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Example sentences for: stung

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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.
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.
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
It also helps explain why the Wall Street Journal 's report that most of the 10 start-up companies funded by Doerr's Java Fund are writing their software in languages other than Java stung so much, as did Corel's abandonment of its plan to make its entire Office suite of programs Java-compatible.