Sentence examples for sting us from inspiring English sources

To use Virginia Woolf's words on the essay, he can always "sting us awake and fix us in a trance, which is not sleep but rather an intensification of life".

"You're not allowed to hurt any of them.. "But what if they tried to sting us?" I retort.

More than a few insects are associated with pestilence and disease, of course, and others sting us or drink our blood.

Roth quotes his own character, Zuckerman, to explain this monk-like dedication: "I believe that we should read only those books that bite and sting us.

If we want to properly contextualize shark attacks, we need to compare sharks to their peers -- bears and gators and the myriad other fanged barbed and venomous creatures that could sting us or bite us or otherwise ruin our day.

Morning will come and there will be a new, fresh scandal or outrage to sting us, irritate us or frighten us and then it will disappear like smoke rings from our consciousness.

"The cold air stung us and we played till our bodies glowed".

All right, we have stung them from time to time, as they are stinging us in stirring up Balochistan.

But don't despair at the tried and tested sales technique of sucking us in then stinging us with a long list of expensive extras.

Last week the Tories confirmed their latest greedy and ill-judged effort to extract tax from property wealth, having already stung us with stamp duty increases.

Dressed as if for polar exploration, we sit almost comfortably in the snow as the wind rises again, stinging us with ice pellets.