smarting

How To Use smarting In A Sentence

• When he went to register the theft, four other tourists were already in line ahead of him, smarting over similar humiliation.
• The Americans were still smarting from their defeat in the Vietnam War.
• Reed is still smarting with his side's defence after they conceded four goals in the first 20 minutes of their 5-1 FA Cup first round defeat at Farnborough.
• Then a throbbing in his head and a sensation of smarting assailed him, but he did not stir, for his legs were cramped; and _wash, wash, wash_, the waters were sweeping along nearly to his chest. The Queen's Scarlet The Adventures and Misadventures of Sir Richard Frayne
• In a country smarting from officialism he felt that he had a strong case. To Let
• STILL smarting from final defeat last term. The Sun
• It was salt in the wounds of a Fianna Fáil party smarting from a grass roots rebellion in the European and local elections.
• The girl laid her cheek on the smarting soft flesh caressively. The Trespasser
• I visited the general there and found that he was still smarting under what he called the disgrace put upon him by Stanton. Recollections of Forty Years in the House, Senate and Cabinet An Autobiography.
• Wheeling about choking and strangling from the smoke, his streamingly smarting eyes barely able to discern the fiery trail he had laid. Black Caesar's Clan : a Florida Mystery Story