sting

[stɪŋ]

Definition:
1. To touch your skin or make a very small hole in it so that you feel a sharp pain.
2. To feel, or to make somebody feel, a sharp pain in a part of their body.
3. To make somebody feel angry or upset.

Use 'sting' in a sentence:

1. The application itself will sting and hurt a bit.
2. The barb stung her exactly the way he hoped it would.
3. She still remembers the sting of her first experience skipping an assignment due to the high prices.
4. She burst into tears, stung by the harshness of his words.
5. But the welcome news came with a painful sting.
6. Be careful of the nettles ─ they sting!
7. The woolly hat and padded hood are no match for minus 43C either, and my ears begin to sting.
8. There's always a sting in his words.
9. Yet even benign change can come with a sting in its tail.
10. The police ran a sting operation to crack down on illegal guns.
11. Paul Newman and Robert Redford, The sting.
12. Just apply if the your eyes sting in the process.
13. Death, where is your sting?
14. Thinking quickly, Wasp flew down and gave Lion a sudden sting.
15. Never put any essential oils near the eyes. They are very strong and could sting.
16. When we see that something is just necessary, it reduces the sting of it.
17. This won't hurt – you will just feel a little sting.
18. What had totally pulled out the sting in our hearts happened one week ago.
19. Do you want this anemone to sting you?
20. Stung by recent publicity, the Home Office now seems to be trying to brazen this issue out.
21. I put some antiseptic on the cut and it stung for a moment.
22. Peppers sting the tongue.
23. But the news from Colorado has a particular sting.
24. I was stung on the arm by a wasp.
25. How much did they sting you for?
26. He was silenced by her stinging rebuke.
27. There was only one scorpion. But the sting was in the tail.
28. On September 24, he wrote a stinging denunciation of his critics.
29. Tears stung her eyes.
30. Sprays can sting sensitive skin.
31. I got stung for a £ 100 meal.
32. This won't hurt — you will just feel a little sting.
33. His cheeks were stinging from the icy wind.
34. Julia: Let me think. I like Sting and Ricky Martin.
35. He smiled at her, trying to take the sting out of his words.
36. If we then realize that there's nothing I can do about the fact that I'm going to die, then perhaps some of the sting, some of the bite, is eliminated.
37. Do not think I shall say a word of sting or bitterness.
38. The series foods of the invention are Jane Sting Taste and Children Muddy Flesh, and the like.
39. He's a sensitive lad and some of the criticism has stung him.
40. The stinging slap almost caught his face.
41. A stinging slap across the face jolted her.
42. Remove the bee sting with tweezers.
43. Due to their bigger size, the hornet's sting is nastier than that of a bee.
44. This type of bee rarely stings.
45. When you slice an onion, it makes your eyes sting.
46. The novel is a stinging satire on American politics.
47. The stinging nettle has a square stem and little hairs.
48. Their cruel remarks stung her into action.
49. A very aggressive species of blank ant, the Loma ant, which has recently invaded a certain region, has a venomous sting that is often fatal to humans.
50. The scorpion has a sting in its tail.
51. The November air stung my cheeks, a harbinger of winter.
52. My eyes were stinging from the smoke.
53. Be careful of the nettles—they sting!
54. A wasp or bee sting is painful but not necessarily serious.