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Sentence count:171+7Posted:2017-03-13Updated:2020-07-24
Synonym: distressinflamepainprickwoundSimilar words: stingyfastingtestingpostingboastingexistinginvestingexhaustingMeaning: [stɪŋ]  n. 1. a kind of pain; something as sudden and painful as being stung 2. a mental pain or distress 3. a painful wound caused by the thrust of an insect's stinger into skin 4. a swindle in which you cheat at gambling or persuade a person to buy worthless property. v. 1. cause a sharp or stinging pain or discomfort 2. deliver a sting to 3. saddle with something disagreeable or disadvantageous 4. cause a stinging pain 5. cause an emotional pain, as if by stinging. 
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(61) Float like a butterfly, sting like a bee. The hand can't hit, what the eye can't see. Muhammad Ali 
(62) Rubbing a dock leaf on a nettle sting is said to get rid of the pain.
(63) And not much chance of Fishy learning enough of the local lingo to set up a sting like this.
(64) He felt a sudden sting like the prick of a needle in his back.
(65) Only afterward, on the hike back to the parking lot, did I begin to feel the sting of Red Disaster.
(66) The bee sting had left a red mark on my arm.
(67) She knew it would give a nasty sting, but it wouldn't cut her flesh to ribbons.
(68) Many marine animals are poisonous, and you could receive a nasty sting - or worse.
(69) Until quite recently there might have been a sting of sarcasm in her voice, the anger of the betrayed.
(70) From Balnaan Bridge to its confluence with the Spey is the Dulnain's sting in the tail.
(71) She shrieked at the sting of the blows, which left a red mark down one side of her face.
(72) Starting in the early 1990s, federal agents began setting up sting operations, including several in Maryland.
(73) Sometimes he'd sit and look at it, and his eyes would sting with the tears of despair.
(74) I still felt the sting of her slap on my cheek.
(75) For most people,(sentencedict.com) the reaction to a bee sting is swelling and pain.
(76) Hall kept him moving and gradually drew the sting from his opponent's game.
(77) Passage of the bill would ease some of the sting that the White House has felt since its initiative failed.
(78) Most of the suppliers accused in the sting operations have pleaded guilty to fraud charges.
(79) For some minutes Harry sat extremely still to leach the sting.
(80) Or you can take away the sting of an unsettling situation by overlaying it with positive associations.
(81) Fighting back the sting of bitter tears, Lissa straightened her clothes(Sentencedict), and left the office by a back door.
(82) Her peer group was struggling with the male menopause, of course, but the sting of rejection had been no less sharp.
(83) Walking from the taxi to his apartment, Ross had felt the sting and throb in his face for the first time.
(84) Some years ago, when the Republicans were in charge, they set up Barry in a notorious drug sting.
(85) The indescribable sting wrenched a high-pitched squeal from her throat, as she clutched the leather skirt which covered her burning seat.
(86) We gon' float like a butterfly, sting like a bee. AH! Rumble, young man rumble! AH! Muhammad Ali 
(87) It flicked each in turn, making the plump moons bounce as she flinched from each sharp little sting.
(88) Unlike Sting, Dylan and Bowie, Waits has never looked like a rock star overreaching himself.
(89) Giant wasps noisily hummed around the countryside killing innocent people with their deadly sting.
(90) I thought the blacklist would have lost its sting with the collapse of the price of oil.
More similar words: stingyfastingtestingpostingboastingexistinginvestingexhaustingstinginessdisgustinginterestingstimulatingeverlastingdistinguishdistinguishedundistinguishedstinkstintburst indestinydistinctinstinctassist indestinedpristineburst intoindistinctconsist inobstinacyobstinate
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