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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?”
These sites were filled with stinging indictments of the government and the mainstream media as well as gleeful cheers for the Web.
Nonetheless, as the WP says, the whole matter represents a "stinging rebuke" for Starr, and the investigation into the grand jury leaks continues.
I put new Blossoms in the Glass--And throw the old--away--I push a petal from my GownThat anchored there--I weighThe time 'twill be till six o'clockI have so much to do--And yet--Existence--some way back--Stopped--struck--my ticking--through--We cannot put Ourself awayAs a completed ManOr Woman--When the Errand's doneWe came to Flesh--upon--There may be--Miles on Miles of Nought--Of Action--sicker far--To simulate--is stinging work--To cover what we areFrom Science--and from Surgery--Too Telescopic EyesTo beat on us unshaded--For their--sake--not for Ours--'Twould start them--We--could tremble--But since we got a Bomb--And held it in our Bosom--Nay--Hold it--it is calm--
Lieberman repeats his desire for a "stinging censure" so often that I am beginning to think he likes whips.