(1) Her own debut album, 12 Stories (released on 22 October), displays the full range of her emotional acuity and wit in dissecting the strung-out, pill-addicted, adulterous heart of small-town America.
(2) 45 min: Cameroon haven't strung more than two passes together all half.
(3) The fight was like a tightly-strung bow, but neither archer was releasing the arrow.
(4) But that’s only because the £50m price tag that the club have strung around his neck is so heavy that he physically cannot move.
(5) Around this mere handful of works by its hero – which do at least include his sumptuous The Garden of Love (c 1635) and his vulnerable, shivering nude the Venus Frigida (1614) – the curators have strung together a fragile daisy chain of prints, copies and daubs of dubious relevance, and sometimes very poor quality.
(6) The second study proves a new betablocking agent to have sociotropic effects: in a long-term trial socially high-strung subjects showed an improved interaction behavior (compared to placebo and socially easy-going persons) in their everyday life.
(7) For generations, these winter winds have been a trial for the crofting and fishing communities which are strung along the coastline.
(8) Balloons are strung up around the lawns and youngsters can have guided tours of the seat of power.
(9) Last summer, his team strung a 700-metre-long cable between two cliffs at a geological park in central China and the Prince, seeking a new challenge, decided to cross it backwards and blindfolded.
(10) Partly as a response to that image of strung-out adolescent boys, products aimed more at women and at an older market have tended not to call themselves games at all.
(11) No one can relax when the food is too highly strung.
(12) "Africans who refused to take the Mau Mau oath have had ropes tied around their necks and been strung up from rafters until unconscious.
(13) It’s possible Mary Berry is in fact a trojan behemoth, and viewers might wonder what dark secrets she’s hiding as a highly strung web administrator from Kettering furiously puts the finishing touches to a multi-tiered woodland-themed Genoese sponge.
(14) Equally, in every situation, Mason was the defender of Ophuls, a high-strung, stylistic perfectionist who was having a hard time in Hollywood.
(15) Tulsa remains Clark's most visceral book, an insider's view of a period in the mid-1960s when he was a teenager living what he calls, without irony, "the outlaw life" – shooting up speed, having sex with his strung-out girlfriends and hanging out with his gun-toting junkie friends.
(16) Then, as now, the mood was dominated by a crucial question: how do you a balance a need for jobs with the demand for a good quality of life for residents strung out kilometres away from Sydney’s CBD?
(17) His original masterplan included two championship golf courses, with a five-star hotel, tower blocks of timeshare apartments, luxury villas, equestrian and tennis complexes, a golfing academy, and shopping village strung along a sweeping avenue called Trump Boulevard.
(18) Like a few cushions piled up with a pearl string strung around the bottom.
(19) I was so highly strung and so stressed out and of course I would have answered the door because it might have been the police,” he said.
(20) Abu Jamal [his Islamic nom de guerre] is fighting in Syria, with a bushy beard covering his face and bullets strung across his chest.
Stung
Definition:
(imp. & p. p.) of Sting
() imp. & p. p. of Sting.
Example Sentences:
(1) Richards was a feminist who, rather than scaring men, stung them with her wit, a technique she famously applied to President George Bush senior in what became a legendary quip in American politics.
(2) 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.
(3) 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.
(4) Stung, Mayweather hits right back with a right hand to remind Guerrero of who he's in with.
(5) Both women reported having been stung by jellyfish a month earlier.
(6) A seven-year-old girl, stung by a scorpion, was hospitalized in a confused state with signs of myocarditis and pulmonary edema.
(7) Our past and present re-sting data reveal that a large percentage of initially sting-sensitive patients have no reaction on being re-stung.
(8) It owed altogether too much to Scott and was a fiasco that stung its author so badly that a story claims he sought out all the copies he could find to have them burnt.
(9) A previously healthy 38-year-old man was stung multiple times by yellow jackets without any signs of anaphylaxis being observed.
(10) After being stung by reports that some soldiers had refused to fight Boko Haram or had “tactically retreated” from battle, chief of army staff Lt-General Kenneth Minimah ordered that deserters be court-martialled.
(11) The interventions have stung the government, and with good reason.
(12) 34 min: Stung by my criticism, Deco attempts to put me back in my box by scoring from distance.
(13) The chancellor was stung by last week's criticism from the fund.
(14) However he has been stung badly after leaving his trouser zip undone and not covered by his bee-keeping foil tunic.
(15) Antibodies were raised against CcV protein and used in testing for ovary and in stung eggs.
(16) The pop song's composer, John Ewbank, was so stung by the criticism that he attempted unsuccessfully to have the song withdrawn from the day's festivities.
(17) Garzón was stung by the court's affirmation that he had behaved as if working for a totalitarian regime, fishing indiscriminately for evidence and trampling on defendants' rights by wiretapping jail conversations with defence lawyers.
(18) Oh, and they also stung you for £25 last month when you went a few quid over your overdraft limit.
(19) In Saddam Hussein's hometown, Tikrit, 40-year-old Sunni government worker Hazim Ali Hamid was stung by Obama's praise to US forces for removing Saddam.
(20) The prime minister is still stung by his embarrassing rebuff in 2013 when he suffered an international diplomatic humiliation by failing to win the support of parliament for a bombing campaign designed to sanction Assad for using chemical weapons against his own people.