Bite

As soon as you bite that sandwich, you'll know how good it is.

That dog is about to bite!

If you see me, come and say hello. I don't bite.

I needed snow chains to make the tires bite.

For homeowners with adjustable rate mortgages, rising interest will really bite.

Are the fish biting today?

I've planted the story. Do you think they'll bite?

These mosquitoes are really biting today!

It bites like pepper or mustard.

Pepper bites the mouth.

[…]froſts doe bite the Meads[…]

At the laſt it [wine] biteth like a ſerpent, and ſtingeth like ‖ an adder.

The anchor bites.

The anchor bites the ground.

[…]the last screw of the rack having been turned so often that its purchase crumbled, and it now turned and turned with nothing to bite[…]

This music really bites.

You don't like that I sat on your car? Bite me.

He always be biting my moves.

[…]I have knowne a very good Fiſher angle diligently four or ſix hours in a day, for three or four dayes together for a River Carp, and not have a bite[…]

Now trust me when I tell you, young lady, teeth are something you want to take care of. They’re these rare white things that give us pleasure throughout our life. And give us bite. Our inheritance. Our means of survival. Our right to rule. Their enamel is the front line. And that line needs to be won every day.

That snake bite really hurts!

After just one night in the jungle I was covered with mosquito bites.

There were only a few bites left on the plate.

Not a soul in Corlaix will dare give us bite, sup, or shelter; and we shall die starved in a ditch, all four of us—that much we are our own, but in all else we are Monseigneur’s; all else, I say, all—all.

In February of this year, 9to5 was forced to lay off four of its paid staff, and began to feel the bite of its high-rent downtown office space.

That song is a bite of my song!

a bite to eat

I'll have a quick bite to quiet my stomach until dinner.

Wilma, I promise you one thing. Whatever scum is behind this, not a single cop on this police force will have a minute's rest until he's behind bars. Now let's grab a bite to eat.

Would I take someone here for a first date? No. Would I go here for a cheap bite? Also no...

Kathy Santen is full of bite as the bizarrely seduced Lady Anne, although her exaggerated diction is a bit too snappishly Shakespearean.

In Tarabai’s text this exposure is direct, unusually blunt, full of bite and ridicule, and highly polemical.

City scored the goals but periods of ball possession were shared - the difference being Villa lacked bite in the opposition final third.

The baser methods of getting money by fraud and bite, by deceiving and overreaching.

[I]t was conjectured, that Peregrine was a bite from the beginning, who had found credit on account of his effrontery and appearance, and impoſed himſelf upon the town as a young gentleman of fortune.

So he went home cursing the Yorkshire bites, and swearing there was no living among them […]

I know three Americans who are running a bar. The cops come in all the time for a bite.

cold open: Starting a TV newscast with video or a bite from the lead story rather than starting with the anchor or the standard show open.