Sentence examples for dry bite from inspiring English sources

A person with a "dry" bite should not be treated with antivenin because many people are allergic to the horse serum used in its production.

Older poets -- particularly older female poets -- are often held up as representatives of all that is "life-affirming," but Ponsot's best work has a dry bite that would make lunch meat out of Oprah, to say nothing of Dr. Phil.

After a few hours, as he sat calmly and felt no symptoms, he realized that the bite was what herpetologists refer to as a dry bite -- cobras sometimes conserve their venom.

This led him to believe that the snake either gave him a "dry bite" (meaning without injecting venom) or that the heavy bleeding pushed the venom out.

Luckily, it was a dry bite no venom -- and he survived, eventually rising to superintendent of the Reptile House.

The snake should be killed and brought in for identification, even for "dry" bites, in which venom is not injected.

A DRY, biting wind swept in from the Sahara as my young guide, David Dolo; my driver, Mahmadou; and I followed a local animist priest up a rocky trail in Dogon country in central Mali.

In fact, most bites are dry bites because they are defensive [1].