Example Sentences

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Housing costs, car payments and insurance premiums have been biting deeper into wallets.

From MarketWatch • Nov. 26, 2025

Locally we received about 1.5” of rain the past week, and the fish have been biting in the right spots.

From Washington Times • Sep. 10, 2020

Even the Rams defenders, who have been biting their tongues for weeks when asked about the struggling offense, are defending Goff.

From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 1, 2017

As Brookings scholar William Galston told the The Washington Post, “What we’re learning is that a lot of people have been biting their lips, but not changing their minds.”

From Salon • Aug. 18, 2016

“The smoke will help to drive off the mosquitoes, which have been biting abominably; and I heard them buzzing round my ears the moment you called me.”

From In the Wilds of Florida A Tale of Warfare and Hunting by Davis, John Steeple