Sentence examples for stand biting from inspiring English sources

She tried to stand, biting at her lip.

She'd feel the scream rushing up from her stomach, choking her from the inside, and she'd run out of the room, stumbling over her kids' toys, and hide in the hallway, in the narrow space between the coatrack and the mirror stand, biting down on her right forearm to muffle the sound.

But then he stood biting his fingernails as improving track conditions ramped up the grip.

As Liukin received a standing ovation, Johnson stood by, biting her lip and fighting tears.

I stood still, biting the inside of my bottom lip, picking my fingernails bare.

Putner's satire on the supposedly streetwise US stand-up scene is biting: he conveys masterfully the gulf between Stevens's self-image and the bathetic reality.

The hardest-core birder stands all day in biting wind and salt spray, staring into fog or glare in the hope of glimpsing something unusual.

And without Chad Pennington, who stood on the sideline biting the fingernails protruding from the cast on his fractured left wrist, 39-year-old Vinny Testaverde appeared rusty.

Yet when Cowen leaves his memoir behind and thinks of himself as an owl or a butterfly or a fox caught in a snare the book lights up: "There is no pain, only numbness, and for a moment he forgets his bonds and tries to stand… Licking, pulling and biting the wire again agitates the cut further… it boils up with fresh blood until it's too tender even for his tongue to touch".

He has been doing well in televised debates, raising taboo subjects, such as the nuclear stand-off with world powers, biting international sanctions, the dire state of the economy and Iran's extreme isolation in the international community.

When you feel you cannot stand another bite, then just push the plate slightly away from you, and just sit till others finish.