BITING in a Sentence

Learn BITING 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.
127 example sentences for BITING, such as:
1. An old dog bites sore.
2. The biting wind bleared the vision.
3. Whom an adder bites, dreads a lizard.
4. She scratched at the insect bites on her arm.
5. Without a cold biting, nothing is tangy incense.
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Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
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 Meanings and Examples of BITING
biting
 a.  causing a sharply painful or stinging sensation; used especially of cold
 a.  capable of wounding
Classic Sentence: (92 in 7 pages)
1  In the bedroom where the wraps were laid, she found Cathleen Calvert preening before the mirror and biting her lips to make them look redder.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VI
2  She wanted very much to scream every time Melanie did, and only by biting her lips so hard it infuriated her could she restrain herself and drive off hysteria.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXII
3  He sneered more, his words were apt to be more biting, but the manner that accompanied them was always punctilious--too punctilious.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER LIV
4  Suellen was going to have another baby--she spelled this out so the children would not comprehend--and Ella had shown unwonted spirit in biting Suellen's oldest girl.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER LVII
5  He was not drinking as he had formerly, becoming increasingly more polished and biting as the liquor took hold of him, saying amusing, malicious things that made her laugh in spite of herself.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER LX
6  The three rose at the sight of her, Aunt Pitty biting her trembling lips to still them, India staring at her, grief stricken and without hate.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER LXI
7  He vanished, then peeped in again, biting his knuckles, turning his shoulder toward her in shyness.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XV
8  When the white man who is always the aggressor knows he runs as great risk of biting the dust every time his Afro-American victim does, he will have greater respect for Afro-American life.
Southern Horrors By Ida B. Wells-Barnett
Context  Highlight   In VII
9  The mosquitoes made merry over her, biting her firm, round arms and nipping at her bare insteps.
The Awakening By Kate Chopin
Context  Highlight   In III
10  There came cruel, cold, and biting winds, and blizzards of snow, all testing relentlessly for failing muscles and impoverished blood.
The Jungle By Upton Sinclair
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 7
11  The blatant soldier often convulsed whole files by his biting sarcasms aimed at the tall one.
The Red Badge of Courage By Stephen Crane
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 2
12  From childhood he was distinguished by remarkable beauty; moreover he was self-confident, somewhat ironical, and had a rather biting humour; he could not fail to please.
Fathers and Children By Ivan Turgenev
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VII
13  'Here, take it,' she said, but at once drew back her outstretched hand, and, biting her lips, looked towards the entrance of the arbour, then listened.
Fathers and Children By Ivan Turgenev
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXIII
14  The old man rose from his knees, sat down in the armchair, and, clutching his beard, began biting his own fingers.
Fathers and Children By Ivan Turgenev
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXVII
15  A few minutes later the eldest sister came out with a pale hard face, again biting her underlip.
War and Peace 1 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER XXIV
Example Sentence: (35 in 3 pages)
1  The biting wind bleared the vision.
2  Braving the biting wind, she went out to beg from door to door.
3  Yeah, so I was just telling Mr Glover that the fish are biting down there this afternoon.
4  Without a cold biting, nothing is tangy incense.
5  She was reprimanded by her teacher for biting another girl.
6  The snake injects the venom immediately after biting its prey.
7  Antarctic air brought biting cold to southern Chile on Thursday.
8  He started and run round and round the cabin, hollering "Take him off! take him off! he's biting me on the neck!" I never see a man look so wild in the eyes.
9  She scratched at the insect bites on her arm.
10  Whom an adder bites, dreads a lizard.
11  An old dog bites sore.
12  When a dog bites a man that is not news, but when a man bites a dog that is news.
13  That dog is a dangerous brute; it bites people.
14  A dog that bites a human being must be observed for symptoms of hydrophobia.
15  I always thought I was good at math until I had to give up helping Chelsea with her homework when she was in ninth grade; an illusion bites the dust.