stinging

How To Use stinging In A Sentence

• Despite a string of victories-the judge's stinging decision enumerating Allen's "fraudulent modus operandi," occasional media coverage, and the support of real CIA agents and military heroes-he is no closer to collecting the $40,000 he says was "conned" from his family in 1993. Edgar Allen
• Well, it wasn't rock and roll as you would recognise it but there was certainly enough power and decibels to give the lugholes a good stinging.
• Obviously judges are unlikely to speak about their specific cases or to make stinging criticism of political policy. Times, Sunday Times
• The name, the recognised features, rubbed saltily against his worn curiosity, stinging it. THE LAST RAVEN
• Stinging insects in the U.S. are bees, yellow jackets, hornets, wasps, and fire ants.
• Back beyond even its immediate pre-modern period – what you might call The Andy Gray Years, the dolly bird years – football has always been a sweat-caked man-hole of a place, a realm where men have gone to mope and grizzle and rage and emote a kind of cheek-stinging eau de sexism. Andy Gray and Richard Keys convicted on sound evidence | Barney Ronay
• All jellyfish have stinging tentacles to catch food but these moon jellies have only a short fringe along their outer edge. The Sun
• The orders Orthoptera and Hemiptera are particularly numerous; as likewise is the stinging division of the Hymenoptera; the bees, perhaps, being excepted. Journal of researches into the geology and natural history of the various countries visited by H.M.S. Beagle
• A shower of rain drove down upon us, each drop stinging like a hailstone. Chapter 3
• One was the use of stinging nettle fibres for cordage.