sting
Example Sentences
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His film contains gestures that trigger ironic laughs — he’s no dummy — but then leave you with a sting you may be embarrassed to admit.
From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 26, 2026
It’s down 36% since May 2025 as its domestic business felt the sting of price wars.
From Barron's • Jun. 23, 2026
By the time we arrived in Sundar Nagri, a lower middle-class neighbourhood in east Delhi, it was past 5pm and the sun was beginning to lose some of its sting.
From BBC • Jun. 15, 2026
Not winning the Tony for his indefatigable performance must sting, but John Lithgow was favored to win for his brave turn as the baleful Roald Dahl of Mark Rosenblatt’s “Giant.”
From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 8, 2026
I make a foam beard and try to look at myself in the bathroom mirror, but it's all misted up, and then the shampoo runs into my eyes and makes them sting.
From "Born Behind Bars" by Padma Venkatraman
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Common Five-letter Words for Wordle, List 2
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Words with Two Past-Tense Forms That Creeped (or Crept) into English
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