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Example sentences for: stung

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City officials were stunned to think a multimillion-dollar bank might have been stung by million-dollar darts.
Hunting dogs may be stung by scorpions of the Buthidae family ( Tityus trinitatis ). The effects of the sting can be severe.
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.
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.
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.