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Example sentences for: stinging

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Hard to say what that means, except stinging eyes, and besides, using half of each of two clichés is simply spilt milk off a duck's back on troubled waters: isn't it “spit and polish” and “piss and vinegar?”
The WP describes a "stinging" 40-page report, submitted to Congress by a independent panel appointed by the Defense Department, that criticizes the government for over-optimism about its ability to develop interceptors, or "kill vehicles," that would destroy incoming ballistic missiles by colliding with them at supersonic speed.
Nonetheless, as the WP says, the whole matter represents a "stinging rebuke" for Starr, and the investigation into the grand jury leaks continues.
These sites were filled with stinging indictments of the government and the mainstream media as well as gleeful cheers for the Web.
It described the U.S. failure to exempt its citizens and soldiers from the court's jurisdiction as "a stinging diplomatic rebuff."