Sentence examples for stinging one from inspiring English sources

Still, Lee's defeat is a stinging one for the left-leaning activists, organizations and women's rights groups that flocked behind her candidacy.

Experiments in the lab showed that these chemicals whip the ants into a frenzy, wildly biting and stinging one another--providing a distraction that allows adult wasps to enter nests and hatching wasps to escape.

Mr. Grucci's defeat was a particularly stinging one for Republicans since he entered the race with the edge as the incumbent.

And in musical theater, what bubbles and stings one season will often, after a show has settled into a comfortable run, turn into something closer to fermented grape juice.

Karmic law is such that someone has to feel its sting one way or another.

In this morality tale, Flowers is not just the pervy stripper-vicar of Sunday redtop lore, he also plays the roles of the incompetent banker you can bash and the victim of a very modern drugs sting, one pulled off with the use of smartphones, that places Flowers in the same, weird boat as Tulisa N-Dubz and Frankie Cocozza.

"There must be something in the rumours and I would be very surprised if we don't get stung on this one".

And the last time I got stung by one [a centipede] on my belly.

She explained that on the fourth day of the negotiations she had gone, with a niece, to Windsor Park — while Asif had gone to a polo match — and a bee had stung her on one hand.

Unless you are allergic to bees, it is much more satisfying to be stung by one than by a mosquito.

She was particularly stung by one 'ex-friend' who accused her of a cynical book motivated by money.