bitten
Example Sentences
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"The skull shows no signs of healing around the tyrannosaur tooth, so it may have already been dead when it was bitten, or it may be dead because it was bitten."
From Science Daily ● Jul. 14, 2026
The other 1 out of 5 people who get infected will have mild symptoms that usually start in 3 to 14 days after being bitten by an infected mosquito.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 30, 2026
A woman who was bitten by a shark more than a week ago while swimming at a popular Sydney beach has woken briefly from an induced coma, her family has said.
From BBC ● Jun. 24, 2026
Still, your chance of getting bitten is small—less than one in four million, said Gavin Naylor, director of the University of Florida’s shark-research program.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 21, 2026
He remembered Gramps’s most terrifying Betsy story, about one of his friends who’d been bitten by a water moccasin while making his way through the flooded streets.
From "I Survived Hurricane Katrina, 2005" by Lauren Tarshis
