How To Use Smarting In A Sentence
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When he went to register the theft, four other tourists were already in line ahead of him, smarting over similar humiliation.
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The Americans were still smarting from their defeat in the Vietnam War.
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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.
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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
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In a country smarting from officialism he felt that he had a strong case.
To Let
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STILL smarting from final defeat last term.
The Sun
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It was salt in the wounds of a Fianna Fáil party smarting from a grass roots rebellion in the European and local elections.
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The girl laid her cheek on the smarting soft flesh caressively.
The Trespasser
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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.
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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
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Campaigners still smarting from ‘the bruises’ of wrangles with education officials four years ago advised parents of children who have been declined places from their primary school.
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Residents in Croydon, still smarting from a 27 per cent increase in this year's council tax, say an extra £20 a year until the 2012 games takes the biscuit.
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Then there are the hockey Kings, smarting from an awful season and paling in comparison to the Stanley Cup champion Ducks.
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Second-rower Nathan Sharpe, smarting from the Wellington defeat when he was captain, had a stormer but, worryingly, finished the game with a shoulder injury.
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Still smarting from having her Junoesque and charming person referred to as hefty, the girl took his proffered arm and allowed herself to be settled beside him.
The Course Of True Love
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Now, Captain, you must call the commodore, or whoever else you feel you must consult about this matter, and see to it that whatever ‘security measures’ are required are put swiftly in place—for I will not linger here another two days while that slander on my crew lies smarting in my mind, and those who committed it sit about congratulating themselves.
Rihannsu: The Bloodwing Voyages
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_Snell_, _blae_, _nirly_, and _scowthering_, are four of these significant vocables; they are all words that carry a shiver with them; and for my part as I see them aligned before me on the page, I am persuaded that a big wind comes tearing over the Firth from Burntisland and the northern hills; I think I can hear it howl in the chimney, and as I set my face northwards, feel its smarting kisses on my cheek.
The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 1 (of 25)
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In these circumstances, and smarting as I was under the recollection of recent defeat, it is not strange that I thought I detected the old political ruse of dressing the wolf in sheep's clothing, of using handsome pledges as a mask to deceive the gullible, and that I assumed that this scholarly amateur in politics was being used for their own purposes by masters and veterans in the old game of thimblerig.
Woodrow Wilson as I Know Him
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Second-rower Nathan Sharpe, smarting from the Wellington defeat when he was captain, had a stormer but, worryingly, finished the game with a shoulder injury.
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My tootsies are smarting like you wouldn't believe.
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Wexford come to the field still smarting from the deep scratches inflicted by the Cats.
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The Audit Commission has extended an olive branch to the Council chiefs who are still smarting after the authority was branded ‘weak.’
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She was liked by everyone in the hospital with the possible exception of one or two of the housemen, who had expected her to be as fragile as her appearance and were still smarting from her astringent tongue.
Politics 101
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In 1996, Kentucky was smarting from the sting of its regional final collapse against North Carolina the previous season.
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And he expressed no fear about going up against a Democratic opposition, still smarting from election losses and gearing up to fight him every step of the way.
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He is still smarting about it.
Times, Sunday Times
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He is still smarting about it.
Times, Sunday Times
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These words were scarce pronounced, when Mr. Clarke approaching one of the bravadoes, who had threatened to crop his ears, bestowed such a benediction on his jaw, as he could not receive without immediate humiliation; while Timothy Crabshaw, smarting from his broken head and his want of supper, saluted the other with a
The Life and Adventures of Sir Launcelot Greaves
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The elaborate stunt and special-effect sequences still manage to be breath-taking -- but it's probably useful (and pointless) to recall that much of the appeal of the original M:I (and at least the first couple of movies) was the element of outsmarting the villains (and the audience), as opposed to outrunning or outgunning him.
Marshall Fine: Movie Review: Mission: Impossible - Ghost Protocol
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He is still smarting about it.
Times, Sunday Times
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This causes some smarting, but it is effectual; it kills the _acarus_, (itch animalcule) and in a few days the sores heal, the itching all subsides immediately.
An Epitome of the Homeopathic Healing Art Containing the New Discoveries and Improvements to the Present Time
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Ireland are certain to be given a robust challenge by a team still smarting from the disappointment of conceding three goals to Netherlands in the last seven minutes of their tie on Saturday.
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STILL smarting from final defeat last term.
The Sun
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I was smarting from the realisation that nothing was every going to happen between me and my friend, and I couldn't focus enough to be involved with someone else, even someone as kind as the waiter.
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The police are still smarting from their failure to prevent the robbery.
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He is still smarting about it.
Times, Sunday Times
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The Chinese are outsmarting us in every possible way in our trade relationship.
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Even with jillions of Shrek 2 DVD's selling, they'll still be smarting from the thud-in-waiting of Father of the Pride and the wiffle-to-be Shark Tale.
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My tootsies are smarting like you wouldn't believe.
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In 1996, Kentucky was smarting from the sting of its regional final collapse against North Carolina the previous season.
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Clarets chief Cotterill was smarting after seeing referee Colin Webster ignore his side's appeals for two late spot kicks after Ian Moore had already missed a late penalty.
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Toledo, I must needs confess and acknowledge that veritably the devils cannot be killed or die by the stroke of a sword, I do nevertheless avow and maintain, according to the doctrine of the said diabology, that they may suffer a solution of continuity (as if with thy shable thou shouldst cut athwart the flame of a burning fire, or the gross opacous exhalations of a thick and obscure smoke), and cry out like very devils at their sense and feeling of this dissolution, which in real deed I must aver and affirm is devilishly painful, smarting, and dolorous.
Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel
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Shelbourne were still smarting from a penalty decision that went against them within fifteen seconds of the start of the second half and trailed 1-2 at the time.
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Even the action groups, who are still smarting from failing to win a single board seat and Treves's dogged refusal to co-opt any of them on to the board, wholeheartedly support his chairmanship.
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They are meeting for the eighth time and Spain, winners in 2000, 2004, 2008 and 2009, will still be smarting from defeat in the quarter-finals last year in Clermont-Ferrand.
National pride provides fuel for Djokovic and Nadal
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My eyes are more than prickling now, they're smarting, and tears are rolling down my cheeks.
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At any rate, here you are, sitting in your room, wounds smarting from the rejection.
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STILL smarting from final defeat last term.
The Sun
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The Sea is heaven's own blue like a diamond more lovely in a king's diadem than in the mines of the Indes but as it gushes up through the broken ice-like salt, it is black, full of asphalte scum - and in the hand slimy, and smarting as a sting.
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They're still smarting from their defeat in the final.
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With many investors still smarting after the destruction of equity - based investments, there is a clamour for safer havens for longer term savings.
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And while the Kray twins (whose gangster crime spree was a '60s sensation) aren't quite as notorious on these shores as Jack the Ripper, the murders and maimings echoing the Kray mayhem are just as gut-churning a challenge for DI Chandler (Rupert Penry-Jones), still smarting from his reputation as "the man who failed to find the Ripper.
Critic's Guide to Wednesday TV: The SNL Comedy Invasion, A New Whitechapel Case, and More!
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Smarting after a succession of high-profile scandals, both have been eyeing up the immigrant sector to boost branch footfall.
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While still smarting from the body blows, Mnisi appeared to be cautious while Dintsi suddenly burst into action with his jab and controlling the round.
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STILL smarting from final defeat last term.
The Sun
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They are still smarting from the 40 defeat last week.
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With many investors still smarting after the destruction of equity - based investments, there is a clamour for safer havens for longer term savings.
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He is still clearly smarting from the wounds from this film.
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STILL smarting from final defeat last term.
The Sun
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Still smarting from the terrible interruption to their plans by those cunning security measures in airports - what wily geniuses the enemy are to have thought of making the check-in staff ask such questions!
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He is still smarting about it.
Times, Sunday Times
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This was on top of the fact that at that time he was smarting from various other frustrations with Singapore and perhaps some of the other ASEAN members.
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Chen's removal, under such circumstances, would amount to a kind of legalized coup by the Kuomintang, which is still smarting from its historic loss of the presidency in the March election.
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Tamara, still smarting with pain, just cried as Penelope walked out of the house in jealous rage and did not return.
