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Examples
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The cop stinged the bride on video, breaking down in hysterical tears, crying over his dead husband just hours after putting those special final touches an a shooting death.
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If such foolish wiles, Contorta et aculeata sophismata, 66 Intricate and stinged sophismes, must perswade a lie, it is dangerous: but if they proove void of any effect, and move him but to laughter, I see not why he shall beware of them.
Of the Institution and Education of Children. To the Ladie Diana of Foix, Countesse of Gurson. 1909
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Never in my life had I seen so many birds, so many butter-flies, dragon-flies, grasshoppers, and such winged and stinged beasts of the air and fields.
Options O. Henry 1886
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Sunderland, who were missing 10 first-team players, started the game with more gusto; Zenden crashing an effort on to the right-hand post, while Sessegnon stinged Hennessey's palms with a sharp 25-yard volley and Phil Bardsley dragged a 20-yard effort narrowly wide.
BBC News - Home 2011
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Singularly-stinged Afflictions, with which _aged_, or _dying_ Saints frequently have their _Death_ Prefaced, and their _Age_ embittered.
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Though it decided to dispose of a PIL filed by one Birendra Nath Singh accusing him of being a fugitive from Nepal and questioning his claim to be an Indian, a Bench comprising Chief Justice K G Balakrishnan and Justices Tarun Chatterjee and Deepak Verma stinged him by saying: “There are serious doubts about your identity. â€
The Times of India 2010
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In it, he declared that every girl who has ever lived a) looked like a flower and b) stinged like a bee.
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Since the ACLU had to defend your druggie limbaugh, and a republican mayor and republican activist head of the boys scouts were just ’stinged’ for kiddie porn – I’d say you’re in the right party to be a republican!
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I'm all stinged up, and I want my supper; and my feet ache, and I'm cold, and everything is _so_ horrid! "wailed the poor child lying on the grass, such a miserable little wet bunch that the sternest parent would have melted at the sight.
St. Nicholas Magazine for Boys and Girls, Vol. 5, Nov 1877-Nov 1878 Scribner's Illustrated Various 1868
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