Sentence examples for bitter sting from inspiring English sources

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But the bitter sting of this loss figures to spur another active off-season for the Patriots.

The lyric "where a kiss of love can kill you and there's death in every tear" replaces the former line "where the only water flowing is the bitter sting of tears".

This year's lyrics include "where a kiss of love can kill you/Where there's death in every tear" instead of "where the only water flowing is the bitter sting of tears" - written to address the Ethiopian famine in 1984.

The idea that such a restaurant lurked around the next bend in the American landscape is horrifying, and the bitter sting of such denigrating imagery and words is palpable in Psyche Williams-Forson's book "Building Houses Out of Chicken Legs," which examines the ties between African-American food culture, entrepreneurship, travel and racism.

Not for a song with lyrics as jolly and holiday-spirit-filled as: "… in a world of dread and fear / Where the only water flowing is the bitter sting of tears / And the Christmas bells that ring there are the clanging chimes of doom / Well tonight thank God it's them instead of you" (… and a happy New Year!) But they raised money.

Fortunately, of course, I never did recommend any Asian emerging markets stocks and missed that bitter sting completely.

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No matter the success of members of these cultural minorities in academia, business and the professions, they still faced the bitter stings of discrimination.

Born out of the verbal slings, bitter stings and side-by-side snapshots of triumph and despair from last year's heated Eastern Conference finals, the Nets-Celtics rivalry may be ready to rise to another level starting Monday at Continental Arena.

The rhetoric at these events was bitter and stinging.

Fischl discusses the problem of wanting to win his own sense of the competition (for prestige, for prices) with other artists of his own generation and then the next generation and how bitter the sting can be when hopes are dashed.

The vans still smoldered and set an acrid tang in the air which stung bitter in the back of the throat.

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