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How to use sting in a sentence

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Greens and reds are bright enough to sting your retinas, but blues and yellows are soft and washed out.
Criminal investigation officers planned a sting operation to catch the young miscreants following numerous complaints.
Police set up a sting operation to catch the man distributing the crystalline drug, known as Ice.
Their operation had been successful for 8 months before police moved in to arrest them in a sting operation.
They were arrested by FBI agents in an undercover sting known as Operation Smoking Dragon.
This basically provides an exemption so that the police can conduct sting operations for alcohol, as they do for tobacco.
Officers planned a sting operation and handed a marked 500 baht note to pay off one of the men.
Trading Standards officers and police will run sting operations to trap traders selling powerful, illegal fireworks or selling to children.
Earlier this week 11 ticket vendors were detained by Pattaya police in a sting operation.
The 12 men were arrested on Wednesday in a sting operation as police and army officials sought to crack down on illegal quarrying.
He rolls along nicely in this manner until the police mount a sting operation and arrest him.
Swindon's Operation Delta burglary squad has been working closely with the Metropolitan Police on an undercover sting operation.
But they demanded an immediate stop to controversial sting operations where undercover police pose as customers.
The nine-month undercover sting saw two police officers infiltrate drug users and dealers in the town and buy heroin and crack cocaine from them.
She would use the nettle to discreetly sting herself when arthritis stiffened her fingers.
Her open wounds seemed to sting with every move and even if the lightest fabric touched her bruises, she was forced to yelp in pain.
I hissed as my left leg started to sting again from the wound I'd gotten trying to escape the last time.
Her words were meant to sting and hurt, to make him feel equally as bad as he had made her now feel.
It is a sting in the tail for livestock farmers who had welcomed DEFRA's decision to reduce the movement standstill from 20 days to six.
If the benchmarking body does not deliver parity of pay, then we will deliver the sting in the tail.
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Examples from Classical Literature
This district is largely infested with the tsetse fly, an insect whose sting means death to almost all domestic animals.
To all these bitter insults, venomed with the sting of truth, Atene listened without a word.
In the third, only one sting was given, but the malaxation was prolonged and severe.
In the third, only one sting was given but the malaxation was prolonged and severe.
But the sting certainly does not exhaust the whole philosophy of the nettle.
Say, that seems like a bunch of those nasty little sand spurs that sting and poison like all get-out!
Aunt Stingy was inconsecutive in her grounds of indictment against Lizarann, and this added to the sting of her injustice.
The pain inflicted is about the same as that caused by the sting of the honey-bee.
Because the goblin bee has stung our own souls, shall we seek to share the pain of its stateless sting with all we meet?
The vinedresser felt the sting of the sarcasm conveyed by Petit-Claud's tone and manner.
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