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"Stinger" in a Sentence (11 examples)
Bees, like wasps, have a stinger.
Bees have a barbed stinger that can be stuck in the victim of a sting, tearing the stinger loose from the bee's abdomen, which results in its death.
A scorpion has a stinger at the end of its tail.
A wasp stuck its stinger in my arm.
I was surprised to learn that a stingray can actually regenerate its stinger if it gets broken off.
Bumblebees can sting repeatedly like wasps, but their stinger doesn't easily penetrate human skin.
When attacking, the fire ant stinger injects venom. It is fatal to small animals, and very uncomfortable to humans. It produces a burning sensation like fire. Small red bumps will appear on the skin and be annoyingly itchy. The venom from fire ants can actually be deadly to persons who are sensitive or allergic.
The bee's stinger is stuck in my hand.
The scorpion uses its stinger for self-defense.
The thing stopped then and looked at me a moment as much as to say: "Why this thing has a stinger! I must be careful." And then it reached out its long neck and opened its mighty jaws and grabbed for me; but I wasn't there.
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The most commonly used tool in the horror score kit is the “sting” — a quick and loud jolt of sound that coincides with a frightening image or the attack of a killer or creature. “Stingers are a form of music that are unique to movies,” Young adds. “There’s no other venue of musicmaking that has a window of opportunity for writing these little splats of instrumental sound that exist for the sole purpose of getting the little girls in the audience to jump out of their seats. In two or three seconds, you have to do enough so that it isn’t melodrama, that it does the job and also it’s your signature.”
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