Sentence examples for painful sting from inspiring English sources

He recalls little news coverage — indeed, the New York Times reported on the die-off only once, a year after it began — and no public interest beyond local residents, who were happy not to contend any longer with the urchins' painful sting.

The tarantula hawk wasp preys on its namesake, engaging in a ferocious battle that leads to the spider being paralysed with a highly painful sting.

The wisecrack has a painful sting.

The scorpion's painful sting is deadly to small children.

Pogonomyrmex, another seed harvester, can inflict a painful sting.

Their presence in homes is undesirable due to their painful sting.

The starting point for Rock is what he sees as the extraordinary phenomenon of straightening or "relaxing" black women's hair, using a chemical treatment that can cause painful stinging and burning if not applied very carefully, and sometimes even when it is applied very carefully.

Perhaps accidentally, some of them land on the intruder and proceed to inflict painful stings.

The site also harbors bullet ants that inflict one of the world's most painful stings, and a host of palm-size golden orb spiders.

While velvet ant stings won't kill, they are widely known as being one of the more painful stings a person can get," agreed Dr Wilson.

Epithelial cells on the long thorns can release a toxic chemical (saponins) that is toxic to humans resulting in painful stings that can last for hours, as well as nausea and vomiting.