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- noun Plural form of
sting . - verb Third-person singular simple present indicative form of
sting .
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Examples
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The sights and sounds of children at play in the water are transformed to crying and tears as stings from the “Beast of Barnegat Bay” bring them running ashore.
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Although some calls to the Poison Center are about spiders, ants and caterpillars, this page will focus on stings from the Hymenoptera species.
Sting Things 2010
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The sights and sounds of children at play in the water are transformed to crying and tears as stings from the “Beast of Barnegat Bay” bring them running ashore.
Save the Toms River and learn about the Bay Buddy Program! « Beachwood Historical Alliance 2009
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The sights and sounds of children at play in the water are transformed to crying and tears as stings from the “Beast of Barnegat Bay” bring them running ashore.
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Most of all, the list stigmatizes Cuba - not everywhere, but certainly in the United States and elsewhere in the world where our country's word is respected and the terrorist label stings and stays.
Sarah Stephens: Get Cuba off the List of State Sponsors of Terror Sarah Stephens 2011
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Those are the times when the "dependent" label stings a little, doesn't it?
You Support the Troops? Well, What About Their Families? - SpouseBUZZ 2007
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"I think the thing that stings is that we lost at home," Wade said.
USATODAY.com 2004
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Most of all, the list stigmatizes Cuba - not everywhere, but certainly in the United States and elsewhere in the world where our country's word is respected and the terrorist label stings and stays.
The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com Sarah Stephens 2011
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The Sanger/Broad article quotes government-friendly sources stating that there were two 'successful' 'sting' operations against the Iranian nuclear program, without noting that at least one of the so-called stings in 2006 was against the nuclear power program, not a weapons program.
NY Times does it again: More 'Judy Miller' tapdancing (Pt2) 2008
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But that most detestable of days is approaching, a date whose name stings as it leaves your tongue like arsenic laced in the tea of disgruntled lovers.
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