Smarting is an English word with synonyms like smart or smartness. Below you'll find 10+ example sentences showing how it's used in practice.
Smarting in a sentence
Related words
Smarting meaning
- Painful, sore.
- Experiencing emotional pain or embarrassment.
Using Smarting
- The main meaning on this page is: Painful, sore. | Experiencing emotional pain or embarrassment.
- Useful related words include: smart, smartness, pain, hurting.
- In the example corpus, smarting often appears in combinations such as: smarting from, still smarting, side smarting.
Context around Smarting
- Average sentence length in these examples: 28.9 words
- Position in the sentence: 11 start, 6 middle, 3 end
- Sentence types: 20 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Smarting
- In this selection, "smarting" usually appears near the start of the sentence. The average example has 28.9 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, side, vanquished and workers stand out and add context to how "smarting" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include is still smarting from the and also be smarting from their. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "smarting" sits close to words such as aare, aarti and abl, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with smarting
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
Good backed his opponent, which Bacon’s still smarting over. (10 words)
Conservatives are smarting at some of the GOP leaders’ tactics, but Daines isn’t bothered. (15 words)
Liberals are also still smarting over the role Facebook played in Hillary Clinton’s surprise defeat. (16 words)
For now, the Knicks are still 0-0 as the season opener arrives Wednesday night at AT&T Center against a Spurs team that has made the playoffs 22 straight years, but is still smarting from the Knicks’ summertime heist of Marcus Morris. (43 words)
They'll face a City side smarting from a fifth game without victory, and one booed off by their own supporters following their 1-1 draw with Portsmouth, and fans calling for Tim Walter to be sacked. (37 words)
Saturday at Florida — Last time the B’s were in Sunrise, they were smoked 5-0 on Dec. 4. The Panthers might also be smarting from their collapse at the Garden a week and a half ago. (37 words)
Example sentences (20)
Conservatives are smarting at some of the GOP leaders’ tactics, but Daines isn’t bothered.
Nnamani, like Anyim in 2003, decided not to seek re-election in 2007 because Obasanjo, who was smarting from the death of the third term agenda, was not going to allow him to return.
Smarting from the Academy's rejection, the Vanderbilts and their fellow industrialists banded together to create a new opera house that would eventually overshadow the Academy.
That can all change at the national stadium when Hayes and Co take on Rangers, who are also smarting from losing out on the title to Glasgow City on that dramatic final day.
The national security community is still smarting from the fallout of the massive SolarWinds cyberattack in 2020, in which Russian hackers the networks of heavily fortified federal agencies’ computer systems.
Fresh from their 2-1 victory at home against Sri Lanka, England will be favourites in the three-match contest against a Pakistan side smarting from a 2-0 whitewash by Bangladesh last month.
Good backed his opponent, which Bacon’s still smarting over.
Rangers were still smarting from their 5-4 loss to Stars two weeks previously, and Kerr acknowledged the reverse fixture at home was an ideal chance to exact revenge.
The Greens are still smarting, and the Lib Dems are eyeing a recovery at the next election.
They'll face a City side smarting from a fifth game without victory, and one booed off by their own supporters following their 1-1 draw with Portsmouth, and fans calling for Tim Walter to be sacked.
Liberals are also still smarting over the role Facebook played in Hillary Clinton’s surprise defeat.
Still smarting over his botched ceremonial pitch at the opening game between the Yankees and the Nationals, Dr. Anthony Fauci is open for a do-over at Citi Field, according to a report.
The Juventus forward might still be smarting from missing out on winning the Serie A Golden Boot, but at least he's having a lovely holiday.
Victors seldom feel magnanimous, especially if the war was long and costly, and the vanquished, smarting under the humiliation of defeat and the burden of harsh terms, can only look forward to future vengeance.
For now, the Knicks are still 0-0 as the season opener arrives Wednesday night at AT&T Center against a Spurs team that has made the playoffs 22 straight years, but is still smarting from the Knicks’ summertime heist of Marcus Morris.
Saturday at Florida — Last time the B’s were in Sunrise, they were smoked 5-0 on Dec. 4. The Panthers might also be smarting from their collapse at the Garden a week and a half ago.
With Sony still smarting from the underwhelming performance of the 2014 Spider-Man sequel, an agreement was struck.
Five years ago: The White House announced President Barack Obama would return 5 percent of his salary each month to the Treasury in a show of solidarity with federal workers smarting from government-wide spending cuts.
Germany, still smarting from the previous quarrel, agreed to a settlement whereby the French ceded some territory in central Africa in exchange for Germany's renouncing any right to intervene in Moroccan affairs.
The Austro-Hungarians, still smarting after their defeat by Prussia in the Austro-Prussian War, were treading carefully before stating that they would only commit to France's cause if the southern Germans viewed the French positively.
Common combinations with smarting
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- smarting from 14×
- still smarting 10×
- side smarting 3×
- smarting over 3×
- be smarting 2×