nibble at
- Examples
This is a reminder that goats like to nibble at the branches. | Esto recuerda que a las cabras les gusta mordisquear sus ramas. |
The mouse started to nibble at the rope of the net and the lion was saved. | El ratón empezó a roer la cuerda de la red y el león pudo salvarse. |
When every evening their daughter told them she was going upstairs to pray, they never thought for a moment that she was actually using these long hours of solitude to nibble at stolen religious tomes like an enormous mouse at a block of cheese. | Cuando, al caer la noche, su hija les decía que subía a su habitación a rezar, nunca imaginaron que ella, en realidad, empleaba aquellas largas horas de soledad en mordisquear breviarios robados cual ratón gigante con una porción de queso. |
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