Sentence examples for sting back from inspiring English sources

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Bloodied lips and Logan's bruised ego could mean only one thing: after its recent struggles, Rutgers has its sting back.

Maybe it's because "Bonnie and Clyde," by making us care about the robber lovers, has put the sting back into death.

Mrs. Harrigan's nasty!" The words sailed out, and carried some of the sting back in her direction.

After Mr. Campbell tattooed three of Sting's adult children, he said, the singer and his wife, Trudie Styler, put him up at their house in London when he was there for a gallery show in October (he said he paid Sting back by giving him a tattoo, a meditation labyrinth on his back).

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It is also a little sharp, so it stings back at you, puts you in your place.

William Wayne Justice certainly did -- and his detractors stung back, with death threats and hate mail.

The rejections stung; looking back, he said, he was trying too hard.

The sun was directly overhead and the acrid smell of burning plastic stung the back of her throat.

In a long, stinging telegram back to Mr. Nehru, Mr. Tata minced no words: I CAN ONLY DEPLORE THAT SO VITAL A STEP SHOULD HAVE BEEN TAKEN WITHOUT GIVING US A PROPER HEARING The pain of having his airline snatched away in this manner never entirely dissipated.

Hot, angry tears stung the back of my eyes as I walked out to my car, and here's why.

You might also consider growing your own venomous stinger and learning how to sting the bees back.

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