"sharp sting" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it to describe an intense physical or emotional feeling, either negative (e.g. "The bitter words left a sharp sting in her heart") or positive (e.g. "The icy wind had a sharp sting that was oddly refreshing").
It has occasionally tried to prick the country's conscience over Chechnya; it certainly punctured the president's amour-propre.That Gazprom has been the vehicle for silencing Mr Putin's most influential critic gives the saga a particularly sharp sting.
Each suddenly felt a sharp sting.
The smell was overpowering: sweet and putrid, overlaid with the sharp sting of disinfectant.
The word "tyranny," which has a powerful resonance in the play, carries a sharp sting in Ms. Dumezweni's husky contralto.
When she and her son learned who was behind the scheme, they would both feel the sharp sting of betrayal.
As winter hovers on the edges of the wind, there is a sharp sting in the breeze that blows down from the snow-capped Himalayas.
The man with the meringue hair let out a sharp, stinging curse and slammed the back of the seat in front of him with his fist.
Its arrangement incorporated Kaukonen's sharp, stinging electric guitar lines set against an acoustic guitar opening, with singer Grace Slick wordlessly doubling Kaukonen's guitar line during the instrumental break.
The pain can be different in various persons, but it can be generally described as achy, sharp, stinging and like "pins and needles".[8].
Like a sharp stinger, that finding pokes a hole in the notion that queens are merely mindless egg layers and that worker bees have the final say on whether the queen lays eggs that give rise to males or females.
I also added poblano chilies for a fresh, mild bite and jalapeño for a sharper sting.
