How To Use Bit In A Sentence

Richardson, are proprietors of shows, and the berouged, bedraggled creatures who exhibit on the platform outside for their living. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 53, No. 327, January, 1843
I'm just a little bit caught in the middle. Life is a maze and love is a riddle, I don't know where to go, can't do it alone.
Sodium thiopental was used by most U.S. states as part of a lethal injection combination, but many have switched to an alternative drug called pentobarbital amid an ongoing shortage. The Seattle Times
The only seriously bad bit is that you become less agile and less strong. Times, Sunday Times
Our ambition is to build a prosperous, inclusive and outward-looking country. Times, Sunday Times

This is not good for anybody, except for a few curmudgeons and people who are embittered by nothing more than their own embitteredness.
Shake them to bits and you are destroying more than property. Times, Sunday Times
You see that you're undershooting and so, leaving the throttle as is, you attempt to flatten your descent path by lifting the nose a bit - and you enter the region of reverse command.
Such football titbits always float to the surface on third-round day which remains the best, most hectic, interesting and fun day of the season - and this one was even more frenetic than usual.
Imagine an anthropologist visiting a remote tribal village to study its inhabitants.
Divide half the mixture between 4 glass bowls, then sprinkle with a few fresh raspberries and a bit more crushed honeycomb. The Sun
We were a bit unlucky with the group. The Sun
My knee has swollen up and it is a bit stiff. The Sun
Commander Laurel D' ken smiled wryly as the blue haired officer said to Allison, ‘We'll need to nursemaid them a bit but I think they'd be able to manage well enough.’
When I ask if he spends money on anything really extravagant, he looks a bit uncertain. Times, Sunday Times
We drove a mile or so to Shipley Glen, a wooded hillside where a bit of family fairground fun awaited.
I thought he had a bit more sense, but no.
Methone is a bit bigger than Anthe, at 3km (1.8 miles) in diameter, it too was discovered by the Cassini imaging team in 2004. Tom's Astronomy Blog
Alaric got a bit annoyed at how long we took to leave becuase of the guinea pigs - I didn't know weather to be sympathetic or laugh when he got narky about it :/ Snell-Pym » Guinea Pigs!
It was a bit too clean and antiseptic to be really considered an evil lair.
The screen is a bit of overkill because the audience is not that far from the center of action on the hot shop floor.
Yes, the gearbox was a bit saggy and I was alarmed at how much pressure the brake pedal needed to do an emergency stop, but other than this, all was well.
Siva's devotees are forbidden to use drugs of abuse, such as cocaine, heroin, amphetamines, barbiturates, psychedelics and marijuana, unless prescribed by a licensed physician.
Hmm... a bit of Googling produces this short book review by Charles Solomon, which has the line: "As an essayist, Didion lacks the hyaline profundity of Susan Sontag or the classical erudition of Marguerite Yourcenar ... Making Light: Open thread 136
People were gulping down sundowners, women seemed to be, rather disinterestedly, sipping their drinks and picking up a bite.
The conference has become a bit of a squeeze this year. Times, Sunday Times
Her desired outcome was a bit of money to help with major structural repairs.
He is engaged in a bitter struggle with his rival to get control of the company.
Nonetheless, today's pic made me do a little bit of a double-take. Ryan Seacrest, Don Johnson And Larry King Are Three Amigos In Today’s Daily TwitPic » MTV Movies Blog
Why be all miffy and hissy and in a bitch-slapping mood guys, about not being in the military when you can do the work you like in prisons and police forces? See, it's not all about the election today.
The building used to look a bit fancier, and much more decorative, but it was never rebuilt.
You may be trying to invoke the ‘echos from the supernal world’ but they're everywhere and where-ever people say they're doing magic there's a bit of truth there.
Either the recession is biting harder than I had realised or a lot of people are confused about the boundaries between fact and fiction.
But that makes me sound a bit glib. Times, Sunday Times
The terrestrial planets in our solar system all have very specific spectroscopic fingerprints that tell us quite a bit about their atmospheres.
Lastly, I am a bit of control freak with a blistering pace when it comes to work.
I was always a bit arty-crafty. Times, Sunday Times
Paul's being a bit evasive about this job.
You do an estimate, and then it might cost a little bit more when you actually do the job.
I'm still feeling a bit cranially sprained, mind you, but the cat seems perfectly happy to be spending a snow day on the couch with me, watching S3 of Mission: Impossible. The Snowpocalypse Continues
A little bit overcast is actually a lot better than a sunny sky for us out there," Miller said. NHL players excited to go outdoors in Buffalo's chill
The film print is extremely clean with only a little bit of grain.
I stuck some in once when we were a bit short and the old bat threatened to stop it out of my wages.
Only a bit of string looped round a nail in the doorpost held it shut.
There were points where it could be a bit cheeky and fun. Times, Sunday Times
The panel with the all the Novas in battle is a little bit Sinestro Wars-esque. Nova #7 | Major Spoilers - Comic Book Reviews and News
I try to teach them a bit of Cockney but it's a lost cause. The Sun
Labour is naturally a bit shell-shocked finding itself out of office for the first time in 13 years. Times, Sunday Times
Anybody who has tried to follow a rigorous diet will know how easy it is to lapse back into bad habits. Times, Sunday Times
Last time I took my pulse, it was a bit fast.
On paper, we're a one-person-one-vote nation; in reality, we're more than a bit of an oligarchy, in which a handful of wealthy people dominate.
Unfortunately she has to work and then has class after work which is a bit of a bummer.
Flakes with concavities exhibiting steep, unifacial retouch were used to whittle or plane wood, and flakes displaying spurs were used to incise bone or antler.
She even has ambitions to return to college and major in interior design and business.
There were gobs of fat and sinewy bits throughout the whole rib cut - it was soooo wrong.
For high-definition video, the umi needs an Internet connection that can send, or upload, data at 1.5 megabits per second, higher than that of typical DSL or cable services. Cisco Launches 'Umi' Telepresence Box To Turn TVs Into Videophones
Mostly, however, she seems to be held in some kind of incommunicado status until they need a sound bite, and then they throw the power switch, download the text and out she spits it, with all the emotion of an automaton. Condi a Waste of Time
The best philosophy is to change your food habits to a low-sugar, high-fibre diet.
Work with your staff on understanding the regressive behaviors that may be exhibited.
If the adventurers try to reach location 14 they will have to pass scores of biting faces and clutching hands.
There was something captivating about this man, who dedicated much of his time to his artistic talents, his creative genius, and photographic exhibits.
It is true that, even at the time of the discovery of nitrobenzol, he pointed out the striking similarity of its smell to that of the oil of bitter almonds. The Art of Perfumery And Methods of Obtaining the Odors of Plants
Often the burial site is destroyed, or there is a differential representation of habitats.
So there is a perennial temptation to appeal to the idea of arbitrariness when discussing the alleged informational nature of some biological causation. Biological Information
He advised people against indulging in backbiting.
Lefebvre V, Peeters-Joris C, Vaes G. Modulation by interleukin 1 and tumor necrosis factor alpha of production of collagenase, tissue inhibitor of metalloproteinases and collagen types in differentiated and dedifferentiated articular chondrocytes. Recently Uploaded Slideshows
At fourteen he was sent to the University of Glasgow, where he came under the influence of Francis Hutcheson, and in 1740 he went up to Oxford as Snell exhibitioner at Balliol College, remaining there till 1746. Introductory Note
It was not a great botanic garden, but it was a lung in the midst of the crowded brick and stone of human habitation. THY BROTHER DEATH
An Augustinian nun in a brown-and-cream habit peered from the small hatch at the entrance. THE RIVAL QUEENS: A COUNTESS ASHBY DE LA ZOUCHE MYSTERY
Patients received a conditioning regimen that consisted of total body irradiation (1375 cGy in 11 fractions) with partial lung shielding, thiotepa (10 mg/kg), cyclophosphamide (120 mg/kg), and rabbit antithymocyte globulin (1.5 mg/kg). EurekAlert! - Breaking News
She has the ambition and talent to make something of herself.
I have been cohabiting with my partner for over five years.
Yet the Browns harbour no bitterness towards Waugh over the destruction of their business.
Rupert Grint is adorable as a wuss (his sleeptalking "tapdancing spiders" bit? so funny). Evolver Diary Entry
The orbit of the earth (or the circle which the sun seems to describe round the earth), is called the ecliptic, which is divided into twelve equal parts, called signs, and are distinguished by the following names and marks, [again, the symbols for the signs can be seen in the A Museum for Young Gentlemen and Ladies Or, a Private Tutor for Little Masters and Misses
Plantations of exotic non-native trees use up large quantities of water, which can have adverse affects on natural habitats.
He buckled them into place with a strap that dented my forehead, and gave me a wire to bite. Times, Sunday Times
French presses don't do this, so you get full-strength coffee flavor goodness without the bitterness that makes you want cream and sugar. What is the best coffee maker, percolator, for camping?
This is a habit I developed surrounded by thick-skulled idiots.
The face muscles set differently when we think we are observed; it becomes habitual. Times, Sunday Times
But it means you get this style of performance across the board that is people inhabiting characters rather than pretending to be people. Times, Sunday Times
These new forces have synchronized with the conscious policy of a certain sector of Canadian opinion which has persistently sought to detach us from that quarter of the world's orbit and the world's people comprised in the British federacy. Whither Canada
He infected mice and rabbits with Trypanosoma gondii, the parasite responsible for the dreaded sleeping sickness, then injected the animals with chemical derivatives to determine if any of them could halt the infection. The Emperor of All Maladies
There was a reason for this: unbeknown to the Reserve Bank, the major banks were working secretly and cooperatively to develop an alternative payment system that would substitute for direct debits.
However, outside of Africa, the major regions of Europe, east Asia, and the Americas exhibit three different patterns.
As it was evident he was in no mood for converse, Sybil, who seemed to exercise considerable authority over the crew, with a word dispersed them, and they herded back to their respective habitations. Rookwood
Of late, Wattal has been seriously looking outside the ambit of working with pop artists.
Even as large numbers were reintroduced to former habitats, it was not easy to prove that they were surviving and reproducing, the true measure of the project's success.
We ended up walking the streets with our suitcases and had to spend the night in a flea-bitten youth hostel, with lots of old men and young lads.
Bitterness is like cancer. It eats upon the host. But anger is like fire. It burns it all clean. Maya Angelou
Other handy bits and pieces like plasters, handkerchief, aftersun and a needle and thread can also come in handy, and don't take up too much room.
On Continental Europe no one ever pays a blind bit of notice to them.
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Big Brother will now know every financial tidbit about you, every ATM withdrawl, account deposit, creditcard charge, what you bought .... Senate's Wall Street bill in homestretch
Even among the veterans, there is no consensus: is it an economic area or something much greater with supra-national ambition? Times, Sunday Times
It came as ministers agreed a deal to end months of bitter wrangling. The Sun
One account is debited for the amount involved in any transaction and another account is credited.
This camp and sassy pop track comes complete with bitter and twisted lyrics and a hint of europop. The Sun
Not sure what a 'twofer' is, but if what you mean is that the '2050' scenario is ridiculous, then you're way into denial and every bit as susceptible to the blinkers of 'You Know You Are Right' as those you ridicule. John Terry’s sacking as England captain tells us something interesting...
A belief in it is not only not naïve; it is the essential precondition for civilized society, and our best defense against the arbitrary use of power.
It was a responsible situation he felt for a boy of thirteen, and he meant to do his very best to keep it now that he had been lucky enough to get it; in the far-off future, too, he saw himself no longer the van-boy, but in the proud position now occupied by Joshua as driver, and this he considered, though a lofty, was by no means an unreasonable ambition. Our Frank and other stories
Back in the '60s and '70s I listened to Gordon Lightfoot a fair bit when I wanted to take a break from the harder rock that was the staple of my listening.
Henry, ever the pragmatist, considered the farrago of his brother's recent attempted coup, which had ended in the destruction of the Jacobite clans, to have been the Stuarts' last chance.
The commission will seek to arbitrate a resolution before handing down a decision in late summer.
The people who inhabited America at that time were fighting an uphill battle. Times, Sunday Times
My beagle chases rabbits which is basically the same as pointing birds and I have shot over her and she is nowhere near gunshy. Why are dogs used for upland bird hunting considered gun dogs while Beagles and other non-birddogs are not?
Every so often a rabbit would make a desperate, lung-bursting bid for freedom, only to provide an easy target for the twelve-bores.
Wilder grew up loving Buster Keaton and Charlie Chaplin, but his great idol was famed director Ernst Lubitsch.
The Museum is looking to host exhibitions that celebrate major technological breakthroughs and the people behind them.
BDC is currently conducting a Phase two placebo-controlled proof of concept study with the tumor necrosis factor (TNF) inhibitor, etanercept, epidurally administered to a minimum of 40 patients with sciatica. THE MEDICAL NEWS
WHAT are the white fluffy bits on my moth orchid? The Sun
Insist that they send you a comprehensive list of all your direct debits and standing orders as soon as possible.
On the occasion of his 95th birthday, the city of Paris celebrates his work with an exhibition in the hall of the Hôtel-de-Ville, retracing 75 years of his career, with stories and reminiscences by the artist.
Forming the pivot of the exhibition is a large group of watercolours.
Each year one vicious habit rooted out,in time minght make the worst man good throughout.
The man who backbites an absent friend, nay, who does not stand up for him when another blames him, the man who angles for bursts of laughter and for the repute of a wit, who can invent what he never saw, who cannot keep a secret - that man is black at heart: mark and avoid him. Northern Rock - Pay staff a bonus with public cash.
What splendor and pulchritude, what symmetry in all things, what assets for the necessities of life have you not granted and assigned to this land and its inhabitants! Brotherhood of the Butterfly Net
An orbiting satellite picked up a distress signal from the ship's emergency beacon, standard equipment on all modern boats.
If you have more than the duty-free allowance or prohibited goods, you go through the red channel and declare them to a customs officer.
I was standing in some kind of wooded area and looking around Probably trying to find any distraction to keep me from going for my lecture and I did eventually find that tap-dancing squirrel but that's a story for another post and then somehow bits and pieces began to hit me. Archive 2005-02-01
He always had a habit of going down on one knee to block shots, so I thought I could fake him out of position.
They found striking similarities between Argonaute structures and proteins that happened to exhibit a particular kind of "cooperative binding" known as allostery. EurekAlert! - Breaking News
In contrast, farmed rabbit has a less pronounced flavour but is often more tender than its cousin. Times, Sunday Times
The exhibition is testimony to the common themes that bind them and yet the unmistakeably individual genius and style of each.
The 60 mostly uninhabited islands which comprise the group lie within an area only 20 miles square.
We want to defer the exorbitant, latter-day costs of all that energy binging, masquerading as democracy "preachifying"? Alec Baldwin: It's Time To Suck It Up And Pay Our Bill
The result is a species of amphitheatric arena, in which any of the dramatic exhibitions, that are so pleasing to this spectacle-loving nation, may be enacted. Recollections of Europe
Both groups had access to cuttlebone and fresh water ad libitum.
There can be few museums in the world whose range of exhibits includes a stuffed, 5ft-long, prehistoric fish and a pair of unworn, extremely expensive, blue cowboy-boots.
Nutty sweetbreads, bitter greens, gently brash shallots, and velvety chanterelles suffuse farfalle in well-oiled repertory.
Whose miniaturized and siliconized and transistorized little bits of magic lie at the very heart of your defensive systems? The Edge of Madness
This could provide funds for each son and so fulfil one of his personal ambitions. Times, Sunday Times
The most obvious of these powers is that of the demolition and clearance of housing that is deemed unfit for human habitation. Introduction to Social Administration in Britain
a loud "ribbit" and called time for people to shift seats. Memphis Commercial Appeal Stories
Could you just sing the tune of the hymn rather than the hundred and fifty-seven little twiddly bits?
Our world has changed; we must adjust our living habits as necessary to address the increased danger that the specter of terrorism brings.
This magnificent bit of luck, the finding of the calisaya, awakened in the susceptible bosom of Mr. Marcoy an ardent desire to explore for himself the site of its discovery. Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 11, No. 23, February, 1873
The essay is finally delivered and the exhibition is a success. The Times Literary Supplement
Environmental health officers hope the cotes will keep pigeons off the streets and discourage them from feeding on waste food and titbits offered by tourists.
Bruno had also bought calamine lotion and after our shower we patterned ourselves all over our bites like Aborigines painted for a corroboree.
The boundary between probity and fraud was much more difficult to draw in this area.
The photographs are on exhibition until the end of September.
The series in fact comprises only two: one in the form of a monk's habit and cowl, and one depicting a pin-striped business suit and tie.
The parties may authorize one or two persons to participate in arbitration proceedings on their behalf.
She never achieved her ambition of becoming a famous writer.
The captain continues the bitter commentary for a moment before calming himself down, saying he knows that Jenko wouldn't have wanted them to get angry about his death, and himself would have "rapped" to them about balance in the cosmos "and some nonsense about karma. Tomato Nation
The pistachio and lemon bites became almond flavoured when I made them, as almonds were all I had in the pantry.
Huge plantations of tea, coffee, and cardamom have emerged and taken over what was once prime elephant habitat.
The lion bit his trainer.
I think you could get aroundthe police strategy discussed above by Orin Kerr arrest the potential non-consenting guy first with this sort of blanket prohibition. The Volokh Conspiracy » Does Georgia v. Randolph Apply to Computers?
It traces the history of sugar and its social and economic impact on the island in a lively and informative exhibition. Times, Sunday Times
More than 50 cask ales, lagers and ciders will be on available, including Abbot Ale, Cumberland Ale, Titanic Iceberg and Sam Smith's Old Brewery Bitter.
Large and small white egrets, spoonbills, black cranes and the very rare lanner falcons are permanent inhabitants of the near-by, strictly protected bird reserve.
This can be very important since some fish will inhabit silty area in preference to hard bottoms.
As his reputation declined, the sculptor retreated to his studio and stopped exhibiting.
In other matches University made it two wins in a row with a 4-2 win over Whippersnappers, although University slipped back to their bad habits and defaulted the bottom two boards.
According to health experts, when an infected female mosquito bites a person, she may inject the worm larvae, called microfilariae, into the blood.
I wrote it early in 1945 and it was published in Wireless World in October, just after the war had ended, and it laid down the principles which now determine the world's communication system, the idea that you'd have satellites poised at such a height above the earth that they remained stationery in the sky and so-called synchronous, or geostationary, orbit. Great voices of science fiction
'Mmm, this cream cheese is delicious,' announced the girl next to me, biting into her croissant with vigor.
We have one great thing in common with Mars - both planets orbit the same star.
He comments that a patient might talk of a "shiner" whereas a doctor (holy of holies) would speak of a "periorbital ecchymosis," which is true only if you could imagine a doctor referring to cephalalgia instead of a headache or odontalgia instead of a toothache. VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol III No 1
The creature lives in the remote parts of the Upper Amazon and has a “particularly unpleasant habit of infesting humans”, the scientists say. New Species Of Nose-Dwelling Leech Discovered | Impact Lab
After the triumph followed the faire Parthenopeian _Leria_, with a lawrell crowne, accompanied with _Melanthia_, whose habites and voices represented the pride of Greece, [A] whereupon the great Macedon rested his head: She bare a splendent lampe, communicating the light thereof with hir companion, then the rest more excellent both in voice and song. Hypnerotomachia The Strife of Loue in a Dreame
Some of those nearest to him fell naturally into the habit of referring to him as “the King,” and in time the title crept out of the immediate household and was taken up by others who loved him. Mark Twain: A Biography
This has been done on numerous occasions in the past by the Senate with regard to appointments by governors, and does NOT involve judging "qualifications" (age, citizenship, and inhabitancy) which was limited in Powell v. McCormack. Blago Does All Us A Favor
At last, after wise deliberation of the concerns of either side, she assumes the office of arbitress which is offered to her by both parties.
Although the number of rural ponds is decreasing rapidly, garden ponds are gaining in popularity and are becoming increasingly important habitats for toads, says the trust.
`The habitation of the great unwashed ," she finally repeated, mumbling miserably. ANASTASIA KRUPNIK (3-IN-1)
The most important of the salts, formed by the combinations of the sulphuric acid, are, first, _sulphat of potash_, formerly called _sal polychrest_: this is a very bitter salt, much used in medicine; it is found in the ashes of most vegetables, but it may be prepared artificially by the immediate combination of sulphuric acid and potash. Conversations on Chemistry, V. 1-2 In Which the Elements of that Science Are Familiarly Explained and Illustrated by Experiments
A rare total eclipse of the moon will make your emotions a useful bit tougher and ambitions stronger. The Sun
Did you know that the green part of the horseradish plant was one of the five bitter herbs served on the traditional Passover seder plate during the reading of the Haggadah?
Scented candles, especially the industrial strength and size that many people light around the holidays, give off more than fragrance-studies show they produce tiny bits of pollution known as particulates that can inflame the respiratory tract and aggravate asthma, Dr. Sublett says. Msnbc.com: Top msnbc.com headlines
The Holy Alliance was the joint labour of an unfortunate man who had suffered a terrible mental shock and who was trying to pacify his much-disturbed soul, and of an ambitious woman who after a wasted life had lost her beauty and her attraction and who satisfied her vanity and her desire for notoriety by assuming the rôle of self-appointed Messiah of a new and strange creed. The Story of Mankind
Profound stupor associated with depression also responds to IV sodium amobarbital, thus permitting conversation between the patient and examiner, which often reveals depressive symptoms. The Neuropsychiatric Guide to Modern Everyday Psychiatry
Each day we make countless choices and live out deeply ingrained habits that all add up to a lifestyle. Christianity Today
Occidentali Noruagiæ Insula, quæ Glacialis dicitur, magno circumfusa Oceano repentur, obsoletæ admodum habitationis tellus, A briefe commentarie of Island, by Arngrimus Ionas
On the evidence of his latest exhibition, Miller is an artist who is past his best.
Suddenly, seeking high office, Liddy Dole was described as over-ambitious, chilly and nasty under the "syrupy" Southern accent. Caryl Rivers: Bad, Mad Michelle
It is becoming a taboo habit now and there are far more non-smokers than puffers.
Dr Dewes hoped the exhibition would be shown around the world once it closed in Christchurch in November.
Tomorrow night they will headline the venue - and take another step towards achieving their ambitions.
Some of it is maybe "agenbite of inwit," the Middle English phrase meaning remorse of conscience. Rectitude Chic
Ambition never dies until there is no way out.
Unfortunately, the anger was short-lived and a teensy bit of paranoia set in.
The part that you don't expect is the yellow flavoring on the interior called "lupulin" which is where the bitter for the beer comes from. TreeHugger
There were some bitter arguments before we ended it by text message. The Sun
However, the duck confit was cut up in cold bits and enmeshed in a strange, oily construction of mushrooms and haricots verts.
Fifty consecutive, nonobese, habitually snoring, otherwise-healthy children (age range: 6-9 years) and 50 age -, gender -, and ethnicity-matched obese children (BMI z score: 1.67) underwent an overnight polysomnographic evaluation, followed by a multiple sleep latency test the following day. Dr. Sharma’s Obesity Notes » Blog Archive » Is Sleep Apnea a Significant Problem in Sleepy Kids?
I clung onto bits of ice and tried desperately to remove the harness attaching me to the sledge.
The supporting stories have a much sharper bite, including a return to his painfully confessional autobiographical style.
The tree's coppicing habit, the way one specimen can have dozens of trunks, means that in places the pines look like a wall of bamboo, rather than relatives of the giant Araucariaceae that line the foreshores of Sydney beaches.
an arbitrational settlement
The following year police raided an exhibition of Lawrence's paintings and seized every canvas on which they could descry any wisp of pubic hair.
Its interest is that within it survive all the elements of a medieval forest: great timber trees, coppice woods, pollards, scrub, grassland and fen, deer and cattle, and a rabbit warren.
There is no law that prohibits the financial manager from introducing data which are not in the company accounts. Principles of Corporate Finance
It also has ambitions to broaden its product range and expand geographically. Times, Sunday Times
The Kuiper belt is an icy disk of debris orbiting the sun, beyond Neptune, and is the original home of many comets.
The author performed immunoprecipitation with immunodiffusion, using Petri dishes that contained 15 ml of 1.2% agarose in a barbital buffer.
I must learn to bite my lip.
For example, Heinrich's work with ravens shows that the carnivorous birds will store bits of meat only for the short term.

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