sting

A sting by the News of the World newspaper paid a middleman - cricket agent Mazhar Majeed - for details of three no-balls.

From BBC ● Sep. 29, 2026

Many consumers are feeling the inflation sting from their monthly electric bills, which rose 36% since August 2021, with ratepayers now receiving $176 monthly bills on average.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 25, 2026

“Primetime” reconsiders the early 2000s NBC hit about sting operations targeting adults pursuing minors.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 22, 2026

The crowd laughed eagerly, but there was an unmistakable existential sting to that punchline.

From Salon ● Sep. 18, 2026

I make a foam beard and try to look at myself in the bathroom mirror, but it's all misted up, and then the shampoo runs into my eyes and makes them sting.

From "Born Behind Bars" by Padma Venkatraman

"I'm excited with the progress that I feel that I've made, but this one stings 100%," said Shelton.

From BBC ● Sep. 13, 2026

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

“But it still stings, knowing how much those were.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 2, 2026

The whole business was entirely in keeping with the season, the twists and turns and stings in the tail.

From BBC ● Apr. 26, 2026

The calmer Jinny was, the less the stings would hurt.

From "Orphan Island" by Laurel Snyder

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

From Time Magazine Archive

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

At a spot where three roads met we encountered a crowd "riding the stang."

From The MS. in a Red Box by John Arthur Hamilton

There is believed to have been no example of riding the stang in Cumberland or Westmorland during the last half century.

From Bygone Cumberland and Westmorland by Daniel Scott

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

I just had to buy a car, which stung, but every other spare dollar goes toward stacking.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 28, 2026

Reader, the subject of the lecture is long forgotten, but the observation stung.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 21, 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

After using his machete to hack his way through the dense foliage—all while getting stung and bitten by wasps and ants—Kermit would set up the sighting rod.

From "Death on the River of Doubt" by Samantha Seiple

However, nearly all of that pattern can be traced to one particular group: the aculeate Hymenoptera, which includes stinging wasps, bees and ants.

From Science Daily ● Aug. 15, 2026

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

His hand rests on his heart as he evangelizes her writing — a surprisingly tender moment of sentimentality from a comedian who has made a career out of stinging misanthropy.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 5, 2026

Jellyfish tentacles are lined with thousands of venom-filled stinging cells.

From BBC ● Jul. 28, 2026

Leaves fell around them in flurries, stinging and smarting when they touched Tristran's skin, cutting and slicing at his clothes.

From "Stardust" by Neil Gaiman