Example sentences for: biting

How can you use “biting” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • Some of the common comparisons were: slow as the seven-year itch, mad as a biting sow, though as withleather, fierce as a boar hog, flat as a flitter , and hot as flugens .

  • Director Joe Dante is chided for wasting realistic special effects and the voices of Tommy Lee Jones and Ernest Borgnine and for failing to reprise the biting humor of his magnum opus, Gremlins . Critics dwell on the irony of the late Phil Hartman's character getting caught in crossfire.

  • Mike Tyson was disqualified during his latest championship boxing match for biting off part of Evander Holyfield's ear . The bite inspired a blizzard of bad puns and rekindled the ancient debate over whether boxing is inherently or only sporadically barbaric.

  • Blaming this problem on the farmer is nothing less than biting the hand that feeds.

  • USAT , the NYT , the WP , and the LAT each give above-the-fold coverage to yesterday's decision by Nevada boxing authorities to fine Mike Tyson nearly $3 million and to revoke his boxing license for at least one year as punishment for biting Evander Holyfield on both ears during their championship fight last week.


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