How To Use Bite In A Sentence
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People were gulping down sundowners, women seemed to be, rather disinterestedly, sipping their drinks and picking up a bite.
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On arriving in Britain she found herself to be a virtual slave to Dunlop, who exhibited her to curious Europeans who were eager to view Baartman's steatopygous buttocks and genitalia.
ANC Daily News Briefing
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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
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Work with your staff on understanding the regressive behaviors that may be exhibited.
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He buckled them into place with a strap that dented my forehead, and gave me a wire to bite.
Times, Sunday Times
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One account is debited for the amount involved in any transaction and another account is credited.
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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.
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The people who inhabited America at that time were fighting an uphill battle.
Times, Sunday Times
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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.
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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.
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The 60 mostly uninhabited islands which comprise the group lie within an area only 20 miles square.
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Bruno had also bought calamine lotion and after our shower we patterned ourselves all over our bites like Aborigines painted for a corroboree.
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The pistachio and lemon bites became almond flavoured when I made them, as almonds were all I had in the pantry.
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According to health experts, when an infected female mosquito bites a person, she may inject the worm larvae, called microfilariae, into the blood.
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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
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Some of it is maybe "agenbite of inwit," the Middle English phrase meaning remorse of conscience.
Rectitude Chic
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The supporting stories have a much sharper bite, including a return to his painfully confessional autobiographical style.
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I must learn to bite my lip.
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Only 30 years old, he died of yellow fever, transmitted by a mosquito's bite.
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Ultrastructural examination failed to detect viral inclusions, although the tissue exhibited a sizable degree of postmortem autolysis.
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The young ladies of the public relation are too inhibited to laugh freely.
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Lacy argued that he was misled by Stello when the arbiter pumped him out at second during an apparent steal attempt.
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He had a rather big nose and seemed to have an overbite.
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The arbiter device receives requests for data transfers from the master devices and selectively transmits the requests to the slave devices.
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River smallmouths bite any number of baits but show the most enthusiasm for hellgrammites, the larvae of dobsonflies.
Rivers of Bronze
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These accounts were debited for the expenses, with the corresponding credit to the cash account.
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An old dog bites sore.
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The plan will also position the Cassini orbiter farther away during that descent.
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(Under the Indian constitution nontribal people are prohibited from directly acquiring land in certain parts of the country, so the government must obtain it on their behalf and sell it to the companies.)
India's Dirty War
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The bite valve has no shut-off mechanism, so it's more apt to leak if accidentally squeezed.
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Of course the 'nester' or 'punkin roller,' as we contemptuously called the small farmer, began sifting in here and there in spite of our guns, but he was only a mosquito bite in comparison with the trouble which our cow-punchers stirred up.
Cavanaugh: Forest Ranger A Romance of the Mountain West
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Can nonstandardized bitewing radiographs be used to assess the presence of alveolar bone loss in epidemiologic studies?
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(Soundbite of music) DAVIES: If you're just joining us, our guest is actor Michael Caine.
Michael Caine Reflects On His 'Hollywood' Career
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I took a big bite, put it back on the table and left it to rot throughout the night.
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Apyrase, an enzyme in tick saliva, may maintain blood flow into the bite by stimulating local vasodilation and preventing platelet aggregation.
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A double impression 'bite' is made, allowing both the shape of the teeth to be cast and the occlusion to be fixed.
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The Chief of Navy, VADM Chris Ritchie, said he was determined to eliminate the use of prohibited drugs in the navy.
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A boring-sounding penne dish, tossed with crisped bits of pancetta (the unsmoked Italian bacon) and a basil-flecked cream sauce, turns out to hold interest down to the last bite.
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These nine were, according to the barbarous practice of those kind of people, marooned, that is, set on shore on an uninhabited island.
Lives of the Most Remarkable Criminals Who have been Condemned and Executed for Murder, the Highway, Housebreaking, Street Robberies, Coining or other offences
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Chop the potato into bite-sized pieces.
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Her bite marks were still visible on his arm, bluer, inkier, darker than his tattoo.
Beard
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Anyway, the most obvious distinction is that the sociopath would presumably remove the implant if he could, while most of us would not want to anaesthetise the agenbite of inwit, if this were somehow possible.
Not Lovely, Lovely Ludwig Van!
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The flat surfaces are then applied to the snake bite.
JOSIAH THE GREAT: The True Story of The Man Who Would Be King
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And I was wondering whether you'd bite my head off, or blaspheme at me, so I took Bev's advice.
RESCUING ROSE
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Tsetse flies are carriers of trypanosomes - the parasites transmitted by their bites, which cause sleeping sickness in men and cattle.
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He's my favorite because when he adjusts my mouthguard/biteplate/plastic thang, he makes me bite down on the tasty toxic plastic he adds to it from time to time.
Nspblues Diary Entry
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They bite the dust with lead in their bellies.
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I let just one mosquito bite me and watched while it drew blood from my arm.
The Sun
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And then there's the absolute joy and freedom of letting your body move uninhibitedly to the beat, and flexing muscles you never knew existed!
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Red squirrels exhibited a similar breeding cycle to that of northern flying squirrels.
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But a tiny new system designed to monitor astronauts' health promises to take less of your blood than a mosquito bite.
Times, Sunday Times
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I made him what I thought were several tempting offers, but he wouldn't bite.
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If your horse bites, put a drop noseband around his mouth.
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A cenobite is usually a monk in a monastery, as opposed to an anchorite, who is a monk living alone (also called an ‘eremite’ or ‘hermit’).
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The female mosquitoes become the bloodsuckers, and they use their long proboscis to bite other animals and feed on their blood.
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(Soundbite of kalimba) Mr. BERGMAN: And then there's another one, this is the - the one that I was just telling you about, the street sweeper tines from the Eastern Market, and this one is very sort of strange instrument, but it's not one that we use on too many songs.
NOMO: The Sonic Maelstrom Of 'Ghost Rock'
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She won't be hyped, marketed, trendified, commodified, put in a box - and even though she probably loathes sound-bites as well, she has a way with words when describing her fierce individualism.
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I know I will fail if I bite off more than I can chew.
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Two of them stayed on the top, suffering from frostbite.
Times, Sunday Times
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INSKEEP: Was that because studio time is expensive or because� (Soundbite of laughter) Mr. AUERBACH: That's because, you know, we're cheap.
BlakRoc: The Black Keys Do Hip-Hop
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Expense of formation Neither a sole trader nor a partnership is inhibited by legal formalities when commencing trading.
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After Kent's first bite of crisp crusted, light, opened crumbed baguette he said, "You bought this.
Meet Norton
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Plees to cummin dere wif her, you and ebbrywun else is inbited.
EENY, MEENY, - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger?
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Commander of the Faithful, Abd al-Malik bin Marwan, who hath heard tell of the lord Solomon, son of David (on whom be peace!) and of that which the Most High bestowed upon him of supreme dominion; how he held sway over Jinn and beast and bird and was wont when he was wroth with one of the Marids, to shut him in a cucurbite of brass and, stopping its mouth on him with lead, whereon he impressed his seal ring, to cast him into the sea of Al – Karkar.
The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
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One of the largest of the latter is the pine marten, which is still found in remote and uninhabited parts of our country.
Chatterbox, 1906
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Shuffling to her classroom, she was quickly joined by her best friend Sara, who was also over bundled to help dull the harsh bite of the December wind.
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Selling fireworks should be prohibited other than for the few days immediately before November 5, unless the authorities give special dispensation for other events.
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Parking is strictly prohibited between these gates.
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This power of control has not, however, inhibited the developments in the character of oral questions above described.
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In appearance and atmosphere he was a strapping big college man, smooth-faced and easy-mannered, clean and simple and wholesome, with a known record of being a splendid athlete and an implied vast possession of cold culture of the inhibited sort.
SOUTH OF THE SLOT
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The Frenchie is a Bloody with a Dijon bite balanced with a blue cheese-stuffed olive plus pickled asparagus, a pickle, lemon and lime.
JSOnline.com
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In 1926, the year of his birth, 2 billion people inhabited this planet.
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Posting of slanderous, libelous, abusive or defamatory material is totally prohibited.
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Dede, if I tell you, flat and straight, that I'm going up to live on that ranch at Glen Ellen, that I ain't taking a cent with me, that I'm going to scratch for every bite I eat, and that I ain't going to play ary a card at the business game again, will you come along with me?
Chapter XXII
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Otherwise, the Commonwealth could always legislate to say certain categories of State legislation are prohibited.
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Blind, totally eyeless trilobites have given us another indication of the range of trilobite habits and habitats.
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Your dentist will likely need to place a crossbite "expander" for a few months to correct that.--very common orthodontic correction.
Pacifiers
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Hundreds of fossils are locked in glass cases, specimens from all over southern Africa: shells and worms and nautiluses and seed ferns and trilobites, and minerals, too; yellow-green crystals and gleaming clusters of quartz; mosquitoes in drops of amber; scheelite, wulfenite.
Memory Wall
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My leg puffed up all round the insect bite.
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And really, the first few bites of peanut brittle, frosted cookies, etc., are always the best.
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The rest of the men waited on a piece of rock inhabited by penguins, seals, and ice in the hope of their captain's return.
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For a start, this music is uninhibited, drawing plentifully from the lightweight and somewhat swingy end of the spectrum.
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In the heliocentric universe conceived by the sixteenth-century astronomer Nicolaus Copernicus, for example, planets orbited the Sun in perfect circles.
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She scratched at the insect bites on her arm.
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Raine took a big bite out of it, smiling as she did so.
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Wendy popped in for a quick bite to eat on Monday night.
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When I make dinner now and my children barely touch a bite, I see dollar bills going in the trash as I scrape the dinner dishes after the meal.
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To stay bite-free, said Brandi Moritz with the Platte County Health Department, residents can treat standing water with mosquito larvicide briquettes, put on repellant, wear long sleeves and avoid being outdoors from dusk to dawn when the mosquitoes bite most.
KansasCity.com: Front Page
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Comments (32) 'Ugly Betty' Bites: Enjoy the best 19 quips from the best episode of the season (so far)! by Tanner Stransky
'Ugly Betty' Bites: Enjoy the best 19 quips from the best episode of the season (so far)! | EW.com
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The fish won't bite today.
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Never bite on such questions because they'll lead you into a trackless wasteland and you'll never get out of it.
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This period ushered in the flowering of so-called grotesque ornamentation, where erotic hybrids abounded in uninhibited decorative fantasies.
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Cicero - The man who backbites an absent friend: A quote for Gordon & Peter Mandelson.
Archive 2008-12-01
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He replied by the term invariably used by the Spaniards when they see doubt or distrust exhibited.
The Bible in Spain; or, the journeys, adventures, and imprisonments of an Englishman, in an attempt to circulate the Scriptures in the Peninsula
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Replied Obayd, No! But whenever I have by me a guest like thee, he complaineth in the morning of the mosquito bites, and this happeneth only when he is like thee beardless.
The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
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The issue is too complicated for honest sound bites anyway.
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These white effusive igneous formations, found there and in the Thomas Mountains of Utah, and also in the tin districts of Catron and Sierra Counties within New Mexico, are still the only known source of bixbite.
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Mumma pulled up a map that showed where methane had been found and where the Mars Global Surveyor, a spacecraft that orbited Mars from 1997 to 2006, found the weak remnants of what had once been a strong magnetic field.
First Contact
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Snappers strike viciously when lifted from water or teased and can inflict a serious bite.
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Nationality discrimination is prohibited in that context.
Times, Sunday Times
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I drank the tea which I had allowed to get cold and took a bite out of the kichel.
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That said, the story lacks the classic satiric or thematic bite of a Shakespearean or Molierian work.
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Soon, however, social turmoil swept the country, weakening the monarch's effectiveness as an arbiter of political disputes, and exacerbating communal violence among Hutu, Tutsi, and Twa, the three major ethnic communities.
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Only a few looked inhabited -- lawns bestrewn with gadgets, excavations begun with small bulldozers and abandoned, Pack or Swarm or Family flags flying from the mainmasts.
Boing Boing: January 16, 2005 - January 22, 2005 Archives
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His proof came in the guise of soundbites that he pledged "were not edited," and the "methodicalness" came by a member of the O'Reilly crack staff going out to the Iraqi War Protest in Washington this past week to ask questions of Sean Penn, Jane Fonda, Susan Saranden and Tim Robbins.
Methodical Bill O Proves There Are No Other Options To Bush Iraq Policy
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It’s a lousy first day on the job for dental assistant Nina Blackman when a patient, loopy from the anesthesia, bites her.
“Accidentally Dead” by Dakota Cassidy
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I examined closely where the squirrel had bitten the branches, and found the bite marks in the thin bark.
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The title of chief was largely a matter of prestige, as authority was exercised by the consensus of those of high status, who would act as arbiters in dispute resolution.
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Unfortunately, as a child, I was not given the opportunity to learn and as I have recently retired and have a little spare time on my hands, I thought it time to stop wittering on about it and bite the bullet.
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The plague was only finally brought under control in 1666 when the Great Fire of London burned down the areas most affected by plague - the city slums inhabited by the poor.
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The serotonin transporter can be selectively inhibited by antidepressant drugs such as fluoxetine and citalopram.
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Under international maritime law ships are prohibited from discharging raw sewage within 12 miles of the coast.
Times, Sunday Times
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The use of markets is prohibited for pregnant stock, stirks under six months and lambs under 12 weeks.
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Ossein pretreated for a 2weeks period exhibited the maximum % yield incase of bone gelatin, while the yield from intact skin was higher than that realized incase of de-scaled skin.
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Many of these storms, if they occurred in uninhabited areas, would pass without any notice or impacts.
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The chitinized walls that lined many of the spray flow structures exhibited birefringence in polarized light microscopy.
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When a fish bites the hook, the float bobs.
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Any agreements or decisions prohibited pursuant to this Article shall be automatically void.
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The group of uninhabited islets about 180 km north of Taiwan are claimed by Taiwan, China and Japan.
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The man was so rude I had to bite my tongue to keep from getting into argument with him.
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They may involve several independent elements, such as orbiters, sub-satellites, landers, rovers, penetrators, airborne robots, planetary ascent vehicles or re-entry vehicles.
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Along the fuselage belly, the skin exhibited extreme bulging typical of corrosion damage.
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If Republican State Senator Ronda Storms gets her way, Florida residents may soon be prohibited from purchasing "nonstaple, unhealthy foods" like chips, cookies and soda with funds they receive from the federal Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program SNAP
The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com
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The submicroscopic domain , inhabited by elementary particles, is probably the most fundamental frontier of physics.
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The exploration company said artifacts recovered from the new expedition will be housed in a permanent museum and exhibited around the world.
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Further 1051 E, E. 1, E. 2 states the State of AZ, subdivisions, and agencies MAY NOT be prohibited in anyway from the sharing of a citizens info with theFeds.
The Volokh Conspiracy » Immigrants and Nazis, Communists and Cardinals
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Where refugees are forced or coerced to return to their country of origin to fight, this is tantamount to refoulement, which is prohibited in all circumstances.
2. Protection
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As one researcher writes in a study on moods and menstruation in college students, 'negative behavior exhibited premenstrually is perceived as evidence for the prevailing negative stereotype of female emotional behavior while positive behavior is ignored as something for which biology is irrelevant.'
PMS
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I began composing an introduction praising the spiritual enlightenment exhibited in choosing to congregate in taverns, like 1849 San Jose legislators stepping in from muddy streets to drink whisky on barrelheads, before plotting out the future of nascent California.
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We could have a bite to eat together.
Times, Sunday Times
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I'm lucky that beast didn't bite my arm off.
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There were so many loopholes and shelters that only the chumps got that big of a bite taken out of their pockets - hench the alternative minimum tax was created.
Matthew Yglesias » The Case for More Tax Brackets
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It is also an invitation to all those bothersome insect pests, which bite and annoy us, to join in on the activities.
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With all the flow and rafts of weed washing downstream it was very difficult keeping the bite alarms from bleeping continuously.
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A mission involving three gliders would explore the composition and stratigraphy of the walls of Valles Marineris in ways not possible for orbiters and landers.
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While many bites occur when an animal is unleashed and away from home, the most common scenario for an attack features a dog running loose on its own property.
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5: 16, "Be not called a tale-bearer [Douay: 'whisperer']" says: "i.e. a backbiter.
Summa Theologica, Part II-II (Secunda Secundae) Translated by Fathers of the English Dominican Province
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The section of the island inhabited by the women is finely manicured and dotted with wooden houses on stilts.
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Trained manpower is needed in debt recovery or else you end up losing business through uncouth behaviour exhibited by some hotheads.
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Snake bites require immediate medical attention.
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One bite from a Staffordshire bull terrier cross just missed her eye.
The Sun
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Raphaël Zarka believes that the world is inhabited by phantoms, reoccurring forms and remanence.
We make money not art
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The ski's edge should bite into the snow.
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Whereas the alloy with low Na content exhibited ductile fracture with dimples.
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(Soundbite of laughter) Ms. POUNDSTONE: I don't know, you know, I have a silly peccadillo which is that I call body parts by their names.
Panel Round Two
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The brightest bloom in the bouquet of sound bites was ‘failure does not equate to a crime.’
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A great performance by Polanski as the boring, drab office worker who slowly goes insane, and, consequently, sheds his inhibited personality.
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I knew that the biotechnology industry had been pouring money into opposing the initiative with slick advertisements and tricky sound bites.
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Kiribati21 of the 33 islands are inhabited; Banaba (Ocean Island) in Kiribati is one of the three great phosphate rock islands in the Pacific Ocean - the others are Makatea in French Polynesia, and Nauru
Geography-note
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Some fish can give you a nasty bite.
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You need some bite to distinguish the flavours, which is exactly what was delivered here.
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When fate marks you down for immortality you'd just better bite the bullet and lace your boots up tight.
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There were about half-a-dozen other starters on offer, with the bite-size mushroom pakoras and onion bhajis being especially nice and not too greasy.
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Not a single defendant at the1692 Salem Witch Trials was burned at the stake...19 were hanged while a 20th, a man who refused to enter a plea, was crushed to death with heavy stones medical historians have ascribed the bizarre behavior exhibited there to various causes, such as an outbreak of encephalitis or rye bread contaminated by the hallucinogenic known as ergot!
Dr. Franklin Ruehl, Ph.D.: 15 Intriguing Halloween-Related Factoids!
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During icehouse periods the distribution of continents inhibited circum-equatorial circulation forcing faster oceanic circulation in the main ocean gyres.
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Nearly 10 percent of all students were identified as gifted, compared to 8. 4 percent of the work-inhibited population.
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Although tobacco ads are prohibited, companies get around the ban by sponsoring music shows.
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One of the more important aspects of mandibular reduction is to seat the occlusion or bite, as it existed before the accident.
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In the majority of our traditions, it is common to see parents encourage their young daughters to abandon school and get married at ages which are prohibited by law.
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Meanwhile, 66% of women and 69% of men married 10 years had never cohabited.
Report: Cohabiting has little effect on marriage success
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I had my first good bite, a two inch lift then the indicator dropping like the clappers on a slack line.
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We have the disintegration of the shuttle orbiter.
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A collection of cacti xerophytic plants - over 800 specimens - is exhibited in the nearby cactus house.
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The government's new higher taxes are really beginning to bite.
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I always try to bite Goldfish so that they split in my mouth longways.
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For this solo, he exhibited untitled watercolors and monotypes with his typically whimsical mixture of abstraction and figuration.
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Result: Methylprednisolone inhibited the activity of neural stem cells in vitro, and also promoted apoptosis of neural stem cells.
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The Mississippi civil rights law, passed in 1865, contained the standard language: “All freedmen, free Negroes and mulattoes, who do now and have heretofore lived and cohabited together as husband and wife shall be taken and held in law as legally married.”
A Renegade History of the United States
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Lunchtime is the busiest with Temple barristers and solicitors grabbing a quick bite and drink before a dash back to the courts.
Times, Sunday Times
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Methods Summarize the clinical data of 111 cases of Naja naja bites. Make a statistical analysis on biochemical index.
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Blues is a delicious full fat soft blue cheese with a creamy texture and good bite.
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I spotted him, and he rabbited and abandoned the car.
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Friday Night I would pick them up and head to the Promenade, maybe for a quick bite at Islands or On The Border and then catch a movie.
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His comments came shortly before four rescuers reached an Italian mountaineer suffering frostbite and exhaustion.
Times, Sunday Times
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His detailed sculpture reveals a Caucasian, perhaps Hispanic, boy with "longish" dark hair with a "distinctive" overbite, which may identify him.
ABC News: ABCNews
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Others became hysterical, possibly suffering from hypothermia, while thousands more suffered exposure and frostbite.
Times, Sunday Times
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All this exactness of requisition appeared to me to be going rather too far; and I exhibited my feeling on the subject, in the tone in which I replied, that I had stated every thing that was necessary for the satisfaction of a "man of sense, but that I had neither the faculty nor the inclination to indulge the captiousness of any man.
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 54, No. 333, July 1843
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The pair had a bite to eat and a gamble.
The Sun
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When a fish bites, the sliding sinker enables it to swim a short distance with the bait before feeling resistance.
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If the Socialists win the election, they too will have to bite the bullet.
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Gavlok heaped a piece of soft manchet bread with thin slices of beef, slathered on mustard, and took a huge bite.
IRONCROWN MOON: PART TWO OF THE BOREAL MOON TALE
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Still, if you want your Crisis analysis to have plenty of bite and a dash of bile, relish Living Dangerously.
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This way you can fish the lift method, but minimise false bites caused by fish bumping against too vertical a line.
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The intramural squabbling and partisan agendas of the past thirty-five years have often inhibited the discerning engagement with the culture that is imperative for a community of disciples called to be salt and light.
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The 435 members of the House each are expected to bite off a specialty and run with it.
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It is a variation of growth and development and can affect a person's bite, ability to clean teeth properly, gingival health, jaw growth, speech development, and appearance.
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Vern actually looked up from his last bite of bread roll as I came back in.
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[Sidenote: Abuses to be prohibited.] (b) Communities like those of Central Africa, to be administered by the mandatary under conditions generally approved by the members of the
World's War Events $v Volume 3 Beginning with the departure of the first American destroyers for service abroad in April, 1917, and closing with the treaties of peace in 1919.
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Carlos wants to know why they rabbited and did someone tip them off.
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At the same time he paints a sad picture of the dreamland inhabited by his drunks, druggies and small-time punks.
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Columbite is the ore of niobium, which is used in steels and high strength alloys.
Lounge of the Lab Lemming
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To be sure, change was gradual, and some exhibited strong anger, but these women appear to have been more retrained and they constituted a smaller proportion of the suspects.
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Even a friendly dog will bite if it's scared.
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The bylaw also prohibited a person from panhandling towards motorists who were parked or stopped at a traffic light, and from panhandling on a street between sunset and sunrise.
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At last, it is adhibited with nonwoven fabric (gunny cloth).
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(Soundbite of music) SIMON: Boy, I feel ameliorated.
What Would You Call Attack-Ad Funders?
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SECTION 2 The transportation or importation into any State, Territory or Possession of the United States for delivery or use therein of intoxi - cating liquors in violation of the laws thereof is hereby prohibited.
Legacy
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This branch, under ordinary precedent, simply threw the case out of court; but in addition, the decision, proceeding with what lawyers call obiter dictum, went on to declare that under the Constitution of the United States neither Congress nor a territorial legislature possessed power to prohibit slavery in Federal Territories.
A Short Life of Abraham Lincoln
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Delays over her bathtub had occurred partly because the board prohibited whirlpool tubs, and partly because she had paused momentarily in revising her plans.
Times, Sunday Times
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Later a refuge for Catholic priests in times of terror the Stuarts of Traquair supported Mary Queen of Scots and the Jacobite cause without counting the cost.
