BIT in a Sentence

Learn BIT from example sentences; some of them are from classic books. These examples are selected from a corpus with 300,000 sentences, including classic works and current mainstream media. Some sentences also link to their contexts.
401 example sentences for BIT, such as:
1. Life's a little bit messy.
2. I'm feeling a bit dozy this afternoon.
3. Sunny had his little bit off the fillet.
4. Paul's being a bit evasive about this job.
5. I'm just a little bit caught in the middle.
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Animal Farm by George Orwell
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 Meanings and Examples of BIT
bit
 n.  a small fragment
 n.  a small piece or quantity of something
Classic Sentence: (210 in 15 pages)
1  Sunny had his little bit off the fillet.
Between the Acts By Virginia Woolf
Context  Highlight   In Unit 2
2  "Act; dance; sing; a little bit of everything," said Giles.
Between the Acts By Virginia Woolf
Context  Highlight   In Unit 4
3  I thought it every bit as good as anything I'd seen in London.
Between the Acts By Virginia Woolf
Context  Highlight   In Unit 8
4  It was a bit of luck--that he could despise him, not himself.
Between the Acts By Virginia Woolf
Context  Highlight   In Unit 8
5  Only when a new sample comes from the chemist, there's a bit of a break.
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde By Robert Louis Stevenson
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER THE LAST NIGHT
6  I am a bit of dirty riff-raff, and a genuine scrap of tag, rag, and bobtail.
Hard Times By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER II
7  He bit his lip, and took a little time for consideration.
Hard Times By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER I
8  He was greatly excited, horribly fevered, bit his nails down to the quick, spoke in a hard rattling voice, and with lips that were black and burnt up.
Hard Times By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER III
9  And snorting foam'd and champ'd the golden bit.
Ivanhoe By Walter Scott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VII
10  The arguments, the discussions were the great thing: the love-making and connexion were only a sort of primitive reversion and a bit of an anti-climax.
Lady Chatterley's Lover By D H Lawrence
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 1
11  Connie's man could be a bit sulky, and Hilda's a bit jeering.
Lady Chatterley's Lover By D H Lawrence
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 1
12  If the truth must be told, he was just a little bit frightened of middle-and lower-class humanity, and of foreigners not of his own class.
Lady Chatterley's Lover By D H Lawrence
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 1
13  I feel every man of my family has done his bit here, since we've had the place.
Lady Chatterley's Lover By D H Lawrence
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 5
14  It was the last bit of passion left in these men: the passion for making a display.
Lady Chatterley's Lover By D H Lawrence
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 5
15  thrilled to what bit of marrow she had left.
Lady Chatterley's Lover By D H Lawrence
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 5
Example Sentence: (191 in 13 pages)
1  I am not a bit anxious about my battles, If I am anxious I don't fight them, I wait until I am ready.
2  Paul's being a bit evasive about this job.
3  Four short words sum up what has lifted most successful individuals above the crowd: a little bit more.
4  Peter might look a bit fierce, but actually he's fairly harmless.
5  We're actually a bit short-handed at the moment.
6  I'm feeling a bit dozy this afternoon.
7  She said you were a bit offhand with her this afternoon.
8  He helped me a little bit in the afternoon.
9  I'll have to do those letters tomorrow—I'm a bit pushed for time this afternoon.
10  He seemed a bit biased against women in my opinion.
11  I'm a bit chary of using a travel agency that doesn't have official registration.
12  I'm just a little bit caught in the middle.
13  She was getting a bit dotty and could never be left alone.
14  Life's a little bit messy.
15  First they announce their engagement and then they tell me Angie's pregnant - it's all a bit sudden really.