Example Sentences

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"The media world is unrecognisable from the one he stepped into seventy years ago and the decision to scrap plans to reunite his empire must have smarted."

From Reuters • Sep. 21, 2023

It must have smarted that he was the only one of the "I Love Lucy" four principals not nominated for an acting Emmy for the show.

From Salon • Jan. 2, 2022

“If I had been told to get out of the street as a teenager, there would have been a distinct possibility that I might have smarted off,” Mr. Paul wrote.

From New York Times • Aug. 14, 2014

“If I had been told to get out of the street as a teenager, there would have been a distinct possibility that I might have smarted off,” he wrote.

From Washington Post

For the Nations have smarted sufficiently by suffering Officers to continue long in an Office, or to remain in an Office by hereditary succession.

From The Digger Movement in the Days of the Commonwealth As Revealed in the Writings of Gerrard Winstanley, the Digger, Mystic and Rationalist, Communist and Social Reformer by Berens, Lewis Henry