stung

How To Use stung In A Sentence

• Sceptics stung by that debacle may still be wary. Times, Sunday Times
• I sat for a moment, wondering what on earth Kip would have done to me once he learned - if he did not already know - that it was I who snitched, when something stung the side of my face a bit.
• A bee stung me on the cheek.
• Could it be -- and the sudden thought stung him to the quick -- that she was deliberately and consciously degrading herself to what she knew was a lower plane of thought and life, that the bond of their older companionship might still remain unsevered? Phantom Wires A Novel
• A strong odour of hemp and resin stung his nostrils. Spice and the Devil's Cave
• One evening we labored, stung by nettles and mosquitoes, to set up Sewell's camera blind on Otter Pond in the great marsh.
• My eyes stung brutally and I started to hiccup.
• Know that thou shalt not escape unstung, after trampling on the head of a venomous snake, licking the corners of its mouth with its tongue, and who hath been hurt by thy foot. The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa, Volume 1 Books 1, 2 and 3
• On top of that you'll be stung for a £15 monthly fee as well and an additional £20 each time you overdraw.
• The name stung Mr. Renshaw to indignation, as Smith's had done. The Prince and Betty