Sentence examples for bitten back from inspiring English sources
He has never once bitten back at anybody, just got on with it.
But tough, relentless, flak-jacketed Adie - with her schoolmarm looks and machine-gun intonation - has bitten back.
North Korea has bitten back, in the form of a cyber-hacking group called Guardians of Peace, who may or may not have direct links to the government.
As criticism is bitten back, the ANC and the state risk fusing into a single entity.Worryingly, the constitutional checks on the power of the ANC government are being slowly eroded.
"I 'know' it because the poem itself sedulously refuses to pose a question, frame a conclusion … The feel is of something broken off, bitten back … the rhetorical figure that gestures towards something by looking away".
The small blue and white ceramic by Pablo Picasso that now sits in a museum display case at the Jerwood Gallery in Hastings has a very different place in the childhood memories of Antony Penrose, the boy who bit one of the most famous artists of the 20th century – and was promptly bitten back.
