Example Sentences

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“My eyes are stinging a bit from the smoke, but I’ve never seen more clearly.”

From New York Times • Jun. 8, 2023

The two bones are stinging riffs on the gap between nature and history; evocations, too, of the end of the French empire and the even more horrific Belgian one.

From The New Yorker • Mar. 22, 2016

To some, accusations of climate inaction are stinging.

From Scientific American • Jun. 8, 2015

When our eyes are stinging at the end, there’s not even a whiff of stage smoke.

From New York Times • Sep. 18, 2011

Jellyfish are stinging machines, and their stings are as violent as anything on Earth.

From "The Thing About Jellyfish" by Ali Benjamin