Read full poem →maiden,
Stung into storm by the speed of our passage, and deaf where we
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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
. stungstung tearsstung eyes
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Poetry examples for “stung”
Excerpts from the ReadingWillow English Library collection.
Read full poem →Nor wheat nor wool nor aught of plaited leaf.
For like my mother am I stung and slain,
And round my cheeks have such red malady
Read full poem →How should I sing when buffeting salt waves
And stung with bitter surges, in whose might
I toss, a cockleshell? The dreadful night
Read full poem →Faint for the flesh, but for the spirit free,
Stung by the mob that came to see the show,
The Master toiled along to Calvary;
Read full poem →As one at the sorest,
Self-stung, self-driven,
And rises up to its very tops,
Read full poem →The thought I called a flower grew nettle-rough
The thoughts, called bees, stung me to festering:
Oh, entertain (cried Reason as she woke)
Read full poem →excruciated poems no resort is had to the veneration for playing that
will be expressed by Hamlet; instead, a proud nature seems stung to a
writhing assent to what is true in Greene’s charge. This is Shake-
Read full poem →Nor for their own wants tear-drops follow’d free,
Worse anguish stung--they had no more for me,
And now hope’s sun is looking brighter out,
Read full poem →Smarting and sweating ’neath the sultry day,
With muttering curses stung, he mauls the heaps away.
Read full poem →And then
The sharp, sleet-stung
Caresses of the cold