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How to use tidbit in a sentence

11 example sentences · noun

Tidbit means a part of poultry when prepared as food. Example: “He had bits of string, cans of nails and lots of other useful tidbits squirreled away throughout his garage.”

Examples of tidbit by meaning

nounA short item of news, gossip, or information.

  • Maya: Maybe we should leave a juicy tidbit for someone to read!2007 March 16, Capcom Production Studio 4, quoting Maya, Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney – Justice for All, Europe: Capcom, →OCLC, Nintendo...
  • We make note of this historical tidbit simply to emphasize the obvious fact that DC’s current population is far greater than the population of many of the districts of generations past.2021 April 21, Daniel Dale, “Fact-checking Nancy Mace’s claim that DC wouldn’t ‘qualify’ as a single congressional district”, in CNN

More sentences with tidbit

  • He had bits of string, cans of nails and lots of other useful tidbits squirreled away throughout his garage.From the entry squirrel away
  • How buyers and sellers negotiated over a lagniappe—an extra tidbit or bonus—reveals the precarious nature of trust in such relationships.2011, Steven Johnstone, “Haggling”, in A History of Trust in Ancient Greece, Chicago, Ill.; London: University of Chicago Press, →ISBN…. From the entry lagniappe
  • There were loverbird songs and loverbird trinkets, loverbird hats and pins, bangles and baubles, coins and quaffs and tidbits.1953 July, Theodore Sturgeon, “The World Well Lost”, in Universe Science Fiction, number 1, page 16; reprinted as “The World Well Lost”…. From the entry quaff
  • Here are tidbits about this guy interspersed with his Carlinisms, some wonderfully logical, others radically offbeat, but surely all thoughtful and entertaining.2020 July 24, Dennis Simanaitis, “CELEBRATING GEORGE CARLIN”, in Simanaitis Says, archived from the original on 16 May 2022. From the entry Carlinism
  • In less than a year Harry had become the Nero Wolfe of cats, thanks to the tidbits fed to him by everyone.1999, Earlene Fowler, Dove in the Window, Penguin Publishing Group. From the entry Nero Wolfe
  • I toy with shouting some tidbit more – some terrifying, unthinkable threat, some blackly fuliginous riddling hex – but my heart's not in it.1972, John Gardner, Grendel, London, page 10. From the entry fuliginous
  • For zealous Lovecraftians there are a few choice tidbits—a short autobiography, his commonplace book, and his “History and Chronology of the Necronomicon.”1944, The New York Times Book Review, page 19. From the entry Lovecraftian
  • Gerda Simonson, a Swedish restauratrice with many years of experience in New York, has compiled three hundred choice recipes for snacks and tidbits.1935, The American-Scandinavian Review, The American-Scandinavian Foundation, page 378, column 1. From the entry restauratrice
  • The throne speech opening the New Democrat government’s second legislative session Dec. 2 was a modest document featuring caution and pragmatism laced with a few tidbits of democratic socialism.1982 December 11, Frances Russell, “Economic performance buoys Pawley’s position”, in The Vancouver Sun (The Weekend Sun), Vancouver, BC…. From the entry lace

Meaning of tidbit

  1. noun A part of poultry when prepared as food.
  2. noun A tasty morsel (of food).
  3. noun A short item of news, gossip, or information.

Full definition of tidbit

Questions about tidbit in a sentence

How do you use tidbit in a sentence?
Tidbit is used as a noun. For example: “He had bits of string, cans of nails and lots of other useful tidbits squirreled away throughout his garage.”
What is a short sentence with tidbit?
“Maya: Maybe we should leave a juicy tidbit for someone to read!”
What does tidbit mean?
Tidbit means a part of poultry when prepared as food.

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Adapted from Wiktionary: tidbit (page history and authors) and the entries each sentence comes from. Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws chose the sentences, left out offensive ones and quotations older than 1900, and marked the word in each. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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