Sentence examples for a string of stinging from inspiring English sources

Democrats snatched Republican Senate seats in Indiana and Massachusetts on Tuesday, averted what once were considered likely defeats in Missouri, North Dakota and Montana, and expanded their control of the Senate, handing Republicans a string of stinging defeats for the second campaign season in a row.

A three-foot-long string of stinging tentacles contracted in a flash to a three-inch stream of jet propulsion.

But, like the political class, excoriated as it was by last year's parliamentary-expenses scandal, the footballing elite has been chastened by a string of newspaper stings, mostly involving erotic peccadillos, which have lead to noisy warnings of the risks inherent in giving young males more money than they know what to do with (or rather, which they know exactly what to do with).

This is why Mr. de la Rionda pounced on Mr. Zimmerman's remarks about Mr. Martin — just another criminal coming to burglarize a neighborhood that had been stung by a string of burglaries.

With elections looming as early as March and the center-right government stung by a string of corruption scandals, the state's response to the fires renewed criticism of Prime Minister Kostas Karamanlis.

Stung by a string of terrorist attacks by Uighurs, members of a Muslim minority who live in northwestern China's Xinjiang region, the Communist Party has stepped up an intrusive campaign against expressions of religious identity in the group.

The very next day after Ed's wonderfully helpful post, the Center For Medical Progress released the first of a now infamous string of sting videos which purportedly proved Planned Parenthood was in the business of selling baby parts for profit.

Vaz faced a string of claims against him after a Sunday Mirror sting.

The revelation of a plot to kidnap one half of Britain's top celebrity couple is one of the most dramatic in a string of scoops by the News of the World's king of sting, Mazher Mahmood.

She maintained its circulation with a string of memorable scoops including the Prince Harry drugs scandal and the Countess of Wessex sting at the hands of investigative editor Mazher Mahmood.

Instead he played con men ("The Sting"), petty criminals ("Cool Hand Luke"), abusive husbands ("Cat on a Hot Tin Roof") and a string of tough but vulnerable outsiders.