sting

“He came to the sting location,” Corona said.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 27, 2026

Tuesday’s gains take some of the sting out of a difficult October.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 27, 2026

To ease the sting of the deductible, users also qualify for an HSA.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 16, 2026

The Bluebottle drone, manufactured in Sydney, is named after a small jellyfish with a painful sting that washes ashore on Australian beaches.

From Barron's ● Oct. 16, 2026

My face is throbbing and there’s a sharp sting on the side of my nose.

From "Popcorn" by Rob Harrell

More than 3,200 people die every year from scorpion stings globally, according to figures cited in the report.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 20, 2026

Pepsi gets only a small part of its sales from KFC, but the loss still stings.

From Barron's ● Oct. 16, 2026

"It stings the nose, makes you cough and have a runny nose, and makes you unable to breathe... We were forced to leave the house because we couldn't take it anymore."

From BBC ● Jul. 8, 2026

The fact that Patel has no criminal record and is not required to be on probation stings for San Mateo County Dist.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 8, 2026

It stings the insides of my nostrils, so I hold my nose, but it hardly helps.

From "Dry" by Neal Shusterman and Jarrod Shusterman

But I have strong suspicions you are, and if so, as the children say, "I hope that stang!"

From Time Magazine Archive

It's nayther for thy part, nor my part, That I ride the stang.

From Yorkshire Dialect Poems (1673-1915) and traditional poems by Frederic William Moorman

A blessing on the cheery gang Wha dearly like a jig or sang, An' never think o' right an' wrang By square an' rule, But, as the clegs o' feeling stang, Are wise or fool.

From Poems and Songs of Robert Burns by Robert Burns

In raptures sweet, this hour we meet, Wi' mutual love an' a' that; But for how lang the flie may stang, Let inclination law that.

From Poems and Songs of Robert Burns by Robert Burns

My curse upon thy venom'd stang, That shoots my tortur'd gums alang; And thro' my lugs gies mony a twang,                Wi' gnawing vengeance; Tearing my nerves wi' bitter pang,                Like racking engines!

From The Humorous Poetry of the English Language; from Chaucer to Saxe by James Parton

All of a sudden, Bass was a staggering champion lunging at a revived Raman, who swung and stung and ducked the way only a hungry up-and-comer can.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 14, 2026

The club has been stung by the chain of events and believe they have done all they could to avoid it.

From BBC ● Oct. 5, 2026

I just had to buy a car, which stung, but every other spare dollar goes toward stacking.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 28, 2026

At the same time, oil majors lack confidence that the political and legal frameworks are in place to protect their investment after being stung in the country previously.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 14, 2026

His head pounded, the scratches on his arms and legs stung, and every muscle in his body ached from the strain of lifting Abby over the fallen trees.

From "Earthquake Terror" by Peg Kehret

After the stinging rounds of layoffs, Kim said, the university expects to “significantly exceed” the roughly $30-million surplus he forecast for USC earlier this year during his state-of-the-university speech, though final numbers are pending.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 16, 2026

For several days this summer the Albanian city of Elbasan choked in a dense cloud of stinging smoke coming from the direction of its notorious steelworks.

From Barron's ● Oct. 8, 2026

Yonathan Arfi, president of the Representative Council of French Jewish Institutions, said the messages, if really sent by Bardella, would represent “a stinging rebuke of the National Rally’s de-demonization strategy.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 30, 2026

However, nearly all of that pattern can be traced to one particular group: the aculeate Hymenoptera, which includes stinging wasps, bees and ants.

From Science Daily ● Aug. 15, 2026

The garlic stalks, which Mama hated and Doc loved, had recently blossomed into fat flowers, adding their sharp, stinging scent to the air.

From "Root Magic" by Eden Royce