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
• Corneal run-throughs with a bee stinger are rare, the doctors note.
  — Beth Mole, Ars Technica, 4 Dec. 2020
• Both wasps and bees come with a stinger for self defense.
  — Maggie O'Neill, Health.com, 12 May 2021
• 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
• 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
• The cocktails list canvassed more than 100 drinks, from side cars to stingers.
  — Marc Bona, cleveland, 4 May 2020
• 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
• One night, a bartender called in sick, and a customer ordered a brandy stinger.
  — The New Yorker, 12 Dec. 2019
• Freshman cornerback Malachi Moore left with a stinger late in the game.
  — Mike Rodak | [e-mail], al, 1 Nov. 2020
• But the basic concept and the ending stinger is all from that old story.
  — Geek's Guide To The Galaxy, WIRED, 9 July 2021
• So is its refusal to sharpen its point to a stinger, to slather the action with a moral or message.
  — Jesse Green, New York Times, 13 Feb. 2024
• The hornets sport a quarter-inch stinger and kill 30 to 50 people each year in their native Japan.
  — Alex Fox, Smithsonian Magazine, 16 Nov. 2020
• Their names are listed in the small-type credits, after the first stinger scene and before the second one.
  — Washington Post, 3 May 2022
• Melvin called it a stinger injury that happened when Andrus tried to stop his swing.
  — Michael Wagaman, ajc, 29 Aug. 2021
• Ward, who came in batting .367, has a neck stinger that is keeping him from throwing.
  — Los Angeles Times, 27 May 2022
• Her exoskeleton was slick with sweat, and her stinger was twitching in time with Bruno Mars.
  — Simon Rich, The New Yorker, 15 Jan. 2024
• And Austin Reaves knew his sore quad was going to be more of an issue than the shoulder stinger that sent him to the locker room.
  — Dan Woike, Los Angeles Times, 6 Apr. 2023
• Williams and Mathis missed the game at Cal, when Sewell went out late with a left shoulder stinger, and Webb hasn’t played this season.
  — James Crepea | The Oregonian/oregonlive, oregonlive, 14 Dec. 2020
• Some of that impressive length comes from the hornet’s stinger, which can clock in at about a quarter of an inch long.
  — Sara Kiley Watson, Outdoor Life, 6 May 2020
• Between us, in my hands, the wasp in her jar retracts her stinger and turns to examine the other eggs.
  — Nala Rogers, Popular Mechanics, 9 Aug. 2023
• Udoka said after the game that Smart had rolled his ankle and Tatum had a shoulder stinger.
  — New York Times, 22 May 2022
• When you are stung by a bee, the bee jabs a barbed stinger into your skin that releases venom.
  — Mayo Clinic Q & A, chicagotribune.com, 21 Nov. 2019
• Can’t tell if that little protruding nub is a stinger or not.
  — oregonlive.com, 12 July 2019
• Tatum suffered a shoulder stinger in the fourth quarter of the Game 3 loss to the Heat in the Eastern Conference finals.
  — Adam Himmelsbach, BostonGlobe.com, 9 June 2022

Last Updated: 28 May 2024