sting

"It's going to sting and I'm going to have to work really hard to make up for this," Kim says.

From BBC ● Aug. 13, 2026

The sting, led by Spanish police, involved searches in 17 locations in Spain, including Alicante, Almería, Cartagena and Murcia.

From BBC ● Aug. 7, 2026

In 2018 and 2019, I’d been gearing up to run for mayor when the FBI targeted me in an elaborate sting operation.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 5, 2026

AI may help people avoid the sting of social missteps, but the relief is temporary, Golden says.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 26, 2026

How Gerhard can sting with so few words.

From "The Boy Who Dared" by Susan Campbell Bartoletti

The fact that Patel has no criminal record and is not required to be on probation stings for San Mateo County Dist.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 8, 2026

"Right now it obviously really stings, so I'm just going to try and let myself feel it today - but try and get over it pretty quick," Raducanu said.

From BBC ● Jun. 14, 2026

It may not be as bad as bailing on the Bambino, but losing Betts still stings.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 27, 2026

It still stings, more than 30 years later.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 13, 2026

There had to be jellyfish experts out there—people who knew about migration patterns, or stings, or other things I wouldn’t even think to wonder about on my own.

From "The Thing About Jellyfish" by Ali Benjamin

But I have strong suspicions you are, and if so, as the children say, "I hope that stang!"

From Time Magazine Archive

Here is a box full of humble bees, That stang Eve as she sat on her knees, Tasting the fruit to her forbidden.

From A Select Collection of Old English Plays, Volume 1 by William Carew Hazlitt

My curse upon thy venom'd stang, That shoots my tortur'd gums alang; And thro' my lugs gies mony a twang,                Wi' gnawing vengeance; Tearing my nerves wi' bitter pang,                Like racking engines!

From The Humorous Poetry of the English Language; from Chaucer to Saxe by James Parton

It curled and squirmed and gleamed, The stang it glowed, red-hot it seemed; Whate'er it touched it brunt and bristled, The very sod it scorched and frizzled.

From A Golfing Idyll or The Skipper's Round with the Deil On the Links of St. Andrews by Violet Flint

"The Lord has taken away the stang of pain out of my life," she said.

From The Men of the Moss-Hags Being a history of adventure taken from the papers of William Gordon of Earlstoun in Galloway by S. R. (Samuel Rutherford) Crockett

But Williamson, 34, hung in and stung the challenger in the eighth round.

From BBC ● Aug. 8, 2026

But please do not do this if you have allergies, or are likely to get stung.

From Science Daily ● Jul. 29, 2026

Though stung, physically and emotionally, Sara carries on with a trip to the Devil’s Mouth caves because her recently deceased father visited them.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 29, 2026

Some stung by the higher cost of living have had to make other plans, of course.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 9, 2026

“Good night, Cadet Fitz,” he said sternly, and the formality of that title after weeks of being just Regan stung.

From "Glitch" by Laura Martin

Determined by a mix of firm and individual performance, employees’ bonuses can elicit reactions of euphoria or stinging disappointment—depending on the size of the check, and the expectations.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 5, 2026

However, this show of support from Fifa executives followed yet more stinging criticism of the Swiss.

From BBC ● Aug. 5, 2026

The pain of the semi-final loss to Argentina has been exacerbated by the stinging criticism he has faced from supporters, pundits and journalists over England's defensive retreat in the closing stages.

From BBC ● Jul. 18, 2026

His most stinging losses were arguably in cases that the court didn’t hear.

From Slate ● Jun. 29, 2026

The cool air is sharp and stinging, and he can see only white in all directions.

From "The Night Circus" by Erin Morgenstern