Sentence examples for sting over from inspiring English sources

We proposed to include people admitted with scorpion sting over one year, between March 2009 and February 2010.

At the same time, age-old tricks, which may have lost some of their sting over the years, now have renewed potency, detectives say.

Through June 11 Louise Lawler's canny photographs of art in situ at museums, auction houses, galleries and collectors' homes have lost some of their sting over the years, even as the soaring market has given her plenty of fresh material.

British chancellor Alistair Darling hoped that halving government borrowing in the next four years, through tax hikes and spending cuts, would take some sting over this year's expected 12.0% GDP figure — making Britain among the most indebted nations in the developed world.

It's lost all its sting over the years.

But, he wrote, Mr. Bush opted for a diplomatic approach after other advisers — still stinging over "the bad intelligence we had received about Iraq's stockpiles of weapons of mass destruction" — expressed misgivings.

George T. McDonald, stinging over his exclusion from the final Republican mayoral debate because of his lackluster fund-raising, wants to know why the city's Campaign Finance Board is not rejecting another candidate: John A. Catsimatidis, the billionaire owner of Gristedes.

An angry left, still stinging over the 2000 election and now furious over the shifting reasons for war in Iraq, sees in Mr. Bush's less-than-articulate news conferences a less-than-sharp mind.

Floating and stinging over the antiwar and civil rights movements of the 60's, Ali stumbled into being a symbol of many things -- faith, defiance, athletic courage, racial pride.

With the state still stinging over Mr. Spitzer's resignation, that type of confrontation is something Mr. Paterson, a veteran of more than 20 years in the Legislature, wants desperately to avoid.

It wasn't the worst sting possible (we'll get to that), but its intensity surprised him which is surprising in itself, because Schmidt, a University of Arizona entomologist, has been stung over a thousand times and is famous for developing the Schmidt Pain Scale for Stinging Insects, a four-point scale with descriptions of agony that read like hoity-toity tasting notes for Scotch.