bits

Example Sentences

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"I was crying, I was in bits," she said.

From BBC • May 23, 2026

In the ruins, Sabbagh picked out bits of his family's shattered life -- a scrap of his mother Afaf's bedspread, chunks of wooden furniture from their dining room, a red sofa cushion.

From Barron's • May 20, 2026

Securities filings are packed with repetitive legalese few will read, while the juicy bits in the footnotes require some expertise to understand.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 12, 2026

The last work he staged, “Moby Dick” was for Wilson “Messiah”-like in that he picked and chose bits from a novel with an already interrupted narrative the way Handel’s librettist did from the Bible.

From Los Angeles Times • May 11, 2026

Hammering coconuts onto a board doesn’t work because the shell breaks, and if it didn’t break right away, I think bits of it would fall off later and then the raft might sink.

From "Nim’s Island" by Wendy Orr