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BITING
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Traducere în limba română
biting adjectiv
muşcător, ascuţit, înţepător; (fig.) caustic, sarcastic.
Exemple de propoziții și/sau fraze:
Every urge of his being impelled him to spring upon the pack that cried at his heels, but it was the will of the gods that this should not be; and behind the will, to enforce it, was the whip of cariboo-gut with its biting thirty-foot lash.
(White Fang, de Jack London)
Avoid nail biting.
(Pinworms, NIH: National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases)
Biting winds and tropical suns had combined to darken them, whilst the habit of command and the menace of ever-recurring dangers had stamped them all with the same expression of authority and of alertness.
(Rodney Stone, de Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
'I am myself weak in the eyes, and have often taken one thing for another,' quoth the knight, as he sprang back into his saddle and rode off, leaving the Sieur de Crespigny biting his nails before the door.
(The White Company, de Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
When we subjected the mosquitoes to a series of pulses of light with a two-hour interval and presented throughout the entire night, we observed suppression of biting activity during most of the night, says Giles Duffield, a co-author of the study.
(Shining light at night quells mosquito bites, SciDev.Net)
"Oh! He's a curious animal and seems remarkably small, now that I look at him. No one would think of biting such a little thing, except a coward like me," continued the Lion sadly.
(The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, de L. Frank Baum)