'sting' in a sentence
Learn how to use 'sting' with 5 example sentences.
- sting noun
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: a kind of pain; something as sudden and painful as being stung
: a mental pain or distress
: a painful wound caused by the thrust of an insect's stinger into skin
: a swindle in which you cheat at gambling or persuade a person to buy worthless property
: operation designed to catch a person committing a criminal act
- sting verb
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: cause a sharp or stinging pain or discomfort
: deliver a sting to
: saddle with something disagreeable or disadvantageous
: cause a stinging pain
: cause an emotional pain, as if by stinging
Were you stung by a bee?
Can jellyfish stings kill you?
I got some shampoo in my eyes and it stings.
Those who are stung by wasps take their revenge on grasshoppers.
The seawater stings my cut.