Sting
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62 examples of Sting in a sentence
Ricardo Tubbs(..the ever smooth and cool Philip Michael Thomas), a cop in New York, traces a Colombian crimelord to Miami(..his brother was murdered by this man's gun-toting henchmen after a transfer of dope money, interfering with their drug sting)where the city's undercover detective Crockett(Don Johnson) has been attempting to catch him as well.
A subsequent
sting
from a jellyfish while swimming also leaves Chris physically scarred, further bruising her ego.
How much better can a song about the eductive power of alcohol start than with these immortal lines: "Mai Tai say that I'm Old-Fashioned / Tres vin ordinaire / That I want a fresh Manhattan / With white Anglo-Saxons everywhere / A Black Russian's / No Pink Lady / Give her the Singapore Sling / And Moscow Mule is not your baby / So Highball the Vodka and name your
sting"
?
Liu Jian (aka "Johnny") is a top level cop from Bejing on temporary assignment in Paris to aid French police in a
sting
operation to take down a Chinese heroine kingpin.
This movie has a masterful
sting
in the tail.
Never mind that the eye-popping growth projections in Representative Paul Ryan’s budget plan, for example, are utterly implausible; these projections matter politically, because, without them, the full
sting
of Ryan’s proposed Medicare cuts would be readily apparent.
Somehow Zuma must find a way to honor his own generation’s commitment to racial justice and national liberation, while empowering the masses who daily suffer the
sting
of class differences and yearn for material gain.
The threat of sanctions remains potent, and the Iranian business community – not to mention the public – has felt the
sting
of isolation.
The EEU is seen by its advocates as a step toward re-establishing the old Soviet frontiers in the form of a voluntary economic and political union, modeled on the EU – a project to take the
sting
out of the West’s “victory” in the Cold War.
Of course, falling gas prices are occurring in Europe as well, and this will help take the
sting
out of the controversial VAT increase engineered by German Chancellor Angela Merkel.
The more immediate
sting
in the Australian White Paper is for China.
But there is a
sting
in the tail.
Mathematical whiz kids developed new financial instruments, which, by promising to rob debt of its sting, broke down the barriers of prudence and self-restraint.
The marketization of everything sharpens the
sting
of inequality.
Poor farmers will feel the
sting
of these changes at the same time the world needs their help to feed a growing population.
Socrates in Silicon ValleyLONDON – If Socrates’s gadfly was in Silicon Valley, it would have a lot of lazy horses to
sting.
The Iranian regime may benefit from the ouster or weakening of pro-Western Arab leaders and regimes in Egypt, Jordan, and Saudi Arabia, but Iran’s initial encouragement of the democratic uprisings in Tunisia and Egypt came with a
sting
in the tail.
Given Tokayev’s former position as UN deputy secretary-general, this condemnation should
sting.
In his ears rang incessantly a variety of sounds: now of a busy working bee flying swiftly past, now of a buzzing idle drone, then of the excited bee sentinels guarding their treasure from a foe and prepared to
sting.
Among cartilaginous fish: some brook lamprey, a type of eel fifteen inches long, head greenish, fins violet, back bluish gray, belly a silvery brown strewn with bright spots, iris of the eye encircled in gold, unusual animals that the Amazon's current must have swept out to sea because their natural habitat is fresh water;
sting
rays, the snout pointed, the tail long, slender, and armed with an extensive jagged sting; small one-meter sharks with gray and whitish hides, their teeth arranged in several backward-curving rows, fish commonly known by the name carpet shark; batfish, a sort of reddish isosceles triangle half a meter long, whose pectoral fins are attached by fleshy extensions that make these fish look like bats, although an appendage made of horn, located near the nostrils, earns them the nickname of sea unicorns; lastly, a couple species of triggerfish, the cucuyo whose stippled flanks glitter with a sparkling gold color, and the bright purple leatherjacket whose hues glisten like a pigeon's throat.
Julien felt a
sting
of irritation, and yet she was right.
my poor father - ""There is the
sting
of death; but he is a soldier and a Christian.
"With whom!" exclaimed the colonel, turning pale, and shrinking as from the
sting
of an adder.
Then listen, not to dulcet harmony, but to a discord wrung by mad despair out of this bosom's depths of bitterness, to ease my heart and plant a
sting
in thine.
To thee, great hero who all praise transcends,La Mancha's lustre and Iberia's star,Don Quixote, wise as brave, to thee I say—For peerless Dulcinea del TobosoHer pristine form and beauty to regain,'T is needful that thy esquire Sancho shall,On his own sturdy buttocks bared to heaven,Three thousand and three hundred lashes lay,And that they smart and
sting
and hurt him well.
Elinor was very angry, but Marianne seemed entirely insensible of the sting; for she calmly replied, "Not so, indeed; for, seriously speaking, I am very sure that conscience only kept Edward from Harley Street.
He is said to have about seven lawsuits upon his hands at present, which will probably swallow up the remainder of his fortune and so draw his
sting
and leave him harmless for the future.
Cherish her, then, whilst you may, for the day will come when every hasty deed or heedless word will come back with its
sting
to hive in your own heart.
Jealousy had got hold of him: she stung him; but the
sting
was salutary: it gave him respite from the gnawing fang of melancholy.
He letthe wine slip very slowly over his tongue, that he might feel the littlesugary
sting
of the fixed air as it evaporated.
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