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This incident has been all over the media, who have variously called Obama "snippy" (FOX) and "testy" (CBS).
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I've gone over the text many times, and I don't see how someone could think that I'd replied with only a single, snippy, off-topic paragraph.
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This little green-eyed troublemaker is sneaking up all over my relationship, through narrowed eyes, snippy retorts, and generally malicious thoughts.
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The nippy, adept forward's haul of six points, which included two superb second-half efforts, played a substantial part in the north Roscommon club's four-points victory.
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Those little jewel cases come in mighty handy on nippy mornings.
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Our dog has border collie and blue heeler in her and was nippy and mouthy when she was younger.
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The good news was the tram, all 40 metres of it, looked well, performed well and could well live up to its promise to be a modern, efficient, comfortable, nippy form of public transport in a car-strangled city.
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The nippy Australian was at the heart of Motherwell's best moves.
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The operator was kind of snippy yes, as if she had never done drugs, hated kids and lacked the emotional distance despite her apparent lack of empathy to think on her feet.
Set the record straight (revised)
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BIT nippy, isn't it?
The Sun
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Not only does it muck up your commute, the nippy weather can also wreak havoc with your skin.
The Sun
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Around the city and the suburbs, where 30 mph and 40 mph speed limits rule, it is delightfully nippy and full of character.
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The 1.4i and 1.6i 16V both offered spirited performance although I actually preferred the nippy 1.4i which had plenty of torque and power.
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He was snippy, feisty and reminded me of an argumentative drunk who challenges the whole bar to a fist fight.
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This nippy new car has fold down rear seats.
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Perhaps the treasurer was unhappy at having to stand for the interview, or perhaps the night was a bit nippy and he had to shuffle around a bit.
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Adding to the flavour are a range of ingredients which include syrupy jaggery to tangy ginger, thin slivers of nippy lemon to long slices of luscious mango, besides assorted grams and pulses in dozens of tasty forms.
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Where the morning had been cold and nippy, the sun had turned the air hot and arid from high in the sky where it beat down on the earth relentlessly.
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They just giggle and are snippy and mean and sort of dumb.
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With the sea fret and a keen northerly wind by then it was getting a little nippy.
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Well, they can be a bit nippy.
The Sun
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I didn't want to engage with him, but I was just too weak to extricate myself from the conversation, and, accordingly, got a little snippy.
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The 28-year-old's performance even won praise from Windies captain Chris Gayle, who labelled the nippy left-hand speedster the most potent of the Australian attack to feature in Perth.
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Then nippy forward Julianne O'Connell struck with a great goal which clinched victory for her team and a place in the final.
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As it’s still kind of nippy at night, I thought the bottle of Scotch might be effective heating … especially if you get bored lighting fires every evening.
The Pursuit of Happiness
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The 28-year-old's performance against the West Indians won praise from Windies captain Chris Gayle, who labelled the nippy left-hand speedster the most potent of the Australian attack to feature in Perth.
Daily News & Analysis
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My date's chauffeur had to wait for hours on an uncharacteristically nippy September night while we discussed the twin towers disaster.
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Two quick fire points from nippy wing forward Michael Browne Jnr tied the sides in the first five minutes of the second period.
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Earning my crust with The Orcadian and writing nippy stories about my friends.
LOOKING FOR THE SPARK
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The girl was outside at the time, watching it go down and feeling the air grow colder, nippy at first but soon so cold that it numbed the girl's fingers.
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It was only the nippy weather that stopped the crowds dancing in the streets.
Times, Sunday Times
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Mr. Naipaul's "picong" remarks range from silly putdowns -- such as when he said of one of Queen Elizabeth's grandchildren that she had the face of a criminal -- to snippy but revelatory show-off remarks, like his comment that the fatwa against Salman Rushdie for "The Satanic Verses" was an extreme form of literary criticism.
The Man Behind the Man of Letters
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We spent about an hour there, snapping Zoe action photos and playing, but it was a little too windy and nippy for us, so we bagged it and headed home.
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a nippy cheese
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We hitch a lift in a Lynx, the sports car of military helicopters: small, agile and nippy.
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I hope you are aware that the entire class can hear your snippy comments.
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The nippy corner-forward, scorer of his side's first point after 17 seconds, slammed the ball convincingly past St Mary's net-minder Nicky Walsh.
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Got a bit nippy by dessert, so we moved inside.
Times, Sunday Times
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It could get suddenly nippy in the evenings.
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Mother, I have never heard that person be snippy to you or to anyone else.
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The girl was outside at the time, watching it go down and feeling the air grow colder, nippy at first but soon so cold that it numbed the girl's fingers.
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The engine is nippy through the gears and cruises happily at the motorway limit with four up and luggage.
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Darn right they are scared of Webb, when Bush got snippy with Senator Webb over his response to GW's question about his sons well being Webb told a reporter he should have "slugged" the man.
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Slotted into the Elise it turns the nippy, lightweight roadster into a car capable of delivering supercar levels of excitement.
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The only goal came in the 75th minute when Seamus Gray released Joey Nolan and the nippy winger went through to score in style.
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The priest and the mother are not impressed, and Walter gets all snippy, which is awesome.
Television Without Pity
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| Reply | Permalink but during her questions to Obama at his press conference, did anyone notice her reaction to the weather over there ... it was rather "nippy" or least her nipples reacted that way.
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I don't know Snippy, I am smelling some low self-esteem here.
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At the poolside barbeque you can catch the lingering aroma of chargrilled kebabs in the nippy winter air.
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I was kind of pissy and snippy in this thread and you responded seriously.
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His third arrived when nippy corner forward Andy Devine went down under a tackle in front of the goal.
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This made for a unique handling experience - nippy without ever being fast, fun without ever being safe, stiff, rigid, brittle and staunch.
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On the road, this proved to be a particularly nippy car about town, pulling off from junctions with a sprightly performance.
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Then I called the snippy female judge "Tomato Face" and left.
Unclebob Diary Entry
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We hitch a lift in a Lynx, the sports car of military helicopters: small, agile and nippy.
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The nippy air seems to be good for productivity: the average household income exceeds 60,000.
Times, Sunday Times
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The eggs were just poached, the potatoes hollowed out and filled with three different oozing cheeses - a nippy cheddar, a soft goat and salty Roquefort, I'd guess.
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Mr. Quinlan is not taking personal calls during business hours," she said in this snippy voice.
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After Barry Meehan crossed from the left the nippy striker fired past O'Hare - though the shot did take a deflection.
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He can swing the ball late and is nippy enough to worry batsmen on a track that has pace and bounce.
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As early as the first minute, Donnie Brennan had the ball in the CBS net after Willie Murphy set up the nippy centre half forward for the score.
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The air was a bit nippy, but not cold enough to bite at her skin.
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They did what the wanted when they wanted, they said whatever they pleased and they tore others down faster than you could figure out your own comeback to the snippy replies.
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The water was extremely nippy and when we got out the air seemed even colder.
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That aside… man, I was pretty snippy today, wasn't I?
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It will be a pretty nippy big car too: target 0-62 mph is 9.9secs.
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You know Snippy you are like a cartoon character.
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Truth is, when the weather is nippy and you need something warm and comforting, nothing beats meatloaf for taste.
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That may sound a bit nippy, but any negative temperature is relative.
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Because if you are not received nicely, and they are sort of snippy to you, you are not going to enjoy your food, are you?
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a nippy fall day
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They did manage to lead 0-4 to 0-3 at the break with nippy wing forward Patrick Hickey getting a brace.
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On summer nights it's great to sit outside and if it gets a bit nippy they light the gas heaters.
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Instead, inspired by the stuffed cabbage rolls eaten at Christmas in the Balkans and Eastern Europe, I use blanched savoy cabbage leaves to wrap my parsnippy parcel, adding a touch of festive greenery to the dish.
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One's got height and a physical presence - the other is shorter and a bit nippy.
The Sun
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It's chunky and nippy and it's perfect for whizzing round the country roads.
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The Meath attack always carried a threat to the home defence, the visitors mixing big, strong, mobile forwards with smaller, nippy score-takers.
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My response is that it seems that Paige is being snippy.
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The gardener got quite snippy and started lecturing me about the law and asserting that she had a legal right to cut back the trees in her yard.
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And of course they're being pretty snippy with each other from time to time.
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The nippy air seems to be good for productivity: the average household income exceeds 60,000.
Times, Sunday Times
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Sometimes it gets a bit nippy.
Times, Sunday Times
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The air was nippy but not overly cold, but she had decided to stay in her car and wait for him.
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The nippy corner forward enjoyed the proverbial field day, his goal and five points from play being the icing on the cake.
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He wondered if he'd be in her nippy story and whether he'd be relieved or miffed if he was not.
LOOKING FOR THE SPARK
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He is nippy and small and much quicker.
The Sun
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Some people need to read some history before they get snippy.
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It is a nice car to drive, nippy, and quite agile, and it would be fine as a second car or school-run car.
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His Isetta, which means ‘little Iso’ after his company Iso SpA, had enough room for two occupants and provided nippy city motoring at up to 80 miles per gallon.
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Strangers may think of you as aloof and arrogant; only those closest to you know that beneath your snippy exterior lies a core of red hot rage.
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Darryl Callaghan found David Cantley and the nippy centre stepped off his right foot, found a gap, and burst into open space.
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IT isn't just Britain where the weather is a bit nippy at the moment.
The Sun
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Sure, first you get snippy with me for telling you and now you yell at me for not telling you sooner.
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Have a stash of soft drinks chilled and, if the weather's nippy, a mulled cider simmering in a slow-cooker.
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They were great little cars, nippy and lots of fun.
Times, Sunday Times
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‘Free country,’ Jesse answered, his voice more than a little snippy.
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I bet you went online and pushed the old guy's face in the mud huh Snippy?
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The Honda has been praised for being nippy and fun, while the Mazda Tribute has been criticised for being noisy and exhibiting a slight tendency to wallow.
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In the replay the nippy corner forward was once again a vital cog in the Deise machine as they booked their place in their second successive Munster hurling decider against Cork.
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Clarecastle got the start they needed when nippy corner forward, Derek Quinn, pointed after just twenty seconds.
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Quincy, whose shrewd little soul easily divined that this equable warmth of manner, which she dubbed snippy condescension, sprang from affection for Dick and Mrs. Percival and not for herself.
Jewel Weed
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I have seen people come back for seconds before some people have had firsts, and when you point this out to them they get snippy about it.
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It has been praised for being nippy and a real hoot through the corners.
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But the attack will miss the goal poaching capabilities of nippy corner-forward Billy Sheehan.
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What they have now is maybe what they did not have traditionally they have very nippy forwards.
