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Definition
a very small quantity — usually of food- I ate every tasty morsel.
morsel = a very small quantity
- She ate it all. Not a morsel remains.
- There's a morsel of truth in what she says.
- looking for any morsel of news
- I feared, at first, he was going to torture me by unsatisfactory replies, and either leave me quite in the dark concerning what I wanted to know, or force me to drag the information out of him, morsel by morsel, by direct inquiries.Anne Bronte -- The Tenant of Wildfell Hall
- I was fully aware that I could pay for my crime at any time, so I ate every morsel as if it were my last meal.Dave Pelzer -- A Child Called It
- Where there was a morsel of food on a shelf, there was someone standing in front of it, often with a club in his hand.Jerry Spinelli -- Milkweed
- In this way, you will be able to keep yourself supplied with tasty morsels for the rest of your life.Roald Dahl -- Charlie And The Chocolate Factory
- I climbed into garbage cans to hunt for a morsel of food.Dave Pelzer -- The Lost Boy
- Catherine, meanwhile, in the parlour, picking up her morsel of fancy work, had seated herself with it again—for life, as it were.Henry James -- Washington Square
- 147:17 He casteth forth his ice like morsels: who can stand before his cold?The Bible -- Psalms
- Who awaited them, his beautiful dark face expressionless, and as the last morsels melted on his tray, it struck them.E.M. Forster -- A Passage to India
- As dainty a morsel as ever I grew fat on.C.S. Lewis -- The Screwtape Letters
- He goes down in huge morsels, head, chest, hips, legs, even the hands and feet.John Gardner -- Grendel
- I had gnawed into the unsatisfying books and into my own unstocked mind without finding a morsel of peace or understanding.Maya Angelou -- I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
- In particular I remember a satisfying morsel of chocolate filled with lemon.Jaycee Lee Dugard -- A Stolen Life
- The poor morsel of food only whetted desire.Mark Twain -- The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
- (He eats a morsel) You still make superlative custard, Alice.Robert Bolt -- A Man for All Seasons
- We could synthesize every morsel of food, if we wanted to.Aldous Huxley -- Brave New World
- She could not get her morsels of food down her throat; her lips were dry, and she was ready to choke.Thomas Hardy -- Tess of the d'Urbervilles
morsel = a very small quantity
morsel = tiny bit
morsel = tiny amount
morsels = very small amounts of food
morsel = small quantity