(v. t.) To shake together in confusion; to push, jostle, or crowd rudely; to handle roughly; as, to hustle a person out of a room.
(v. i.) To push or crows; to force one's way; to move hustily and with confusion; a hurry.
Example Sentences:
(1) This isn’t so much the old push-and-run Spurs as push-and-run-and-snipe-and-hustle, albeit in a controlled kind of way.
(2) The women in Wednesday's protest climbed up on the gates of the justice ministry until police pulled them down and hustled them shouting into the building as an angry crowd gathered, many of them lawyers there for work.
(3) "You regroup and start hustling again, but it's crucial that you believe in your own creative processes.
(4) The president, played by Martin Sheen, had to hustle to find new neckwear from someone on his staff with less than a minute to air.
(5) The flat is opposite Covent Garden tube station in the heart of London, and a stone's throw from the hustle and bustle of Leicester Square.
(6) Journalists and the public roll their eyes as he makes yet another passive-aggressive claim that referees are against him, directors tire of his constant hustling and players perhaps weary of his intensity.
(7) Like most provincial towns around Russia , Kirov is far from the hustle and bustle of Moscow's political life.
(8) Every mainland resident aspires to move to the island someday, which is why the Lagos Hustle will never stop.
(9) For the serious riders, this outing was a warm-up for the Wolfpack Hustle race on 15 August, which drew international contestants.
(10) Spike Jonze's Her joined American Hustle as one of the unexpected early frontrunners in the awards race after being named as best film of the year by the National Board of Review.
(11) The Canadian prime minister, Stephen Harper, was hustled away from Parliament Hill and was safe, a spokesperson confirmed .
(12) One cannot help but admire the bovine hustle with which the Labour party and most of the commentariat converged on the story that it had lost the election not because it had chosen the wrong Miliband, but because it had failed to address voters’ “aspirations”.
(13) Cooper was Oscar-nominated for his acting work on 2012’s Silver Linings Playbook and last year’s American Hustle , both of which were directed by David O Russell.
(14) Photograph: Alamy A great place to while away an afternoon, enjoying the tranquillity of the gardens, which make a stark contrast to the usual hustle and bustle of Delhi.
(15) Sure, movies should be fun and a great deal of the fun – indeed, I would go so far as to say the primary fun – of American Hustle lies in the fact that it resembles, in Tina Fey and Amy Poehler's spot-on description, "an explosion in a wig factory".
(16) Both American Hustle and 12 Years a Slave are expected to be among the nominees for the 2014 Oscars, which will be announced on 16 January.
(17) Similarly Henville, who has served prison time for drug offences, is shown trying to go straight (“I didn’t rob anyone or hustle anyone – I was just trying to be a young entrepreneur at the time,” he says of days as a dealer).
(18) Tony Jordan, who had a hand in several of the pivotal television dramas of the past 20 years, from EastEnders to Hustle and Life on Mars, is reminiscing over his formative years as a market-stall holder partly because he has just launched a competition to find new writers for his recently formed production company Red Planet.
(19) To get to the beach, they were hustled through a small gap in a fence that lined the sand.
(20) The Nativity has been a long-standing project for Jordan (Life on Mars, Hustle, EastEnders), who began researching it five years ago .
Sting
Definition:
(v. t.) Any sharp organ of offense and defense, especially when connected with a poison gland, and adapted to inflict a wound by piercing; as the caudal sting of a scorpion. The sting of a bee or wasp is a modified ovipositor. The caudal sting, or spine, of a sting ray is a modified dorsal fin ray. The term is sometimes applied to the fang of a serpent. See Illust. of Scorpion.
(v. t.) A sharp-pointed hollow hair seated on a gland which secrets an acrid fluid, as in nettles. The points of these hairs usually break off in the wound, and the acrid fluid is pressed into it.
(v. t.) Anything that gives acute pain, bodily or mental; as, the stings of remorse; the stings of reproach.
(v. t.) The thrust of a sting into the flesh; the act of stinging; a wound inflicted by stinging.
(v. t.) A goad; incitement.
(v. t.) The point of an epigram or other sarcastic saying.
(v. t.) To pierce or wound with a sting; as, bees will sting an animal that irritates them; the nettles stung his hands.
(v. t.) To pain acutely; as, the conscience is stung with remorse; to bite.
(v. t.) To goad; to incite, as by taunts or reproaches.
Example Sentences:
(1) He's called out for his lack of imagination in a stinging review by a leading food critic (Oliver Platt) and - after being introduced to Twitter by his tech-savvy son (Emjay Anthony) - accidentally starts a flame war that will lead to him losing his job.
(2) I preferred the Times version, as my father would have done had he any interest in Sting.
(3) His words earned a stinging rebuke from first lady Michelle Obama , but at a Friday rally in North Carolina he said of one accuser, Jessica Leeds: “Yeah, I’m gonna go after you.
(4) In 31 patients in whom specific IgE fell to low (less than 6% counts bound) or unmeasurable levels, immunotherapy was discontinued, and sting challenge was carried out 1 to 3 years later.
(5) Colleagues involved in similar Telegraph stings this week included Michael Moore, the Scottish secretary, Ed Davey, a business minister, and Steve Webb, the pensions minister.
(6) Leading figures including the musician Sting, business tycoon Sir Richard Branson and comedian Russell Brand have called for the possession of drugs to be decriminalised.
(7) "It wouldn't have covered the costs but it would have taken the sting out of what I'd spent," he says.
(8) Moderate to severe SRs were equally likely after stings of yellow jacket, white-faced hornet, and yellow hornet (65%), honeybee (67%), or wasp (70%), although historical SRs were reported more often after stings of yellow jacket, white-faced hornet, or yellow hornet (30%) than after honeybee (19%) or wasp (14%) stings.
(9) Dramatic cases of hymenoptera stings have been reported from various sources for several years now.
(10) We can expect a greater number of toxic reactions related to multiple stings in addition to the more familiar allergic (IgE-mediated) reactions.
(11) Insect sting challenge in 14 patients with urticarial reaction to last insect sting resulted in two systemic reactions (95% confidence limits 0-6 patients), a reaction rate of 14%.
(12) Those patients who were re-stung within 2 weeks (anergic period) or over 5 years after a generalized reaction to a sting had significantly improved response.
(13) We review the reported cases at our institution with all types of bites and stings.
(14) A frequent cause of contact urticaria is skin exposure to the common stinging nettle (Urtica dioica).
(15) "We're trying to get Sting to wear a Pussy Riot T-shirt at his concert tonight," he'd told me the day before.
(16) 62 patients who had been stung by a red scorpion were admitted from January to December 1990: 18 with hypertension, 15 with supraventricular tachycardia, 11 with pulmonary oedema, and 18 with local pain at the site of sting but no systemic involvement.
(17) The standards committee report by a cross-party group of MPs said it "deplored" stings but would "not hesitate to act in such cases if wrongdoing had occurred".
(18) Sting – a man who had split the Police to pursue a more adult-oriented career, and who would in the following year ponder such poptastic issues as how much Russians loved their children and the plight of miners – took that job in 1984, while this year it falls to Guy Garvey, who may as well just change his middle name to 6Music.
(19) Also, the clinical pattern and treatment of the acute renal failure secondary to bee stings are discussed.
(20) Fifty nine patients (30%) with RXN3 responses to wasps failed to react to either test, while this applied to only 19 (6%) of the patients with RXN3 responses to bee stings.