Sentence examples for that bit off from inspiring English sources

We'll take that bit off, we'll destroy the root with chemicals and it'll never grow again".

It talked to me through my computer in a cloying and yet convincingly masculine voice (until I turned that bit off) about switching it on when it was switched on and connecting it when it was connected and supplying it with paper when its paper supply was entirely adequate and, above all, it told me big, fat, narwhal herds of lies about ink.

Looks like someone forgot to switch that bit off before the CES show in Vegas.

In Melville's epic adventure novel our narrator, Ishmael, is witness to Captain Ahab's obsessive quest for revenge against the titular white whale that bit off his leg.

8 P.M. (Encore) MOBY DICK (2010) William Hurt stars as Captain Ahab, out for revenge against the giant white whale that bit off his leg; Ethan Hawke is his first mate, Starbuck; Charlie Cox is the sailor Ishmael; and Raoul Trujillo is the harpooner Queequeg in the conclusion of this two-part retelling of Herman Melville's novel.

On that score, Village Voice Media is no different than MediaNews or any daily chain that bit off more debt than it needed when engulfing and devouring and consolidating.

Some will have found that bit of off-the-cuff disconcerting.

There's an analogue in poetry: you're trying to achieve formal harmony but there has to be a torque, something that's a bit off, that lets the sun shine in.

If you look closely and often enough, almost everyone will have a little nodule that can't be completely explained, a lab result that is a bit off, a heart tracing that doesn't look quite right.

"Customers' first reaction is 'pooh, that smells a bit off!' because their normal perception is that these... are farmyard smells.

That is usually how political gaffes come about: somebody says something that is a bit off, not realizing how damaging it will sound on the lips of his or her opponents.