stinging

Example Sentences

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But “if you start to feel irritation, or your eyes are stinging or watering, or your nose is beginning to run or feel irritated, that’s a little more serious.”

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 21, 2026

The cathedral where Avraamiy usually holds services, decked with gold and brightly colored religious scenes, was filled with acrid smoke, stinging the rescuers’ eyes and throats.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 18, 2026

Nathan Hochman and the union that represents rank-and-file police officers offered a stinging rebuke of embattled City Atty.

From Los Angeles Times • May 5, 2026

The unfortunate Castellanos forced a fine save out of Caoimhin Kelleher late in the first half when his stinging effort from the edge of the area was tipped over the bar.

From BBC • May 2, 2026

They were stinging his face and his hands and his neck and his nose, they were crawling up his pants’ legs and stinging and crawling down the back of his neck and stinging.

From "Little House in the Big Woods" by Laura Ingalls Wilder