NICK in a Sentence

Learn NICK from example sentences; some of them are from classic books. These examples are selected from a corpus with 300,000 sentences, including classic works and current mainstream media. Some sentences also link to their contexts.
14 example sentences for NICK, such as:
1. He had arrived just in the nick of time.
2. Giles nicked his chair into position with a jerk.
3. When I last saw him he looked in pretty good nick.
4. The police nicked me for carrying an offensive weapon.
5. His generous endowment of the laboratory came just in the nick of time.
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Animal Farm by George Orwell
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 Meanings and Examples of NICK
nick
 n.  (British slang) a prison
 v.  divide or reset the tail muscles of
Classic Sentence:
1  My dear fellow," said Debray, "you have come in the nick of time.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre Dumas
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 53. Robert le Diable.
2  So, the Spider, doggedly watching Estella, outwatched many brighter insects, and would often uncoil himself and drop at the right nick of time.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In Chapter XXXVIII
3  "You found me just in the nick of time," she said.
The Jungle By Upton Sinclair
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 28
4  In the very nick of time she lifted her great moon-eyed head and bellowed.
Between the Acts By Virginia Woolf
Context  Highlight   In Unit 9
5  He had arrived just in the nick of time.
Les Misérables 3 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 8: CHAPTER XXI—ONE SHOULD ALWAYS BEGIN BY ARRESTING THE VICT...
6  "I had a full beard to show you girls," said Ashley, ruefully rubbing his face where half-healed razor nicks still showed.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XV
7  Giles nicked his chair into position with a jerk.
Between the Acts By Virginia Woolf
Context  Highlight   In Unit 4
8  Miss La Trobe nicked the lock and hoisted the heavy case of gramophone records to her shoulder.
Between the Acts By Virginia Woolf
Context  Highlight   In Unit 12
9  Hougomont viewed on the map, as a geometrical plan, comprising buildings and enclosures, presents a sort of irregular rectangle, one angle of which is nicked out.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER II—HOUGOMONT
10  Giles, nicking his chair into its notch, turned too, in the other direction.
Between the Acts By Virginia Woolf
Context  Highlight   In Unit 7
Example Sentence:
1  He fired a grenade launcher into a rock on the shore and received a nick from the flying rock.
2  His generous endowment of the laboratory came just in the nick of time.
3  When I last saw him he looked in pretty good nick.
4  The police nicked me for carrying an offensive weapon.