MITE in a Sentence

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18 example sentences for MITE, such as:

1. 'Not a mite more than I ought, ma'am.
2. Maybe Ah done been a mite wrong 'bout Mist' Rhett.
3. The queer pert little mite gazed cheekily at Connie.
4. Give me another mite of that pone before you wrap it up.
5. All I knew personally was a fine old gentleman who was a mite addled.

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 Meanings and Examples of MITE
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
mite
 n.  very small object or creature; very small contribution or amount of money
Classic Sentence: (17 in 2 pages)
1  "That pie of yours always sets a mite heavy, Matt," she said, not ill-naturedly.
Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In VII
2  Give me another mite of that pone before you wrap it up.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXVII
3  All I knew personally was a fine old gentleman who was a mite addled.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XL
4  And when he come to this country and was pore, that didn't scare him a mite neither.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XL
5  Scarlett's child was a girl, a small bald-headed mite, ugly as a hairless monkey and absurdly like Frank.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XLII
6  Maybe Ah done been a mite wrong 'bout Mist' Rhett.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER L
7  One would not have wanted her white neck a mite less full or her beautiful arms more slender.
The Awakening By Kate Chopin
Context  Highlight   In IV
8  His failure to discover any mite of resemblance in their viewpoints made him more miserable than before.
The Red Badge of Courage By Stephen Crane
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 2
9  They were gulping at their canteens, fierce to wring every mite of water from them, and they polished at their swollen and watery features with coat sleeves and bunches of grass.
The Red Badge of Courage By Stephen Crane
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 21
10  'Not a mite more than I ought, ma'am.
Little Women By Louisa May Alcott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER FOUR
11  "Me wants me Bhaer," said the mite, slamming down her book and running to meet him.
Little Women By Louisa May Alcott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER THIRTY-THREE
12  The queer pert little mite gazed cheekily at Connie.
Lady Chatterley's Lover By D H Lawrence
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 10
13  When I realized this, I hurriedly slipped off my clothes, and, wading in at a point lower down, I caught the poor mite and drew her safe to land.
The Time Machine By H. G. Wells
Context  Highlight   In V
14  I am sure my fancy raised up something round that blue-eyed mite of a child, which etherealized, and made a very angel of her.
David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 3. I HAVE A CHANGE
15  Even this poor little mite, when he woke up to-day, asked the nurse if he might go away.
Dracula By Bram Stoker
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XV
Example Sentence:
1  "I am sorry my mite is insufficient, my friend," said the clergyman, without again raising his eyes, "it is all I have at present to bestow."