Nick used in a sentence

Nick in a sentence as a noun

Ugly nick-nacks, beat up plastic cups, dated books no one wants to read.

The restaurants were hardly lean... but the software was one programmer and me.-- nick

Gamblers focus on the potential profits and get high on how their luck evaded fate in one nick of time, traders focus on preservation of capital.

Nick in a sentence as a verb

In the derivatives world, there's a saying for trying to bet against highly unlikely events with catastrophic risk for small gains: "picking up nickels in front of a steamroller.

" The issue is when you pick up enough nickels and watch for the steamrollers vigilantly first few times, you grow complacent and think that you are the master of nickel pickers and steamrollers are slow mofo's.