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Example sentences for "stinger"

Lexicographically close words:
stimulative; stimuli; stimulus; stin; sting; stingers; stingeth; stinginess; stinging; stingingly
  1. Even Miss Stinger was in a glow, for she had drank large quantities of the fragrant beverage while piping hot, and in her delight she took Givemfits' arm, and asked him if he ever meant to get married.

  2. You may not know it, but each and every maize seed has a little stinger on it.

  3. She says from my shriek she wuz sure 'at I Had been struck by a motor car passin' by; But when she found what the matter wuz She laughed just like ever'body does An' she made me stand while she poked about To pull his turrible stinger out.

  4. I will give you a defence that will keep off all your enemies but one, that is the Long-stinger Wasp, for you must in some way pay for your loveliness.

  5. There is only one creature now that the Beauty-crawlers truly fear; that is the Long-stinger Wasp.

  6. I've invested in an inexpensive Stinger runabout.

  7. He shot them both and then killed the stinger that was pecking at his shins.

  8. As he stepped through the hole, the first stinger struck.

  9. As he stepped out, a stinger came from under the sill log and lashed at his foot.

  10. The stinger was dead too, three feet from his shoulder, and half a dozen more which had been making for him.

  11. The Harn pulled in all its mobile units, including the stinger it had left at the hole into the other world.

  12. The Harn kept its observation unit prowling irresolutely around the target for half the night before it finally gave in to appetite and sent in a stinger to finish the rabbit off, a carrier to pick it up.

  13. He snatched it up and chopped the stinger before it could strike again, then yanked off the glove and looked at his hand.

  14. He swiveled on his hips and kicked the stinger away.

  15. On the way back, another stinger hit him.

  16. As he struggled to get up, digging his elbow in and using one hand, he saw a stinger darting in at him.

  17. When the old Squire introduced the next speaker, Judge Peters, Senator Hamlin remarked that Peters was a hard stinger himself, as many a criminal had learned to his cost.

  18. Holding it fast, he picked up a pea pod for it to sting, so that he could see how long a stinger it had.

  19. I wish you to know that the proud blood of many victims rushes through the veins of the Stinger Family.

  20. Then, just as these two ferocious members of the Stinger Family rushed at me, I awoke with a cry for help.

  21. Well, if they can't read Andromeda on the journey, they can at least peruse a stinger on it in this week's Saturday.

  22. It run its stinger into my finger an inch!

  23. There were other bees also at liberty, and one of them, angered no doubt by the turn of events, popped a stinger into the cuticle of Bink Stubbs.

  24. It was Jo Stinger who stood at the elbow of Ned, looking through the adjoining loophole.

  25. This was hardly likely; though, as Stinger himself had declared, the danger would be very imminent when a large number were burning at the same time on different portions of the top of the building.

  26. Jo Stinger was moving about in this manner, doing what he could to cheer his friends, when some one caught his elbow.

  27. Jo Stinger gave utterance to several emphatic expressions, as he made a dash for the barrel of water, and he was entirely willing to admit that of all idiots who had ever pretended to be a sensible man, he was the chief.

  28. It was Jo Stinger who uttered the exclamation, and he was facing the Licking river.

  29. Jo Stinger had nearly reached the point from which he expected to "ring down the curtain" on the flame, when he was confronted by an experience altogether novel and unexpected.

  30. The declaration of Deerfoot the Shawanoe and of Stinger the scout that the Wyandots were holding such strict watch of the approaches to the block-house that no one could leave or approach it, was proof of the thoroughness of their precautions.

  31. It looked as if the scout Jo Stinger deliberately invited this manner of his taking off, in preference to torture by flame, or at the hands of his dusky enemies.

  32. Once one of the warriors moved a few steps to the left, and Jo Stinger and Ned Preston detected it.

  33. Jo Stinger drew his chair beneath the trap-door and carefully lifted the slabs a few inches.

  34. Stinger was quick to perceive his chance, and hurrying to the door of the block-house, he rapped so sharply on it that the listening Colonel Preston hurried down the ladder and approached the entrance.

  35. When Jo Stinger passed within the stockade, he fixed the direction in which lay the well, and then began advancing toward it.

  36. Ned darted to the side of Jo Stinger and told him what he had seen.

  37. Having uttered these extraordinary words, Jo Stinger took several steps backward, without moving a muscle of the upper portion of his body, so silently and imperceptibly that he seemed to dissolve in the surrounding darkness.

  38. Wycherly, reckless enough anyway, balked a little at the proposition: "That Stinger is too light and too tricky I'm afraid.

  39. Then--then don't take out the Stinger for a while.

  40. Why couldn't you take out the Stinger for a little exercise?

  41. Do let Langly try out the Stinger to-morrow.

  42. Molly, frankly out of temper, made no effort of any sort; her husband in his usual rude health and spirits talked about the Stinger to everybody.

  43. Captain Stinger was not a model Kentuckian physically any more than his lieutenant; if he had been, Knox could hardly have handled him so conveniently.

  44. Captain Stinger seemed to be confused, and failed to understand the slow movement of his foe, and gave no orders.

  45. Captain Stinger evidently realized that if his men fired in either direction, the troopers would charge upon them, and it would be but the work of a minute or two to slaughter the whole of them.

  46. Yes, if you choose to call it by that name; but Captain Stinger and myself disagreed, and I was not willing to stand there and be shot down by about three times our own number," replied Garbold.

  47. Is Captain Stinger still of the same mind?

  48. It was not much of a swoop; and we have every one of them, from Captain Stinger down to the vagabonds who followed the mounted men on foot, under guard at the camp.

  49. If you will return to Captain Stinger with a squad of troopers under a flag of truce, I"-- "Me!

  50. That Captain Stinger wanted to be sent to Congress before the war; but the people wouldn't do it.


  51. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "stinger" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    dart; fang; sting; tang