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Example sentences for "stung"

Lexicographically close words:
stumped; stumping; stumps; stumpy; stun; stunk; stunned; stunner; stunning; stunningly
  1. Terrified and stung with excruciating pain, it ran hither and thither, bleating and making a great outcry.

  2. It seemed as if he could feel all the prods that he had received from the stick at once, and each stung him with a new pain.

  3. The hunter was of course not in search of bears, so the two charges of number four shot did not have a mortal effect upon the quarry, but at such close range they penetrated quite deeply into his flesh and stung him with an excruciating pain.

  4. The unconscious sarcasm stung her to the quick.

  5. A sudden access of passion stung the latter into life; he pushed the face away from him and gathering all his strength, half struggled to his feet.

  6. The slight stung Clifford for the instant, but, replacing his hat and straightening himself with an air of conscious superiority, he went on his way, and half an hour later had forgotten the existence of the man.

  7. Under that insult his blood stung as under the stroke of a dog-whip.

  8. John Ringo's pony jogged on and on; the fine dust rose from its hoofs, surrounding animal and rider like a moving wraith of fog, settling down upon their sweating skins in a whitish-gray film which stung like fire.

  9. White settlers, stung to reprisals by the barbarity of successive massacres, hunted down several bands of the Apaches at their rancherias and wiped them out in night attacks, men, women, and children.

  10. By my manner he was in a certain degree encouraged to lay aside his usual reserve, and relax his stateliness; till some abrupt observation or interrogatory stung him into recollection, and brought back his alarm.

  11. The slightest breath of dishonour would have stung him to the very soul.

  12. In the indignation of all around him he found a ghost that haunted him with every change of place, and a remorse that stung his conscience, and exterminated his peace.

  13. He believed that the match was in every respect such as to flatter the ambition of Mr. Falkland; and he was stung even to madness by the idea of being deprived of the object dearest to his heart by this tramontane upstart.

  14. This onset of the maddened heart nought Phegeus might abide, But cast himself before the steeds, and caught and wrenched aside The bit-befoaming mouths of them, the heart-stung hurrying steeds.

  15. Animated by the blind devotion of the animal for its master, and further stung to action by that master's doubt of his fidelity, the giant had followed to assist as he might.

  16. Thorpe's suspicions stung him, but his simple mind could see no direct way to explanation.

  17. The deliberate reference to the revivalist fellow stung Canning like the flick of a glove in his face.

  18. Round and round them pulsed the great warm tide of real life, and, stung by this mad blindness, men sweated and fought their lives away trying to scramble up out of the enriching stream upon a sterile little island.

  19. Naturally he had been annoyed and offended--stung even into the rudeness of abandoning her in a summer-house to an entire stranger.

  20. Being capable of simultaneous points of view, he had been stung by that cool phrase of Betty's concerning "Jasper's guilt.

  21. Joan's too expressive look had stung the old soreness of his disillusionment.

  22. The frosty air was still about her and her face was lightly stung to color with exercise.

  23. And she was lost--and yet I breathed, But not the breath of human life: A serpent round my heart was wreathed, And stung my every thought to strife.

  24. This remark stung him to the soul, for he wished not only to occupy the public mind, but to command, by his genius, public esteem.

  25. Byron knew of the charge that had been whispered against his sister and himself, and, knowing it to be false, it stung him to the heart.

  26. She had always been kind to him; her kindness stung him now, for he knew that it was because of Warry; and a resolve woke in him suddenly.

  27. Her grief stung him; a great wave of tenderness swept over him, but it was followed by a wave of terror.

  28. Stung at this, Gudrun retorts that not Gunnar but Sigurd had penetrated the flames and had taken from her the fateful ring "Andvaranaut", which she then shows to her rival in proof of her assertion.

  29. Her tone, changing from cold indifference to the most severe disdain, stung me into self-pity for my stupidity in having sought her.

  30. My eyes were smarting from the smoke of the last shot, and my cheek stung where the burnt powder had struck my face.

  31. But one had promised oneself revenge for the scorn that had stung like fire.

  32. So brave a spirit dwelt in his little breast, that the sob that heaved it and the tears that stung his eyelids and dimmed his goggles, were swallowed and blinked away as soon as shed.

  33. Those strange eyes stung as they fastened on you and sucked at you, somehow making you think of a tiger lurking in a cave of ice.

  34. She half-rose, stung by an impulse of escape, when she saw von Herrnung approaching, and then controlled herself and sat down again.

  35. She laughed, driving back the hot salt tears that stung her eyelids.

  36. She nipped her little lower lip, stung by the tone of sympathetic proprietorship.

  37. Saxham's steady hand touched Patrine's in transferring the receiver of the telephone, and the chill of it stung like the touch of death.

  38. Not only the bearded man whose look had stung so, but the close-shaven old Colossus with the tortoiseshell-mounted pince-nez on his thick heavy nose and the huge wart on his yellow cheek.

  39. As he requested, the subject was allowed to drop by those present, but not before they had stung poor Barton almost to madness.

  40. Fownes, hotly, as if her words stung him.

  41. Her courage returned to her, stung into action by the natural sense of indignation which the presence of the Countess provoked.

  42. Stung by the insult, Mrs. Ferrari instantly answered her: 'I am no more drunk or mad than you are!

  43. Stung by the bare thought of it, he ran out into the hall again, and opened the door.

  44. Hardly had he put out his candle when the vermin attacked and stung him.

  45. When at school, I was told to rub the stung part over with a dock leaf, but I do not think this ever did it any good.

  46. A French botanist was once stung by one of these nettles in the Botanical Gardens of Calcutta; he says the pain so affected the lower part of his face that he feared lock-jaw.

  47. I have only tumbled down, papa, amongst these nasty nettles, and got stung rather sharply.

  48. I socked that tree so fierce with my stick, that my hands stung so bad they were almost numb; the stick broke in the middle and one end of it flew ahead to where Circus and Dragonfly were and nearly hit them.

  49. But just as he cast the stone, the Ant stung him in the heel, so that the pain made him miss his aim, and the startled Dove flew to safety in a distant wood.

  50. The next instant he flew at the Lion and stung him sharply on the nose.

  51. Guessing what the Bear was after, the Bee flew at him, stung him sharply and then disappeared into the hollow log.

  52. Again and again the Gnat stung the Lion, who now was roaring terribly.

  53. She drew back, stung to the quick of her pride.

  54. Sassoon only wants to be stung out of a lethargy.

  55. Snyder had snatched the child from her--Snyder as she had never seen her before, towering, with tortured eyes, stung to the quick.

  56. She drew herself up, stung to the soul, prey to an anger that swept aside all caution.


  57. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "stung" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.