biting

Example Sentences

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An early TV commercial for Apple Daily featured the then 48-year-old Lai biting the forbidden fruit while dozens of arrows took aim at him.

From BBC

“Tariffs are now biting, so exports will slow,” Moody’s Analytics said in a note.

From The Wall Street Journal

To that, Minister Wells counters: "We can police the sharks" – a biting reference to social media firms.

From BBC

At first, the acting student thought the lesion was just a result of biting her tongue during an epileptic seizure, but doctors decided to biopsy the area and found stage two squamous cell carcinoma.

From BBC

“For all her campy affectations, Samantha was always the most grounded of the characters, able to cut to the heart of things with a witty line, biting comment or just a simple truth.”

From Los Angeles Times