Example Sentences

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The rising cost of living has been biting into household budgets for months, with energy, food and fuel prices putting pressure on personal finances.

From BBC • May 16, 2023

She has been biting off a little more than she was able to chew in Group One company of late, without ever being disgraced.

From The Guardian • Sep. 28, 2012

Lately their favorite game has been biting each other, and they know that the punishment for this is being sent to Coventry.

From Time Magazine Archive

Mrs. Mackenzie, who has been biting her lips and drumming the time on a side-table, forgets at last the pain of being vanquished in admiration of the conquerors.

From The Newcomes Memoirs of a Most Respectable Family by Thackeray, William Makepeace

Mr. Guppy has been biting his thumb-nail during this dialogue, generally changing the thumb when he has changed the cross leg. 

From Bleak House by Dickens, Charles