How to Use nip and tuck in a Sentence

nip and tuck

adjective or adverb

• All of this year’s iPhones had a little nip and tuck along the edges.
  — Washington Post, 14 Oct. 2020
• The rear fascia has been nipped and tucked, and Ford has replaced the wide chrome bar with chrome trim accenting the lamps.
  — Tony Markovich, Car and Driver, 20 Mar. 2018
• The front and rear fascias have been nipped and tucked to reflect bits of the latest design language.
  — Tony Markovich, Car and Driver, 14 Feb. 2018
• The legislature then adopted the lower court’s maps with a few nips and tucks.
  — The Editorial Board, WSJ, 25 June 2018
• Those designs were given a few nips and tucks, a couple of injections of Botox, and a new wardrobe.
  — Charlie Theel, Ars Technica, 14 Dec. 2019
• View 6 Photos The front and rear fascias have been nipped and tucked to reflect bits of the latest design language.
  — Tony Markovich, Car and Driver, 13 Feb. 2018
• Kureck and his partner, Doug Jones, dug in, not for a simple nip and tuck but full-on reconstructive surgery.
  — Robert Ruffino, House Beautiful, 28 June 2019
• By nipping and tucking around the glass, designers have made screens longer, with more usable area.
  — Geoffrey A. Fowler, WSJ, 10 Sep. 2017
• His chestnut mop turned a luxuriant white long ago, but a few nips and tucks make his actual age — 68 — hard to discern.
  — Jay Cheshes, Town & Country, 6 Feb. 2013
• After so many nips and tucks, the interiors became little more than a patchwork of dark and dismal rooms.
  — Carolyn Weber, ELLE Decor, 5 July 2012
• Rather than nip and tuck and hope for the best, trust officials decided that a pragmatic if drastic belt-tightening will be the best way to face the future.
  — John King, SFChronicle.com, 7 May 2020
• With a few careful nips and tucks to the real story, the film presents Mary as the very first in a long line of moody, macabre young women who have churned their angst into popular horror and fantasy fiction.
  — Katie Walsh, latimes.com, 24 May 2018
• That state has been awarded to Trump, but several such as Pennsylvania, Michigan, and Wisconsin are nip and tuck, and lawyers are expected to be tapped in each by both sides.
  — Paul Bedard, Washington Examiner, 4 Nov. 2020
• And that’s somewhat literal because this edition includes several cuts of the film that emerged over an insane postproduction that forced Scott and his team to nip and tuck at the entire film.
  — Brian Tallerico, Vulture, 22 Nov. 2021
• So picture me, with an unexpectedly large amount of car to my left, trying to balance on the clutch as cars nip and tuck down a street not wide enough for two to drive abreast, with a two-foot-thick medieval wall just beyond my rearview mirror.
  — Mike McShane, Forbes, 17 Mar. 2022
• As draft language of the bill made its way through Congress, lawmakers friendly to billionaires and their lobbyists were able to nip and tuck and stretch the bill to accommodate a variety of special groups.
  — Justin Elliott, ProPublica, 12 Aug. 2021
• The Photoshop equivalent app has sent many of its millions of users across China flocking to plastic surgeons for real-life nips and tucks, and given rise to a cottage industry for Internet influencers and management agencies.
  — Clay Chandler, Fortune, 16 Dec. 2017
• The scenes of Deborah at a spa, recovering from a routine nip and tuck, brought to mind Phyllis Diller, who was revolutionarily transparent about her own cosmetic procedures.
  — Doreen St. Félix, The New Yorker, 7 June 2021
• The paper details doctors’ experience diagnosing and treating a patient who developed a rare but serious condition called fat embolization syndrome shortly after a routine nip and tuck.
  — Health.com, 25 Sep. 2017

Last Updated: 24 Jul 2024