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bee-stung

蜂拥而至,蜂刺,蜜蜂蜇人,蜂蜇

Definitions

adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1
    • : having a red and swollen appearance: 1920s flappers with bee-stung lips.

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.