How to Use champing at the bit in a Sentence

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• Greenlaw has been champing at the bit to get on the field.
  — Parker Gabriel, Denver Post, 21 Oct. 2025
• Silver knows investors are champing at the bit to get in on the ground floor of sports teams.
  — Alex Sherman, CNBC, 26 Feb. 2026
• Fatu was champing at the bit waiting for Punk to enter the fray.
  — Alfred Konuwa, Forbes, 30 Nov. 2024
• But employers are still champing at the bit to hire more workers.
  — Arkansas Online, 6 Aug. 2022
• Helios is harnessing his team, champing at the bit to make good time.
  — J. S. Westbrook, National Review, 23 June 2022
• Everybody’s champing at the bit to put their bird feeders back up.
  — Maddie Bender, Scientific American, 13 Aug. 2021
• And those frustrated customers seem to be champing at the bit.
  — Alexandra Harrell, Sourcing Journal, 3 Sep. 2024
• After the season 1 finale aired, fans were champing at the bit for more, natch.
  — Sarah Felbin, Women's Health, 1 June 2023
• On one hand, companies are just champing at the bit to host them after a few years of lockdown livestreams.
  — Allison Johnson, The Verge, 31 Jan. 2023
• The mayoral electoral horse race is just 11 months away, and the contestants are already champing at the bit.
  — Laura Washington, Chicago Tribune, 25 Mar. 2026
• Elise King is champing at the bit to return to her day job as a detective inspector with the major crime team.
  — Mary Cadden, USA TODAY, 15 June 2022
• Prospective bettors in Kansas have been champing at the bit since sports betting in their state became legal.
  — Xl Media, cleveland, 7 Aug. 2022
• Ottawa once again will have to dig itself out of a potential slide as teams below in the standings are champing at the bit to keep themselves afloat.
  — Julian McKenzie, New York Times, 2 Apr. 2025
• But developers have been champing at the bit to turn the formal naval base into a destination.
  — Justin Phillips, San Francisco Chronicle, 13 Mar. 2022
• Ten months after their finals run came to an end, the Celtics are champing at the bit to return to postseason basketball.
  — Nicole Yang, BostonGlobe.com, 13 Apr. 2023
• Now some attorneys who represent homeless campers are champing at the bit to put these new ordinances before a jury.
  — Calmatters, The Mercury News, 27 Feb. 2025
• Like fishermen, duck hunters are champing at the bit to test the water of Texas’ newest freshwater reservoir.
  — Matt Williams, Dallas News, 29 July 2022
• By the time Cregger was going out with his follow-up, Weapons, Hollywood was champing at the bit.
  — Mia Galuppo, HollywoodReporter, 8 Aug. 2025
• What if WhatsApp had sold to Google, which was champing at the bit to add the messaging app to its own portfolio?
  — Mike Isaac, New York Times, 14 Apr. 2025
• Weidenbach is champing at the bit to impress Michigan coach Jim Harbaugh.
  — Matt Le Cren, Chicago Tribune, 12 May 2023
• Businesses also are champing at the bit to return to normal, although pivoting will be more rushed than some expected.
  — Rachel Hutton, Star Tribune, 6 May 2021
• Penn State’s players are champing at the bit to make a statement in 2021 and a victory over No.
  — Jeff Potrykus, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 1 Sep. 2021
• Republicans — some of them anyway — are champing at the bit to impeach President Biden.
  — Joel Mathis, The Week, 27 Sep. 2022
• This news couldn’t come at a better time for tech regulators, champing at the bit for more ammunition in state and federal antitrust campaigns.
  — Dave Gershgorn, Fortune, 1 July 2021
• Until then, the Spartans are focused on installing schemes and working the basics – biding their time while champing at the bit to get the season underway.
  — Chris Solari, Detroit Free Press, 25 Aug. 2022
• Credit cards are probably the easiest ones to haggle, because every other credit card company is champing at the bit for your business.
  — Personal Finance Columnist, San Francisco Chronicle, 12 Oct. 2025
• On the other, there are, sadly, many who feel that educators do not serve a productive purpose in society and are champing at the bit to see something—anything—put us out of our jobs.
  — WIRED, 28 June 2023
• Montoya has seen his youngsters champing at the bit to earn time on the pitch, and the Summer Cup gives them a unique opportunity to establish themselves.
  — Christian Babcock, The Mercury News, 19 July 2024
• Noah Wyle knew that fans of The Pitt would be champing at the bit for backstory at this point in its run — and boy, does Episode 11 deliver.
  — Ryan Schwartz, TVLine, 13 Mar. 2025
• Go back to 1989 and a digital-first Stan Bergman was champing at the bit to transform Henry Schein.
  — Diane Brady, Fortune, 16 Dec. 2025