Nibbling

He managed to cure himself of his habit of nibbling his nails.

Tom is nibbling on a carrot stick.

While I am nibbling away, I listen to the news.

The mice kept nibbling at the cactus, no matter how much it pricked them and made them cry.

To a bone that complained that a dog kept nibbling him, he said: Well, you're so hard and I do not have anything else to do.

To a bone that complained that a dog kept nibbling him, he said: Sorry, you are so hard and I do not have anything else to do.

We are the only ones sitting outside a usually bustling piazza bar on the outskirts of Rome sipping mid-morning coffees — and, in my case, nibbling on a ciambella cake.

Benedito scolded his billy goat for nibbling on a neighbor's vegetable patch.

Benedito searched for his billy goat in the moonlight until he found it nibbling on a patch of clover.

Gabor was nibbling on some doritos.

Minute nibblings and rustlings broke the silence.

I send you back the two last sheets, because you bid me. I reserve my nibblings and minutiae for another day.

Meantime the penetration of Shantung by means of railway discrimination, railway military guards, continual nibblings here and there, will be going on.