bee-stung

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adjective

having a red and swollen appearance: 1920s flappers with bee-stung lips.

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Origin of bee-stung

First recorded in 1930–35

Words nearby bee-stung

Beersheba, beer-up, beery, bee's knees, beestings, bee-stung, beeswax, beeswing, beet, beet armyworm, beetfly

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How to use bee-stung in a sentence

It features a young girl at a spelling bee who is asked to spell “Hagan.”
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How could anyone think that their dislike of the Bee Gees made anything about Disco Demolition Night acceptable?
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In an ad called “Spelling Bee,” a young child spells “Pryor” as “O-B-A-M-A,” to which the judge says, “Close enough.”
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Something stung my elbow and it blew up to the size of a tennis ball.
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Certainly there are some Asians who have gleefully embraced the image of being the diligent worker bee.
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Stung to the soul, Louis threw himself at her feet, to proclaim his innocence of all these inferences, before heaven and her.
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About an hour after resuming their walk, the major went off in hot pursuit of an enormous bee, which he saw humming round a bush.
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The blows stung, and Black Sheep struck back at random with all the power at his command.
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But like the bee, while impelled by an instinct that makes it search for sugar, it sucks in therewith its solid sustenance.
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I am not quite certain that the bee does exactly do this; but it is just the kind of thing that the bee is likely to do.
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British Dictionary definitions for bee-stung

bee-stung

adjective

(of the lips) pouting and sensuous

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