Use bit in a sentence
Sentences starting with bit
- Bit by bit the ground hardened, and if by chance we dozed we stuck to it. [9]
Sentences ending with bit
- Not that there's wrong in aither of them--divil a bit! [11]
- So we thought we'd prospect a bit. [5]
- The factor looked up and said: "Hume, I've something here that's been worrying me a bit. [11]
- They begun raging towards me, but there I was asleep on the bench-stony blind, and then they only spit fire a bit. [11]
- I popped out to my armpits and blowed the water out of my nose, and puffed a bit. [5]
- He knew all this and therefore waited calmly for what would happen, with more patience than the horses, especially the near one, the chestnut Falcon, who was pawing the ground and champing his bit. [2]
- I must go there, Prince, and scare them a bit. [2]
- The bank would tell you so, and then you'd stir those leadsmen up a bit. [5]
- But it has struck me that the real Mr. Allen might turn up here, or some friend of his, and stir things a bit. [9]
- You had better stand by the fire here, and dry yourselves a bit. [12]
Short sentences using bit
- Wait a bit, wait.... [2]
- Not a bit of it. [10]
- Not a bit nervous--no tremblin'. [13]
- Grafton bit his lip. [9]
- Cynthia bit her lip. [9]
- Virginia Hayden bit her lip. [9]
- Hold on a bit? [5]
- Wasn't that a bit 'momentary'? [11]
- He sags a bit himself. [11]
- Hawkins said, "Wait a bit. [5]
Sentences containing bit two or more times
- We're a long way from home, Joey and me, and a bit o' kindness is a bit of all right to us. [11]
- Knowledge was presented to us as a corpse, which bit by bit we painfully dissected. [9]
- He is a physiognomist, a physiologist, a bit of an anatomist, a bit of a mesmerist, a bit of a geologist, a Flemish painter, an upholsterer, a micrological, misanthropical, sceptical philosopher; but he is no moralist, and certainly no reformer. [6]
- When the garden patches grew bare and brown, and the bleak winds from across the Mississippi swept over the common, untoward tidings came like water dripping from a roof, bit by bit. [9]
- I had exhausted my family records, bit by bit, like a curate in his first parish; and had gone so far as to testify that one of my ancestors had been banished to Australia for political crimes. [11]
- But she bit her lip "He is like all Yankees, without one bit of consideration for a woman. [9]
- I wanted to go over it all, bit by bit, and work it out in my head, just as you and I used to do the puzzle games we played in the sands. [11]
- And Colonel Byng's all right, too, except a little bit o' splinter--" "A bit of splinter--" Her voice was almost peremptory. [11]
- Marse Tommy ain't a bit puttier--not a single bit. [5]
More example sentences with the word bit in them
- You've got coin, you've got sense, you're a bit distinguished-looking, and I'll back your heart against a thousand bishops. [11]
- That dimun in your shirt-front hain't got no life to it, says I. I don't believe it's nothiri' more 'n a bit o' winderglass. [6]
- P'r'aps it'd ease your mind a bit to tell it. [11]
- When I tell you that a bit of ribbon in my button-hole sets my vanity prancing, I think you cannot be grievously offended that I smile at the resonant titles which make you something more than human in your own eyes. [6]
- And yet, do you know, Miss Raglan, I don't feel a bit ashamed of it, after all: which may be evidence of my lost condition. [11]
- That man was wounded by a trick of fate, by a cussed bit of shell from your coehorns while eating his dinner in Vicksburg. [9]
- Your fine cords would soon get a bit rubbed," said an infantryman, wiping the mud off his face with his sleeve. [2]
- She knows the world well enough to know just how much polish they can take on, and she don't try to put on a bit more. [8]
- There she is, with her hand in her pocket, though,--and sure enough, her little bit of silver tinkled as it struck the coin beneath. [6]
- Occasionally he would wish to be in it all again, out in the wild woods and on the river and in the shanty, free and strong and friendly and a bit ferocious. [11]
- When the scoundrel whom she had called husband, and for whom her contempt had become too deep for hate, sneeringly assailed her family as having been fed from generation to generation from the corn-bin of the Museum, she bit her lips. [10]
- I'll take them where they must go, scold them a bit, and pet them a bit," said Marya Dmitrievna, touching her goddaughter and favorite, Natasha, on the cheek with her large hand. [2]
- But here is what I wrote: "I am a bit of a fool over this book. [11]
- In the fair west wind I know the Mistress herself, full of hope, and always the first one to discover a bit of blue in a cloudy sky. [4]
- Hammering each other--for we stepped aside and looked on while they rolled, and struggled, and gouged, and pounded, and bit, with the strict and wordless attention to business of so many bulldogs. [5]
- When at last we came to a badly ruptured bit of masonry, with hoof-prints evidencing a desperate struggle to regain the lost foothold, I looked quite hopefully over the dizzy precipice. [5]
- I lost my way, and--" "Not a bit of it," d'Avranche interrupted. [11]
- That is the way people of his constitution are apt to take a bit of pleasantry. [6]
- And the mantel was now but a bit of a shelf, and held many things that seemed scarce at home on the rough and painted wood,--gold filigree; and China and Japan, and a French clock that ought not to have been just there. [9]
- But Mrs. Mavick was not a bit abashed. [4]
- Presently another token was found in a loose bit of buckle from a shoe. [11]
- He said they was crawling up his legs; and then he would give a jump and scream, and say one had bit him on the cheek--but I couldn't see no snakes. [5]
- He knew it was a bit of acting, and it was well done. [11]
- I see it warn't a bit of use to try to go ahead--I'd got to throw up my hand. [5]
- Wait a bit, wait!--With a definite aim before my eyes I have never yet failed to find my way--in the realm of science, of course; but what is life--the life of the sage but applied knowledge? [10]
- And yet, this vile bit of human rubbish seemed to bear a sort of remote and ill-defined resemblance to me! [5]
- The pony-rider was usually a little bit of a man, brimful of spirit and endurance. [5]
- He even gave us a bit of clay to shape. [10]
- He frequently blew upon the burning spot in his flesh, over which a bit of cloth was wrapped, but curiosity concerning the result of this entertaining brawl was stronger than the wish to have it bandaged and healed. [10]
- His foot swelled up pretty big, and so did his leg; but by and by the drunk begun to come, and so I judged he was all right; but I'd druther been bit with a snake than pap's whisky. [5]
- An officer picked up a few curls, preserved in a bit of cardboard, and marked 'Ned's hair, with love'; but around were strewn locks, some near a yard in length, dissevered, not as a keepsake, by quite other scissors. [5]
- Not just frizzled up a bit, but literally roasted to a crisp! [5]
- Dyck rode the unpaved streets on his horse with its high demipicque Spanish saddle, with its silver stirrups and heavy bit, and made his way towards Charlotte Bedford's lodgings. [11]
- Two hundred and twenty yards; and so weightless a toy--a mouse on the end of a bit of wire, in effect; and not sailing through the accommodating air, but encountering grass and sand and stuff at every jump. [5]
- But if you took them for fools you'd get bit, sure. [5]
- And, if they took the moral to heart, it would prove every bit as effectual as their own epitaphs. [9]
- After all, here, too, a bit of the sky with its many stars is looking down upon us. [10]
- Who could have told me that I should one day have the satisfaction to look again upon this bit of wood that supported me above the grave that swallowed up my unfortunate companions! [5]
- Then Lewis sprang to the ground and stood in this V. He gathered his vast strength, and with a perfect Creedmoor aim he seized the gray horse's bit as he plunged by and fetched him up standing! [5]
- You have but to summon one of the rascals, promise him a bit of war interest, and he will leave you as much as you desire, and nothing spoken. [9]
- I was about to say, "You haven't changed a bit since then"--but that was risky. [5]
- They were wont to say to each other, as the hurrying world made inroads on the strict Quaker life to which they had returned: "All the world's mad but thee and me, and thee's a bit mad. [11]
- I rode up to my Lord March, and finding there was a minute yet to run I went up the Row a distance and back again amidst more huzzaing, Pollux prancing and quivering, and frothing his bit, but never once attempting to break. [9]
- The suggestion as to form has been adopted bit many of our religious, literary, and special weeklies, to the great convenience of the readers, and I doubt not of the publishers also. [4]
- Nothing daunted by this reception, he clung tight to his opponent, and bit and hammered away with such good-will and heartiness, that it was at least a couple of minutes before he was dislodged. [12]
- He seemed to think that if he were at home, and could get a bit of fried bacon, or a piece of pie, he should be all right. [4]
- But I don't think Mr. Bentley has grown a bit older. [9]
- Not deriving from these means the relief which he sought, he bit off an immense mouthful from the bread and meat, and took a quick drink of the porter; by which artificial aids he choked himself and effected a diversion of the subject. [12]
- Then I told them that this was only a bit of enchantment which would work harm to none but my enemies. [5]
- On the whole, the situation delighted Honora, who bit her lip to refrain from smiling at M. de Toqueville. [9]
- I might gladly the separable verb also a little bit reform. [5]
- I recollect in the Presidential election which followed, when we had General Scott up for the presidency, Judge Douglas was around berating us Whigs as Abolitionists, precisely as he does to-day,--not a bit of difference. [7]
- Maybe it's because the Pendleton-Grenfell element have always set their patrician faces against it; maybe its been a bit overdone. [9]
- I coughed at the moment, and he gave me a sudden look that bit right into my marrow. [5]
- Why, sir, he's the longest bit of man you ever saw, with a pointed beard, and a nose that's as long as a midshipman's tongue-dry, lean, and elastic. [11]
- We collected within the limits of this bit of earth everything which can delight the senses; not a single one is omitted in this narrow space, whose crowded maze of pleasures fairly impede freedom of movement. [10]
- The bullet grazed the lad's temple, carrying away a bit of his hair. [11]
- The men were the hardest-looking ruffians we had met yet: they were making a bit of road near by, but they seemed capable of turning their hands to easier money-getting; and there couldn't be a more convenient place than this. [4]
- There, indeed, was the fleet, but far away, like toy ships on the water, and the bit of a fort perched on the sandy edge of an island. [9]
- I intend in the course of this vacation to search for the cave; and, if I find it, my readers shall know the truth about it, if it destroys the only bit of romance connected with these mountains. [4]
- For an instant the Colonel looked nonplussed, and just a bit uncomfortable; and Mrs. [5]
- The door of the cavern was big enough to roll a hogshead in, and on one side of the door the floor stuck out a little bit, and was flat and a good place to build a fire on. [5]
- He glanced at the book, and the bit of sky was crimson. [9]
- I, a scamp, The best long-shot in the Touchwood Camp; Muscle and nerve like strings of steel, Sound in the game of bit and heel-- There's your guide-book. [11]
- This letter, too, the base robber of a crown read aloud, called it a clever bit of feminine strategy, and rubbed his hands gleefully. [10]
- Is it possible that this pirate of the Street had a bit of sentiment at the bottom of his heart? [4]
- I tell her that although I am prone to write hasty and regrettable things to other people, I am not a bit likely to write such things to you. [5]
- Then the two talked together a bit, and Satan said: "He says his master was drunk. [5]
- But had she taken the bit between her teeth? [13]
- Cardanus gets a story from Avicenna, of a certain man bit by a serpent, who recovered of his bite, the snake dying therefrom. [6]
- Well, there you stood in some sort of smooth, plain, clingin' gown, a little bit loose and tumblin' at the throat, and your pretty foot with a brown slipper pushed out, just savin' you from bein' prim. [11]
- So my face spoke again, and he answered with gratified words: "All her work; she did it all herself--every bit. [5]
- He mounted the sorrel again, and loosing a long sash from his waist drew it through the mare's bit. [11]
- We were his sons, but though Fabian is a little bit like him in appearance, I'm not, and never was. [11]
- Mr. Hopper drew something out of his pocket, eyed Miss Crane, and bit off a corner. [9]
- Even Mr. Carvel, so used to the Judge's ways, was a bit taken aback by this question. [9]
- They have said so to me, and it is understood among us Kentuckians that we don't like it one bit. [7]
- And I am so interested in the little bit I have seen already. [9]
- Whenever she did so in vain, she pushed her soft, golden hair back from her forehead, raised her beautiful head higher, or bit her lips and gazed silently into her plate. [10]
- So she only smiled, and said, easily: "Dearest Jasmine, that umbrella episode which made me love Ian Stafford for ever and ever without even amen came after I was married, and so your pin doesn't prick, not a weeny bit. [11]
- Then he added slowly: "Fielding, fellows of that kind always flare up a bit according to Cavendish, just before the end. [11]
- At last the sleigh bore to the right, drew up at an entrance, and Rostov saw overhead the old familiar cornice with a bit of plaster broken off, the porch, and the post by the side of the pavement. [2]
- This bit of skull, with the tuft of blond hair, was his; this is his hat. [5]
- Arrah, 'tis a sin to be jokin' before a man has a bit in his sthummick. [9]
- My apparatus was simple: a little red paint and a bit of white paper. [5]
- Out of the silence there arose only the champing of a horse's bit or the hysterical giggle of a woman. [11]
- Would you mind showing me 'round a bit? [9]
- He shrugged his shoulders when Pierre was mentioned and, pointing to his forehead, remarked: "A bit touched--I always said so. [2]
- With nimble fingers she loosened the bridle and removed the bit. [13]
- A bit of sewing lay across a chair, and on the wall hung a military suit of the old sergeant, beside it a short sabre. [11]
- Red-haired Gitta was sewing another patch of cloth upon her rough husband's already well-mended jerkin by the dim light of a small lamp, into which she had put some fat and a bit of rag for a wick. [10]
- The lottery-houses were set up early, and, to the last, attracted crowds, who could not resist the tempting display of goods and trinkets, which might be won by investing six kreuzers in a bit of paper, which might, when unrolled, contain a number. [4]
- Suppose I had seen the notice at the start: 'This mortgage cannot be raised inside of four years--and a bit! [11]
- Indeed, my powers seemed a bit under a cloud. [5]
- An adopted kitten scratched this affectionate baboon, who certainly had a fine intellect, for she was much astonished at being scratched, and immediately examined the kitten's feet, and without more ado bit off the claws. [1]
- There was a scrap of paper with a Latin exercise bristling with errors, a smooth stone, a shabby, notched knife, a bit of chalk for drawing, an iron arrow-head, a broken hobnail, and a falconer's glove, which Count Lips had given his comrade. [10]
- You're a bit scorched-hair, eyebrows, moustache, clothes too, but he'll have brimstone inside him. [11]
- Brandy brought him round a little; but he was a bit gone in the head, and muttered all the way back to the ship. [11]
- On Monday I rose early, and went out for a bit of air before the scene with Mr. Dix. [9]
- Even half a Roman coat of mail and a bit of mosaic from a Roman bath were to be seen here. [10]
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