How to Use nipple in a Sentence

nipple

noun
Definition of nipplenext
  • This isn't the first time Cyrus has freed the nipple in Paris this week.
    — Zizi Strater, Peoplemag, 25 Jan. 2023
  • Plus, she was shot twice — once in the nipple, the other in the back of her head.
    — Ronda Racha Penrice, The Hollywood Reporter, 12 Aug. 2022
  • Place the heel of one hand at the bottom of the breast bone (sternum) at the nipple line.
    — Nick Blackmer, Verywell Health, 20 Oct. 2023
  • First, the baby holds the nipple between their tongue and the roof of their mouth.
    — Stephanie Brown, Parents, 16 July 2024
  • Well, the model wore a shiny white sheer tank top that freed the nipple.
    — Liana Satenstein, Vogue, 16 Sep. 2019
  • So grab the night by its nipples and go flirt with someone.
    — SI.com, 24 Sep. 2019
  • Ann pressed the baby to her breast, and Olive saw the little thing, eyes closed, clasp on to the nipple.
    — Elizabeth Strout, The New Yorker, 29 July 2019
  • My pro tip for the khinkali: Stab the nipple with your fork and slurp the soup inside of the dumpling upside-down.
    — Soleil Ho, SFChronicle.com, 15 Aug. 2019
  • This is hardly the first time Bella has freed the nipple.
    — Carolyn Twersky, Seventeen, 16 Aug. 2021
  • Like Florence Pugh last week, the singer freed the nipple, choosing not to wear a bra or pasties with the look.
    — Alyssa Bailey, ELLE, 10 July 2023
  • In the slideshow, a heart emoji covers her nipple in three of the images.
    — Rachel Wolfe, WSJ, 26 Nov. 2021
  • Kristin had to bend the nipple of his bottle to pour milk into his mouth.
    — jsonline.com, 29 Apr. 2022
  • The baby will instinctively move up to the breast and try to find the nipple.
    — Annalisa Merelli, Quartz, 2 Oct. 2022
  • Ahead, the 15 best nipple covers to add to your cart ASAP.
    — India Roby, Women's Health, 28 Aug. 2023
  • The stick went into my chest an inch above my nipple, and the wound was about three inches deep.
    — Outside Online, 10 June 2022
  • The gauzy white fabric clung to the artist's body, freed the nipple, and ended in a skirt-like shape with an uneven train.
    — Kathleen Walsh, Glamour, 12 Sep. 2023
  • Others landed above the victim’s left nipple and in the right chest.
    — David Lyons, Sun Sentinel, 17 Sep. 2022
  • Sometimes the surgeon can spare your skin (and your nipples).
    — Adele Jackson-Gibson, Good Housekeeping, 25 Sep. 2019
  • The nipple bras went viral and flew off the virtual shelves.
    — Hedy Phillips, Peoplemag, 23 Apr. 2024
  • The front of the top has what appears to be beaded chains over a sheer fabric that just barely frees the nipple.
    — Kathleen Walsh, Glamour, 12 Mar. 2024
  • The most common symptom: changes to the nipple, Pariser said.
    — Erin Prater, Fortune Well, 16 Oct. 2023
  • At the same time, the nipple on Dickinson’s right breast was changing.
    — Korin Miller, Health.com, 27 Aug. 2020
  • Your nipple is like the central, and there are lots of small branches coming off it.
    — Rebekah Kuschmider, Health.com, 14 Oct. 2021
  • Doctors had to remove her nipples, pull in her skin and then sew around the nipples again.
    — Marissa Evans, Los Angeles Times, 16 Apr. 2024
  • However, in the new post, a small heart emoji is placed over her nipple in three of the photos.
    — Emily Tannenbaum, Glamour, 26 Nov. 2021
  • The clip in question shows Kent’s nipple for a second as her one-year-old breastfeeds.
    — Julia Alexander, The Verge, 1 Aug. 2019
  • Pass the tubing through one of the holes in the reservoir lid and attach it to the smaller ebb nipple below the mixing tray [C].
    — Daniel Kluko, Popular Mechanics, 7 Nov. 2020
  • To combat this, tilt the bottle at an angle that fills the entire nipple with milk.
    — Anita K. Henry, Parents, 29 June 2023
  • And that left me paralyzed from pretty much the nipples down.
    — Cat Jaffee, Outside Online, 9 Mar. 2023
  • Freeing the nipple is high fashion, yet somehow good ol’ cleavage is now few and far between.
    — Kleigh Balugo, StyleCaster, 11 July 2024

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