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Example sentences for "smarting"

Lexicographically close words:
smarten; smartened; smartening; smarter; smartest; smartish; smartly; smartness; smarts; smartweed
  1. It was horribly smoky in that car, but Steve declared that he liked it, and Tom, although his eyes were soon smarting painfully, pretended that he did too.

  2. That third period was very evenly contested, Brimfield, smarting under a sense of wounded dignity, playing well together and allowing Canterbury no more opportunities to attempt scores.

  3. The 'varsity, smarting under impending defeat, went at it with a desperation that promised everything.

  4. Still smarting under Breil's rebuke, the Captain felt some show of his bravery to be a duty to the organization to which he belonged.

  5. What a coincidence," she thought, as her heart beat painfully, and a smarting blush came in her cheeks.

  6. He felt as a man smarting from the blows he had received.

  7. The blood flushed to the boy's face as he stood a moment half-stunned and smarting with the pain, confronting his adversary.

  8. It was, however, at times impossible for him to prevent his smarting and his desire to put an end to his ineffectual existence from breaking through the coating of reserve in which he had encased himself.

  9. She understood the smarting pains in which he composed; she had a vague idea of the labyrinthine complications of his inner fate; these she grasped.

  10. By nature proud, cruel, and vindictive, this man was smarting under a sense of injuries inflicted upon him by the restored Suddozye government, and of insults received from one of Shah Soojah’s British allies.

  11. Now go to Mr. Percy to comfort your smarting arse, if he can.

  12. I plunged and yelled under the smarting smacks.

  13. Belfast told me this in the Park, fresh from the scene and smarting from the buffeting he had got.

  14. It was because you were out of sorts with the world, smarting with the wrongs you saw on every side, struggling after something better and higher, and siding and sympathizing with the poor and weak, that I loved you.

  15. The King of Ava, smarting under the humiliation of defeat in a land that had been the scene of his triumphs, determined on taking vengeance with the utmost severity.

  16. Thus, smarting from his recent misfortunes, it was from a idle dream, that this man whose talents have been so belauded, took his directions which indeed led him to power.

  17. He felt weak, very weak; but he had no real pain, although he noticed an uncomfortable smarting sensation in several parts of his body.

  18. Then, as soon as the smarting had abated, he said to his brother: "Give me your knife.

  19. You will forgive, and we know how to forgive, the ravings of people smarting under a conscious sense of their guilt.

  20. What else did your Majesty expect from a man smarting under a sense of injury?

  21. This was a smarting consideration, and was as spurs unto my flesh.

  22. Voltaire, smarting under the insult, demanded that satisfaction which it was customary to give.

  23. As to her, accustomed as she was to homage, she may have felt that for the first time she was justly appreciated, and to her wounded and smarting susceptibilities this balm of appreciation must have been immeasurable.

  24. His history was poured out to her, not as it appears in the cold impartial light of after years perhaps, but as he felt it then, aching and smarting from life's fresh wounds and stings.

  25. He was smarting himself, and if all Frank had to say was that he deserved it, he was glad to have made Frank smart too.

  26. First one hand, then the other, and the same bruised and smarting hands again, just in the same place, and blood-blisters rising there.

  27. On our way we found how bitter was the feeling among those related to Conrad of Montferat against him; and the Archduke John is still smarting from the blow which King Richard struck him at Ascalon.

  28. The saltness of the fluid he was moreover painfully conscious of by the smarting of the places on his wrists and ankles where the cords had been bound that fastened him to the camel.

  29. My cheek was wet, and a smarting there told me the moisture was blood.

  30. I had smiled at these fireside tales of the peasantry, but as I lay helplessly bound on this ninth day of my imprisonment within a few miles of home, smarting and aching under wounds inflicted by gipsy tools, I became more credulous.

  31. Short called some of the men to take Smallbones below, in which act they readily assisted; they washed him all over with salt water, and the smarting from his various wounds brought him to his senses.

  32. Even Smallbones had it whispered in his ear that Mr Vanslyperken had fallen overboard, and he smiled as he lay in the dark, smarting with his wounds, muttering to himself that Snarleyyow should soon follow his master.

  33. Murat was smarting under the Emperor's displeasure for a rash advance on Vienna which had wellnigh cost the existence of Mortier's corps on the other bank.

  34. This Power, bleeding from the wounds of last year and smarting under the jealousy of Russia, refused to move until the allies had won a victory.


  35. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "smarting" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    ache; angry; burn; burning; festering; fiery; fire; galled; inflamed; irritated; pain; painful; raw; sensitive; smart; sore; sting; stinging; tender; tingle; tingling