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38 examples of Stinging in a sentence

Evidently, a piece this big of tentacle has a hundred-thousand little barbs on it and each barb is not just stinging your skin, it's sending a venom.
Raisuddin feels millions of bees stinging his face.
The Greeks couldn't figure out the drones' sex, and part of the confusion was that they were aware of the stinging ability of bees but they found it difficult to believe that any animals that bore such a weapon could possibly be a female.
He suggested, "OK, if the stinging individuals are going to be the males ..." Then he got confused, because that would have meant the males were also taking care of the young in a colony, and he seemed to think that would be completely impossible.
I used to pick up lethally poisonous stinging jellyfish and sing to them.
After failed attempts to build rafts, and a stinging betrayal by local pirates, the rebels made a desperate run to break through Crassus’s lines– but it was no use.
She published two novels, but is perhaps best known for her short stories, which explored small-town life with stinging language, offbeat humor, and delightfully unsavory scenarios.
And when Marwood made the jump, he was covered with wasps stinging him in the face and eyes.
Bumblebees actually crawling inside my ears and stinging my eardrums would be preferable to hearing Elijah Wood robotically spit out his pseudo-profound lines.
Yikes! and we all thought Joan Crawford was THE horror Mommy Dearest...well Laura Hope Crewes as Mom in this stinging 4 character film delivers (and cops) the goods in this cracker of a marital Mommy mangle.....THE SILVER CORD is a genuinely sensational pre code drama from RKO made in 1932 released in '33 from a 1929 play.
It is so subtle and wicked that you start to realize what a stinging satire it really is.
I can't help seeing some stinging symbolic and metaphoric points at the seventies society and generation stuff of the time this movie was done.
This film tried to be too many things all at once: stinging political satire, Hollywood blockbuster, sappy romantic comedy, family values promo... the list goes on and on.
They have had puking, eating pubes-covered pizza, jumping in stinging nettles, naked paint balling, jokes on the smaller guy while heavily sleeping/snoring, stunts in a work place, e.g.
Although she has dated no one since her stinging divorce, she begins a brief affair with Tommy.
Regardless, it becomes evident that the jellyfish isn't the only character in this soap opera with potentially stinging tentacles.
His switch to a southern drawl, the stinging quality of his words, amazed me.
Her tongue was that of a wasp (Stinging and painful).
Anyone who can stomach revisiting the speeches of leading fascists and Nazis of the 1920s and 1930s will find appeals – Benito Mussolini’s paeans to social security or Joseph Goebbels’ stinging criticism of the financial sector – that seem, at first glance, indistinguishable from progressive goals.
That belief, too, seems quaint in the aftermath of the credit bubble that fueled the global financial crisis, which exposed economic models based on rational decision-making to stinging intellectual attack from the behavioral economists.
Honesty is the Best Policy in RussiaCAMBRIDGE: If opinion polls are right, Russia's people are poised to deliver Russia's government a stinging rebuke in December's Duma elections.
Trump’s Shot Heard Round the FootBRUSSELS – The first salvo in the transatlantic trade war has now been fired by the United States, which is imposing stinging tariffs on steel imports from the European Union (as well as from Canada and Mexico).
While Austrian voters rejected the possibility of the European Union getting its first far-right head of state, Italians delivered a stinging rebuke to their government – and opened the way for populist forces to come to power.
President Barack Obama’s administration suffered a stinging (and highly embarrassing) defeat.
Paul Romer, then the Bank’s chief economist, highlighted some of these in a stinging 2018 criticism of the tool.
In my career as an economist, I have seen leaders suffer stinging defeats for putting the country’s interests above their own.
Democrats were hoping for a stinging repudiation of Trump and everything he embodies.
The Alliance has been rocked by Russia’s illegal annexation of Crimea and its invasion of the Donbas region in eastern Ukraine;US President Donald Trump’s stinging criticism; and the United Kingdom’s Brexit-fueled metamorphosis into Little England.
'What's the matter?''You seem merry...' she began, wishing to say something calmly stinging.
Having let him sink deeper and deeper for twenty minutes, suddenly the examiner's face changed, and he delivered a stinging rebuke to Julien for having wasted his time in these profane studies, and stuffed his head with useless if not criminal thoughts.