She had managed to cut a piece of the steak into a biteable size.

The confounded stuff certainly looked of a biteable texture.

As he poked the alfalfa sprouts around into a more even and biteable layer, he noticed his dirty broken fingernails, revolting crescents of black.

Overstimulated by the sheer profusion of information and entertainment, traumatized by the discrepancy between unlimited access to media product and our limited time, we take refuge in what's biteable.

If short stories are gaining in popularity, it may be because they are biteable; they give us, in one or two mouthfuls, something like the flavor of a fuller literary enterprise.

An argument can be made that the savings-and-loan scandal, an unprecedented fiasco that will cost every American $1,000 plus interest, was underreported by much of the media because it was not "biteable."

Cures for the problem can be as bad as the disease: in the mid-1980's, E. D. Hirsch Jr. was so appalled at the lack of a base of shared knowledge in America that he devised, paradoxically, a cultural literacy test that is the ultimate in biteable education.