were smarting
- past progressive of smart.
Example Sentences
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Croatia were smarting from Thursday's shock home defeat by Turkey and depleted by injuries to the likes of Ivan Perisic, Bruno Petkovic and Andre Kramaric.
From BBC ● Oct. 15, 2023
But when they boarded the plane back to Washington, the Wizards were smarting over a sloppy performance in Denver that resulted in a 105-102 loss to the depleted Nuggets.
From Washington Post ● Mar. 23, 2014
Perhaps most pertinently, they ran into a Wigan team who were smarting after a narrow defeat at Leeds, and boosted by the return after injury of a hungry Sam Tomkins.
From The Guardian ● Mar. 26, 2013
Chanel’s owners, the Wertheimer brothers, were smarting from losing out on the purchase of first growth Chateau Latour to billionaire Francois Pinault when they settled on restoring Rauzan-Segla back to its glory days.
From BusinessWeek ● Feb. 6, 2012
My eyes were smarting from all the smoke.
From "The Secret History" by Donna Tartt
