Example Sentences

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Liney, who liked the sharp thrust of his bill where a mosquito had been stinging, was careful not to wiggle her hide and scare him away.

From The Biography of a Prairie Girl by Gates, Eleanor

The men's blood was aflame, and little wonder, for these wasps had been stinging all morning without our being able so much as to see them.

From The Great Shadow and Other Napoleonic Tales by Doyle, Arthur Conan, Sir

I afterward discovered however I had been stinging his boots.

From The Crow's Nest by Day, Clarence