Noun
The amount eaten in a single bite.
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How many times have you eaten the last two bitesful when you actually did not want them?
This corn is as sweet as sweet corn gets . . . big plump ears, with juice-packed kernels . . . row after row of blissful bitesful.
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[…] the ritual aspect is attractive and the individual may, dipping first in one, then in the other, season to taste, biteful by biteful.
Working independently, each made her way from the main dishes through the desserts, sampling only a few bitesful from each.
Those underlings at the SIP and the sacrifices the Associated Press sent to The Man on the Corner know the meaning of losing weight in large bitesful.
My mother made broth and milk toast and custard and fed my father biteful by biteful.
Begin your meal with soup and/or a few bitefuls of grain, then alternate grain with the most yang food before you.
“In Scandinavia, only after the cow has given her life to the dairy industry does she actually make it to the table,” an agriculture official apologetically said as several of us nearly bent our knives trying to whittle bitesful from oversized and unfortunately tough pieces of beef.
Never have I seen such a collation as was spread before us. (That’s Victorian for a plethora of gorgeous bitesful of sweets).
“You know,” she mumbled around a huge, heavenly biteful, “I’ve been everywhere in this world. I’ve eaten at the most amazing places.” She smiled at Amy’s curious face. “But nothing has tasted as good as this.”
I was halfway through the first biteful of the most perfectly cooked piece of coconut-and-lime marinated cod when this thought struck me. […] I savoured each biteful, imagining as much as I could, then swallowing with a gulp and feeling the berry mash slide down my throat.