Example Sentences

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The German car sector is in crisis, faced with the costs of ramping up investment into EVs as well as increasingly fierce Chinese competition that is biting into sales.

From Barron's • Nov. 28, 2025

Does anybody else hear a guy who is biting his tongue while taking one for the team?

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 9, 2024

Market studies show the horror genre is becoming increasingly popular with younger audiences, particularly in the US, where it is biting at the heels of the action film market.

From BBC • Jun. 14, 2023

And like that example, a lack of dollars in Cairo's local currency markets is biting the economy.

From Reuters • May 11, 2023

We clink glasses and Lidia is biting her quivering lower lip while Rufus, like me, is smiling.

From "They Both Die at the End" by Adam Silvera