Sentence examples for harsh sting from inspiring English sources

I think it's today, yeah.' " Ms. Nyad added, "Swimming is the ultimate form of sensory deprivation," a fact that carries a particularly harsh sting for a speed talker like her. "You are left alone with your thoughts in a much more severe way".

The news of a formal investigation is likely to have a particularly harsh sting now.

Since those words did not appear until the morning after opening night — which was also closing night — they carried an extra-harsh sting.

Quickly, he injected a series of diluted botulinum toxin shots into Ms. Sideris's face, promising a sting no harsher than a mosquito bite.

New players often receive harsh treatment and stinging rebukes.

For example, there's a foolish assumption that "Modern Family" — a network sitcom about a well-off family, filmed in the mockumentary style of "The Office," with a single-cam looseness and confessional closeups — is sophisticated, while "The Middle" (also a single-cam show, but with harsh musical stings and more linear editing, more closely resembling older sitcoms) is dumber and simpler.

The race was a redemptive attempt by Radcliffe, who had failed to finish the Athens marathon and had been stung by harsh — many would say unfair — accusations at home of being a quitter.

Wasps sting.

This swarm can sting.

The words sting.

But the words sting.