Words similar to stung

Example sentences for: stung

How can you use “stung” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

Stung by accusations that it has fallen behind in the online competition, Congress' main political rival, the BJP, said that it prefers a chat format for online discourse and will have a site up and running soon.
It said that the Nobel Prize committee, stung by criticism of its award of the prize to Yasser Arafat, "clearly wished to avoid further controversy by making another award to a man closely connected to a terrorist organisation.
His desperate attempts to bed her make him reckless and seal his doom: Stung by a wasp outside her window, he staggers into school on Election Day with his eye as swollen and saggy as Quasimodo's--and morally hunchbacked, to boot.
A WP business section story claiming that Bill Gates has been deeply stung by the accusations against him and his company opens with an anecdote that's evidently supposed to humanize him but which will probably have the opposite effect.
Another example: periodicals mailers, stung by sharply rising costs associated with the processing of their mail, insisted that postal officials join them in an effort aimed at finding answers and ferreting