What's the difference between stung and swung?

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The pop song's composer, John Ewbank, was so stung by the criticism that he attempted unsuccessfully to have the song withdrawn from the day's festivities.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.

Swung


Definition:

  • (imp. & p. p.) of Swing
  • () imp. & p. p. of Swing.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The pendulum swung even further with growing fossil, archaeological and genetic data in the 1990s.
  • (2) So far, the UK election has thrown up a carnival of peculiar results | Lewis Baston Read more Scotland, of course, is a different story: but David Cameron’s antagonistic response to the 2014 referendum clearly swung a lot of anti-Tory voters towards the SNP.
  • (3) As the political pendulum has swung over the decades, these competing archetypes have spurred endless innovations from inflation-linked bonds to free TV licences.
  • (4) The starting premise of the remain campaign was that elections in Britain are settled in a centre-ground defined by aversion to economic risk and swung by a core of liberal middle-class voters who are allergic to radical lurches towards political uncertainty.
  • (5) No, what swung it for us was their debut album, An Awesome Wave, which has been rapturously received.
  • (6) Olfactory fibers derived from the nasal cavity reached the entire surface of the bulb, forming a dense fiber plexus, then swung deeply and terminated in the olfactory glomeruli which were arranged in 2-4 rows.
  • (7) In normal subjects, the left ventricular (LV) epicardial apex swung up to the base only a few millimeters, and the mitral annulus ring moved about 14 mm as mean value toward the apex during systole.
  • (8) Oil prices swung rapidly on Monday, first rising on tension between Saudi Arabia and Iran before fears about the strength of the global economy drove prices lower.
  • (9) The ball's swung into the mixer, where Glen Johnson is penalised for hand-ball.
  • (10) Here's what Scott Murray said about it in his minute-by-minute report : "A ball is swung into the Cameroon box from the right by Matsui, to the far post where Honda - and no yellow-shirted defenders - awaits.
  • (11) In Virginia, which swung decisively back to the Republicans in last week's midterm elections, there is fear that China plays a decisive role in the loss of jobs and wealth.
  • (12) 67 min and a bit: The ball's swung into the Italian area from the right.
  • (13) Sure, there are signs that public favour has swung around again pretty fast – as MCV points out , the Xbox One 'Day One' edition is now number two on Amazon UK's video game bestseller list , one place ahead of PS4 (though the Amazon US list has several PS4 packages in the top 10).
  • (14) Three.” Campaigning organisations such as housing charity Shelter argue that the balance of power has swung too far in favour of landlords, against tenants who are chasing a limited supply of property and can be evicted without reason.
  • (15) The corner is swung in by Nasri and Kompany heads harmlessly over.
  • (16) A laudatory review was lost in one of the regular printers' strikes of the time: it might, he felt, have swung things his way.
  • (17) They have swung the US from engagement to isolation and back for more than a century.
  • (18) Whelan, Gordon Brown's spin doctor in the 1990s and part of the media campaign behind Labour's 1997 victory, said union power had undoubtedly swung the vote for the younger Miliband brother.
  • (19) The therapy of testis tumors is multimodal, using lymphadenectomy, radiation therapy and chemotherapy, but the pendulum has swung so that chemotherapy has assumed the vital role in management.
  • (20) The US is finally giving up its old approach of telling the continent what to do.” The political pendulum has already swung in the latter.

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