Sentence examples for stinging memories from inspiring English sources

He failed to make the Olympic team three other times, but stinging memories of the 1984 Olympic trials, when he lost by a half-point, lingered.

I have stinging memories of MSN bullying, where I was added to a group conversation, only to be verbally attacked by all different group members in an array of different fonts and colours.

Mr. Harvey grew up during the civil rights struggles of the 1960's, and the stinging memories of Selma and Birmingham lingered.

In beating one of his former teams, Fitzpatrick also overcame the stinging memories of last year's season finale, a 22-17 loss at Buffalo that eliminated the Jets from playoff contention.

But I don't think those stinging memories are the reason soccer today is as compelling for me as watching a man with a jackhammer dig a hole in a street.

Well, while this approach might make you a free-wheeling, inconsiderate legend for a night, you will also likely wake up the morning after with stinging memories of a shouting match in the cloakroom queue and a loveless night bus home.

STING Memories of childhood in Newcastle, where he grew up in the shadow of a shipyard, led Sting to write "The Last Ship," a musical bound for Broadway next year.

Cities across the state are bracing for the annual perils of Independence Day fireworks, their precautions made urgent this year by tinder-dry landscapes, hellish temperatures, stinging winds and fearsome memories of last fall's deadly wildfires in Southern California.

Payne coolly details some of her more challenging races over the years, laughing dryly at the memory of stinging sea-creatures, floating animal corpses, menacing shadows lurking in the dark waters below as well as the heavy blows and bloodied noses she has absorbed as a routine part of her lonely trade as a long-distance swimmer.

Those memories sting, not just because I know that I hurt someone else's feelings, but because I know that I was acting out of a place of insecurity and self-doubt.

(One stinging green hangs in the memory).