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Example sentences for "little bit"

  • We-ell, of course that does count a little bit.

  • I read a little bit in it every little while.

  • I felt there was a little bit of good left, that even a poor dunce like me could do, and she could approve--if she can look down and see me, as I hope she can.

  • I thank you; but wine cannot cheer me: a little bit of good news to take back to my anxious children, that would cheer me, madam.

  • Give me a kiss then, mamma," said the impudent boy, "and I will tell you a little bit of good news.

  • No," said the old man; "I have a little bit of ground behind my house, which is my principal means of support.

  • Because I happen to be curious to have a little bit of gossip about Master and the lady, to dare to play at fast and loose with me!

  • I could make shift to chalk a little bit, I think, if I was put to it,' said Toodle after some reflection.

  • If nudity be so chaste, and Trilby didn't mind the exposure even a little bit, why should he hesitate?

  • And though she be pure as a vestal virgin of Rome's best days she secretly despises the man with whom she does not have to stand just a little bit on the defensive.

  • Shelley said you were a little bit of a man, with watery blue eyes, and whiter hair than mine.

  • She looked back a little bit, and then she laughed as hard as she could.

  • She was a little bit of a woman, coloured like a wild rose petal, face and body--a piece of pink porcelain Dutch, father said.

  • Then I went to Candace and she put a little bit of butter and a speck of lard in a skillet, and cooked the fish brown.

  • The wan remains of a little bit of fur lay round her throat.

  • To men she was a little bit of strangely interesting, not too usual, flesh and blood; to women, she was that which made men turn to look at her.

  • You won't compliment me with a little bit of jealousy?

  • After all, it's only a little bit of love.

  • But, as Patrick said to Kathleen, when she owned to such a little bit, 'that's the best bit of all!

  • I suppose we had better put off settling our little bit of business till another time?

  • If the old man had not been a little bit out of humour with his adopted daughter he would probably have found some excuse for getting rid of the inopportune visitor.

  • The girl's a little bit afraid,' says the priest.

  • I feel a little bit out of the running,--that's all.

  • He has, of course, the right to speak authoritatively, and he laughs at my theory that there was a crack in Pansay's head and a little bit of the Dark World came through and pressed him to death.

  • The runners have been very quick,' says Billy Fish, with a little bit of a laugh.

  • You would credit anything about Russia's designs on India, or the recommendations of the Currency Commission; but a little bit of sober fact is more than you can stand!

  • A little bit of old world life and entire want of earnestness, preserved as though it were a smile in amber.

  • The Italians set great store by a little bit of bella pianura, or level ground; to them it is as precious as a hill or rock is to a Londoner out for a holiday.

  • I am so glad you are able to be out a little bit.

  • Poor dear girl, there is nothing anyone can say that will help even a little bit.

  • Something fine and rare and sterling--something just a little bit near to being worthy of the honour of being owned by Jim.

  • Old man Riddle don't like me a little bit," went on the uneasy suitor, bent upon marshalling his arguments.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "little bit" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.


    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    little about; little basket; little blue; little breathlessly; little breeze; little corner; little faith; little glass; little golden; little gray; little green; little interest; little known; little lady; little laugh; little maiden; little onion; little pile; little pleased; little poem; little rice; little sadly; little season; little silver; little worth; present myself