bite

Example Sentences

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These tools can bite before the market fully understands what is happening.

From MarketWatch • Jun. 4, 2026

According to a report published in the South China Morning Post, the new rules are starting to bite on financial institutions in the region.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 4, 2026

The plan is to infect males — which don’t bite — with a bacteria called Wolbachia, which effectively renders them sterile.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 4, 2026

Mixed into meatloaf, it lends the kind of rich, steakhouse-adjacent flavor that makes people pause after the first bite and ask what, exactly, you put in there.

From Salon • Jun. 2, 2026

Irian’s gentle voice had a bite to it.

From "Impossible Creatures" by Katherine Rundell