Read full poem →Of whispering pine trees or the shimmering birch;
But of quick winds, and the salt, stinging sea!
An artist once, with patient, careful knife,
Dictionary Entry
To hurt, usually by introducing poison or a sharp point, or both.
In a Sentence
“Right so came out an adder of a little heathbush, and it stung a knight in the foot.”
Origin
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Common Phrases
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Poetry examples for “stinging”
Excerpts from the ReadingWillow English Library collection.
Read full poem →His warmth, the wall was cold and burning
Like stinging ice, and his passion, chilled,
Lay in his heart like some dead thing killed
Read full poem →If I might see another Spring--
O stinging comment on my past
That all my past results in "if"--
Read full poem →vened) smiled. No doubt the woman thought there
could be no.more stinging insult than making them sensi-
ble of being étrangers. Thought, too, perhaps, that that
Read full poem →And stumble pitifully on to where,
Miserable and lost, with stinging eyes,
Once more I clasp,--and there is nothing there.
Read full poem →The more she said, the fiercer clung
The stinging garment of his wrath;
And this was all before the day
Read full poem →Teach me to hear mermaids singing,
Or to keep off envy's stinging,
And find
Read full poem →He wrapped her warm in his seaman's coat
Against the stinging blast;
He cut a rope from a broken spar,
Read full poem →Though bitter sneers and stinging scorns
Did throng the muse's dangerous way,
Read full poem →Teach me to hear mermaids singing,
Or to keep off envy's stinging,
And find