Tikibu: pronunciation dictionary with use examples

Word: bites
IPA transcription: [b'aɪts]
Usage examples
  • Their bites, too, may be poisonous for all I know."
  • But after a few bites, it was queerly unsatisfactory.
  • The pick bites meanly, the wave grandly; hence a diminution of beauty.
  • "He bites legs sometimes, but he never bites faces," said the little boy.
  • "Swallowing a quart of whiskey when a rattlesnake bites you," suggested Jack.
  • Who cares for hunger and mosquito bites? Not I. Hunters can bear more than that, I guess.
  • Mrs Lammle opens her nostrils and bites her under-lip; Mr Lammle takes his gingerous whiskers in his left hand, and, bringing them together, frowns furtively at his beloved, out of a thick gingerous bush.
  • Guess you've had enough of catamounts for one spell, hey?" and Abner laughed as he looked at poor Corny, who was a more sorry spectacle than he knew,--ragged and rough, hatless and shoeless, his face red and swelled with the poisoning and bites, his eyes heavy with weariness, and in his mouth a bit of wild-cherry bark which he chewed ravenously.