How to Use stinger in a Sentence

stinger

noun

• The longer the stinger stays in the skin, the more venom is released.
  — Christine Sexton, sun-sentinel.com, 11 Aug. 2021
• And a stinger and wrist injury a year ago with the Suns.
  — Kent Somers, The Arizona Republic, 27 Apr. 2022
• Hole 2 - Par 4 Tiger rips a stinger off the tee but finds the rough to the left of the fairway.
  — Adam Woodard, USA TODAY, 5 May 2018
• The stinger got very close to hitting the boys with its tail. ...
  — Mark Price, Miami Herald, 25 Mar. 2024
• Tiger hit a stinger down the center of the fairway that rolled all the way out to 299 yards.
  — Daniel Rapaport, SI.com, 4 May 2018
• Corneal run-throughs with a bee stinger are rare, the doctors note.
  — Beth Mole, Ars Technica, 4 Dec. 2020
• Then the wasp shoves its stinger through the throat's soft tissues and up into the brain.
  — Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica, 3 Nov. 2018
• The room should feel creaky, sticky with spilled vodka stingers; the walls should thrum with the ghosts of chanteuses past.
  — The New Yorker, 4 Oct. 2024
• Both wasps and bees come with a stinger for self defense.
  — Maggie O'Neill, Health.com, 12 May 2021
• While rays do have venomous stingers — near the base of the tail, not at the tip — those have been snipped off.
  — Matt Campbell, kansascity, 1 May 2018
• There's no doubt that the absence of tension is a far cry from the stinger at the end of the first Avengers movie.
  — Caroline Reid, Forbes, 2 Apr. 2023
• This curve of stars marks the scorpion’s tail and stinger.
  — Dean Regas, Cincinnati.com, 10 June 2020
• Ant stingers are slimmer than the width of a human hair.
  — Sabine Galvis, Science | AAAS, 2 Aug. 2019
• Wipe over the area with gauze or scrape the area with a fingernail to remove the stinger.
  — Aliza Chasan, CBS News, 20 Sep. 2023
• Moreno said at least 200 stingers were removed from his neck and arms.
  — Sandra McDonald, Los Angeles Times, 14 Aug. 2024
• Murray went down with what the team described as a stinger.
  — Staff Writer follow, Los Angeles Times, 8 Jan. 2023
• Use a credit card or butter knife to avoid breaking the stinger in the body.
  — Christine Sexton, sun-sentinel.com, 11 Aug. 2021
• After you remove the stinger, wash the site with soap and water.
  — Caroline Picard, Good Housekeeping, 6 June 2017
• The cocktails list canvassed more than 100 drinks, from side cars to stingers.
  — Marc Bona, cleveland, 4 May 2020
• Hole 3 - Par 4 Tiger pulls iron from the bag and hits his low-flying stinger shot that finds the right side of the fairway.
  — Adam Woodard, USA TODAY, 1 June 2018
• Take notes, tell friends, and then, when the moment is right, unleash your stinger.
  — Robin Abcarian, latimes.com, 10 June 2017
• Just a table and a doctor who tells Avril that a stinger wouldn’t cause both arms to go numb.
  — Greg Bishop, SI.com, 12 Dec. 2017
• Of course a bee’s stinger can’t penetrate the thick hide of an elephant.
  — Karen Weintraub, New York Times, 26 Jan. 2018
• The real stinger was that the cost would come directly out of the lender’s bottom line.
  — Washington Post, 27 Aug. 2020
• Rookie safety Sheldrick Redwine left late in the game with a stinger and is day-to-day.
  — Mary Kay Cabot, cleveland.com, 24 Aug. 2019
• The stingers in Florida are in one of the first stages of the jellyfish life cycle.
  — National Geographic, 28 June 2018
• One night, a bartender called in sick, and a customer ordered a brandy stinger.
  — The New Yorker, 12 Dec. 2019
• Wash the site with soapy water and remove the stinger with gauze or a fingernail.
  — Brianna Taylor, Sacramento Bee, 21 July 2024
• Freshman cornerback Malachi Moore left with a stinger late in the game.
  — Mike Rodak | [e-mail], al, 1 Nov. 2020
• Do wasps leave stingers? Unlike bees, most wasps do not leave their stingers in their victims.
  — Tiffany Acosta, The Arizona Republic, 16 Aug. 2024

Last Updated: 23 Dec 2024