bits

Was I becoming a ones-and-zeros, bits-and-bytes version of my mother?

On a practical level, readers are attracted to books that they can read in short bits.

Everything was longer, editing was different, not like these short bits we have today.

There are no emails for us to wade through—even if we were champing at the bits.

Around the world, similar theories and bits-and-pieces of evidence have surfaced.

Bits of paper blew aimlessly about, wafted by a little, feverish breeze, which rose in spasms and died away.

The wheezy, crazy mechanism of the car went to bits in unexpected places.

In the lulls, Robert and his mother exchanged bits of desultory conversation.

They would feed him apples, potatoes and sometimes bits of cake that Bob's mother gave them.

She had forced herself to eat most of her soup, and now she was picking the flaky bits of a court bouillon with her fork.