Sentence examples for a sting of from inspiring English sources

There's a sting, of course.

Its vision of aching discontents in the best of marriages conveyed a sting of sadness.

When Evans is appointed head of Random House, her happiness comes with a sting of dread.

Grete's interview with Jonathan, set in a London gallery, had a sting of topical satire that has lost its immediacy.

That I had barely helped the man had a sting of irony, as I'd just begun researching a new book on empathy, altruism, and compassion.

I thought about this technique during yesterday's widespread Gmail outage, which came as something of a relief, though not without a sting of shock.

McFeely added, "There was a draft with a stinger of him in it.

A short procedure that ends with a sharp sting of pain is judged as worse than a much longer procedure with several stings of pain and two sharp stings in the middle.

A need is expressed for a larger database of test results, and a 'standard' sting of larger relative diameter is proposed for future tests.

His hero, the author of a stinging denunciation of spiritual mediums, finds himself haunted while investigating claims of a ghost sighting in a university town.

The earthy chickpea soup received a bright sting of lemon and was ladled into bowls.