bee-stung

Definitions

Examples

• It features a young girl at a spelling bee who is asked to spell “Hagan.”

• How could anyone think that their dislike of the Bee Gees made anything about Disco Demolition Night acceptable?

• In an ad called “Spelling Bee,” a young child spells “Pryor” as “O-B-A-M-A,” to which the judge says, “Close enough.”

• Something stung my elbow and it blew up to the size of a tennis ball.

• Certainly there are some Asians who have gleefully embraced the image of being the diligent worker bee.

• Stung to the soul, Louis threw himself at her feet, to proclaim his innocence of all these inferences, before heaven and her.

• About an hour after resuming their walk, the major went off in hot pursuit of an enormous bee, which he saw humming round a bush.

• The blows stung, and Black Sheep struck back at random with all the power at his command.

• But like the bee, while impelled by an instinct that makes it search for sugar, it sucks in therewith its solid sustenance.

• I am not quite certain that the bee does exactly do this; but it is just the kind of thing that the bee is likely to do.