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synonyms for bite dust

  • die
  • expire
  • perish
  • succumb
  • bite the dust
  • buy the farm
  • cash in one's chips
  • cease living
  • croak
  • decease
  • demise
  • depart
  • drop
  • kick the bucket
  • meet one's maker
  • pass on
On this page you'll find 198 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to bite dust, such as: die, expire, perish, succumb, bite the dust, and buy the farm.

antonyms for bite dust

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  • begin
  • be born
  • live
          • be born
          • begin
          • come
          • commence
          • continue
          • get
          • initiate
          • introduce
          • live
          • open
          • start
          • stay
          • bear
          • create
          • give birth
          • inhale
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          How to use bite dust in a sentence

          In the aperture of the window, amid piles of paper, stood a rickety old table, covered with dust.
          HILDA LESSWAYSARNOLD BENNETT
          It was little better than coal dust, and would not carry a ball fifty paces to kill or wound.
          BLACKWOOD'S EDINBURGH MAGAZINE, NO. CCCXXXIX. JANUARY, 1844. VOL. LV.VARIOUS
          Woe to the man that first did teach the cursed steel to bite in his own flesh, and make way to the living spirit.
          PEARLS OF THOUGHTMATURIN M. BALLOU
          Never mind the dust; I've turned it on to make believe we're going tremendously fast.
          DAVY AND THE GOBLINCHARLES E. CARRYL
          He laid it upon the floor, and took out a plaster mask, and brushing and blowing off the saw-dust, held it up.
          CHECKMATEJOSEPH SHERIDAN LE FANU
          When the smoke and dust cleared away nothing stirred on the whole of that piece of ground.
          GALLIPOLI DIARY, VOLUME IIAN HAMILTON
          But if people will insist on patting a strange poet, they mustn't be surprised if they get a nasty bite!
          PUNCH, OR THE LONDON CHARIVARI, VOLUME 107, NOVEMBER 3, 1894VARIOUS
          Tressan smote the table before him a blow that shook some of the dust out of the papers that cumbered it.
          ST. MARTIN'S SUMMERRAFAEL SABATINI
          A fearsome thunderstorm or howling tornado of dust might reveal her fickleness of mood at any moment.
          THE RED YEARLOUIS TRACY
          At noon we camped, and cooked a bite of dinner while the horses grazed; ate it, and went on again.
          RAW GOLDBERTRAND W. SINCLAIR
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          OCTOBER 26, 1985
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