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How to use the word Stung in a Sentence?

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I didn’t move here to try to recreate California, I moved her because I really like Texas so therefore, I’m very hesitant to speak ill of anybody who was here before I was, however f*** fire ants, i hope they get stung in their eye by other fire ants and I hope they have to deal with the itching and the pain and the little pusy boils that come afterwards.

Van Der Beek

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

The yellow jackets, they like to sting me more than the honey bees, you get stung enough times you know what’s coming.

Robert Travis

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

I think if you see my body language during the game, it was pretty clear I was stung by the whole ordeal.

Adam Ottavino

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

Leave the bee removal to the professionals, grabbing bees could get you stung.

Ashley Ralph

Found on CNN
2 years ago

We didn't get any nominations last year, and that stung because I was really proud of our work last year, and so to get two in our final season was great.

Rachel Bloom

Found on CNN
4 years ago

Please if you are stung or your kid is stung get to the ER and let them treat you, i can assure you, we didn’t realize he had been stung so many times (the entire site was on fire and then went numb) and normal over-the-counter Benadryl would not have treated this at home.

Andrea Pergola

Found on FOX News
5 years ago

Vinegar is your best bet if you do get stung, most people don’t have vinegar so you want to get the tentacles off of your skin so you can rinse the tentacles off if you can, you can try to use tweezers to get the tentacles off. For the pain and swelling, heat is what you need.

Shannon Howard

Found on FOX News
5 years ago

With the warmer temperatures there’s more people in the water so there’s a bigger chance of people getting stung.

Shannon Howard

Found on FOX News
5 years ago

I took my body board out past the sand bar and it wasn't five minutes before I got stung, i went to catch a wave and it just kinda stuck to my leg, it was wrapped around it and I couldn't get it off fast enough.

Tonya Kronk

Found on CNN
5 years ago

Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas will not accept for the U.S. to be a mediator, because after what they have done to Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas — a believer shall not be stung twice in the same place.

Mahmoud Abbas

Found on FOX News
6 years ago

Our flight attendants helped a customer who was stung by what appeared to be a scorpion on a flight last week, our crew immediately consulted with a MedLink physician on the ground who provided guidance throughout the incident and assured our crew that it was not a life-threatening matter.

United Airlines

Found on CNN
7 years ago

So win or lose, you appreciate the stage we were on and just that back and forth that we live for, so, yeah, it stung. It sucked to watch them celebrate, and we wish that would have been us.

Stephen Curry

Found on Reuters
7 years ago

It burned a lot, it stung, it feels like shooting pain and stinging. It feels like pins and needles.

Gena Dinicola

Found on FOX News
7 years ago

At that same time, I got stung by two bees in one week, what are the chances ?!

Mikaila Ulmer

Found on FOX News
7 years ago

Our crews were told that a couple kids had been stung but there were so many bees they couldn't get inside the home, basically they just started putting foam on the front of the house. It wasn't a hive, they were swarming.

Mike Connor

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

No one seemed frantic at all, not even the woman who was stung. The flight attendants did a great job, as did the captain.

Mike Parker

Found on CNN
9 years ago

Stung by the splendor of a sudden thought.

Robert Browning

added by anonymous
10 years ago

A person who is too nice an observer of the business of the crowd, like one who is too curious in observing the labor of bees, will often be stung for his curiosity.

Alexander Pope

added by anonymous
10 years ago

The butterfly's attractiveness derives not only from colors and symmetry: deeper motives contribute to it. We would not think them so beautiful if they did not fly, or if they flew straight and briskly like bees, or if they stung, or above all if they did not enact the perturbing mystery of metamorphosis: the latter assumes in our eyes the value of a badly decoded message, a symbol, a sign.

Primo Levi

added by anonymous
10 years ago

One who is too wise an observer of the business of others, like one who is too curious in observing the labor of bees, will often be stung for his curiosity.

Alexander Pope

added by anonymous
13 years ago

When you go in search of honey you must expect to be stung by bees.

Kenneth Kaunda

added by anonymous
14 years ago

To carry a grudge is like being stung to death by one bee.

William H. Walton

added by anonymous
14 years ago

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