Sentence examples for it was stung from inspiring English sources

The London Philharmonic, which said it was stung in an embezzlement scam by its finance director, lost far more money than was originally reported.

It comes six years after IBM sold its PC division to Lenovo, and NEC's delay means it was stung with more losses and got less for the business.Toshiba said in December that it would outsource production of some logic chips.

But it was stung into mounting a sustained counter attack, which saw Margaret Hodge hold her Barking parliamentary seat in 2010, crushing BNP leader Nick Griffin in the process.

Rock's opening monologue was not only funnier than most in recent memory; it was stinging enough to ricochet through the rest of the evening, as the inevitable cavalcade of white presenters and winners took the mike.

But after five laps sweat was coming down in my eyes and it was stinging".

She was pressing too hard and it was stinging, but I didn't want to say anything.

As the prey blunders into contact with the tentacle, it is stung by nematocysts that penetrate its integument to deliver potent toxins.

Deise Tigrona raps in the ungainly four-bar style of nineteen-eighties hip-hop, haranguing you as though you'd broken her heart, and her body: "It is stinging but I can take it, scratching but I can take it.

It's stinging that this comes only a week after Baroness Sally Morgan, chairwoman of Ofsted, suggested that two-year-olds from disadvantaged families should be enrolled in schools in England.

For instance, the patient Schneider was unable to localize where a mosquito was stinging him, and yet, was able to scratch his leg where he was stung (it was later found that this patient faked part of his symptoms, for details see Goldenberg, 2003).

He was stung.