Example Sentences

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In one scene, a lifetime of heartbreak, emotional distance and hard-won resilience is captured in the simple act of receiving a stingingly careless birthday gift.

From Washington Post • Feb. 9, 2022

By the time I hit 20, many of the girls I’d grown up with were married women, pregnant and glowing with their second child, while I felt convicted, stingingly so, for my selfishness.

From Salon • Jul. 23, 2019

I pick up a few soft, stingingly spicy tamales from La Indiana.

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 13, 2017

The baritone Michael Corvino is the humiliated Tonio, whose aggressive advances are stingingly rejected by Nedda.

From New York Times • Sep. 9, 2016

A dull endless pain in my gut that wouldn’t go away even when I knelt on the stingingly frozen tile of the bathroom, dry-heaving.

From "Looking for Alaska" by John Green