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Sentence Examples Perhaps classical scholars will wince, but putting a personal spin on history couldn't be more Homeric. In 1756, a French physician, Nicholas Andre, named this condition tic douloureux, which means painful wince. Sometimes I read responses that seem overblown and pretentious, and they make me wince. He wouldn't wince, not even when you pursed your lips in a pose worthy of a centerfold. He'd work some kind of paste-up edit, often inserting a freeze-frame in a manner that made other TV directors wince. Men are also less likely then women to wince when they look at the price tag, according to the report from market analysts Mintel. Every few steps or so I'd hit her foot and she would wince, but try to hide her pain. Dr. Kline noticed the anxious girl wince in sudden pain and immediately stepped closer to Leanne. Mike was now copying our dad's voice, which made me wince with emotional pain. There was a brief moment where he could not hide his wince, his small grimace of pain. Brad laughed a bit, his laughter ending in a slight wince as the pain flared up again. The force of fat raindrops hitting my head was hard enough to make me wince. The brothers shared a wince at the memory of the snotty chef their mother was inordinately fond of. When I see that other fellow college students rioted and destroyed the coolest liquor store in town, while in a drunken mob, I wince. The thought of it is enough to make you wince, but the performers are skilled enough to pull it off. When she fights back, he delivers a ham-fisted haymaker across her jaw accompanied by a sound effect that made me wince. Her armour was scorched and burnt away in places, revealing blistered skin and burn wounds severe enough to make an experienced doctor wince. Doesn't excite me sexually, but I could certainly watch it again and again, even as it makes me wince. I wince as it collides against her forehead, then jump up as she tips back and falls over backwards, chair and all. It's a buzzword, a catchphrase, and I simultaneously wince and stifle laughter whenever I hear it. Show More Sentences It was impossible not to wince, though, when the caustic chemical bit into open flesh. Jinx caught himself with his hands before he fell for the fourth time in ten minutes, swallowing the wince as his aching wrist twinged. Think of some of the world's most famous supergroups and you can't help but wince. We must delicately wince at their uncleanliness, while empowering them to sterilise their living spaces. He quickly became a legend with his dazzling skills that left defenders flat footed and an eye for goal that made keepers wince. His unstatesmanlike behavior and childish tough talk makes many people in other countries wince. He cuffs me at the back of my head, harshly, and I wince, tears stinging my eyes. A wince of pain flashing over her pale, clammy features told me she was slowly remembering. I saw him cutting off distinguished authors at the ankles with short, savage ripostes that made one wince. Alas, after a while, the sight of board shorts, singlets, jandals and sunglasses will make you wince. The errant flashes of light in your brain depicting this possibility are strong enough to make you wince and want to cry. The thought made me inwardly wince and I cast my gaze over the room. She rests a proprietary hand on the man's shoulder, as if for security, and the little finger of her other hand-it almost makes you wince to see it-is extended primly. Some may or may not agree with his right-wing views, but they will wince at serious London politics treated by the Tory leadership as a celebrity Eton wall game. Consequently, while there are torture scenes in the book, with enough detail to make a weak-stomached reader wince, they avoid gratuitousness. It's hard not to wince when she slips into 'adorkable' mode. The public works minister must wince when he recalls those words of his rat pack partner. When leaders speak of waging the war against terrorism to its final victory, one can only wince and wonder what they have in mind. Was using the tragedy of his son's short life a good defence of the NHS or do people wince? Party strategists wince at the results of the ethnic minority British election study, which analysed the 2010 figures. Show More Sentences It's a subject that hits headlines, fuels discussions, sparks debate and causes some of the men in the room to wince and cross their legs. But the smiles can quickly turn to a wince when we take a look at our credit card statement a few days after our return. Power on and the computer enters the loading wince picture belowafter a few seconds. That being so, readers with linguistic sensibilities may wince at some of the expressions or use of language. Even now, Danes still wince at the name Butragueno, scorer of four goals that day. If not, you wince while the engine groans due to lack of power because you are trying to get going in second gear. Considering that my personal number, 62, wasn't far behind his, I could only wince at the graphic evidence of time passing. The large all-rubber tires will let you maneuver this wince easily and ergonomically correct, even if the ground is uneven. There was one news operation that didn't wince, that didn't back off, that stood up like no other news operation in the post-Soviet world. Approaching a tight bend quickly, it never elicited a wince from me or my colleague and co-driver Marc Bouchard. We can spend our lives dallying in false advertising and slick brochures about barren land and cheap trinkets and never for a moment wince at the dishonesty of it. She sniffed and held back a wince when he dabbed gently at the cut. I wince when I spot a bill on the doormat, I'm on tenterhooks when the car is in for a service and fear the worst when I get a receipt from the cash point. Memphis begins to pop up in the later chapters, and I wince at every mention because I know that is where the story will end. Periodically I would look across to my friend and yoga-pal Sola, who would be twisting her slender body into poses I can only wince at, and feel rather inadequate. There was a clicking sound as the cuffs went back on, but not tight enough to make him wince. The violence is so real that cinemagoers wince with every thump. Sabathia is the Yankees' pillar, big and strong, and he absorbed a sharp second-inning comebacker by John Mayberry Jr. on the inside of his left thigh without so much as a wince. It made you wince because you knew what he meant. What if my seatmate was a sadistic fatphobe who would lean on our shared armrest just to see me wince in pain as it dug into my hip? Show More Sentences I avoided the issue last week as the loss of One Up remains a festering wound that still makes Aberdeen's musos wince. If you asked any 12-year-old what shots she has received, she would probably wince and point to a dog-eared immunization record, received in early childhood and updated dutifully at every school immunization day. They just have to wince, then grin and bear it. What wife does not wince at the stench of her husband's morning breath? Cheek by Jowl caroled Shakespeare's songs plangently in four-part harmony, but the Ridiculous' Titania had to add a placatory wince to the promise that her fairies would sing. Instead of relishing that little twinge in your nose you know is going to be followed by a full-on sternutation, I wince at the pain that is going to come. Claustrophobic readers may wince at Hurd's descriptions of spelunking, but they'll find the author's journeys a rare opportunity to explore the wild caves of the world. But he made no whimper. Nor did he wince or cringe to the blows. He bored straight in, striving, without avoiding a blow, to beat and meet the blow with his teeth. If ITV wanted to screen the sort of sad situation comedy that made us wince through the '60s and '70s they should have bought the rights to Terry and June. Examples from Classical Literature That ball grazed her tail, but she is too old a soldier to wince at trifles. He talked of renunciation, but it was with an anguish so keen as to make me wince for him who felt it. Opposite him galliard resumed his seat with a mocking smile that made him wince. But it was only into the air, and Scilla did not wince as he had hoped she would. For the edge may be taken off, if it does not make the subject of its raillery wince a little. She saw Ted start, scalded by the splash of her self-directed anger, saw him try to convert his wince into a shrug. Why, I wonder that just the recollection of my red hands, knobbly and spread with work, does not make you wince into aloofness. He is a rival before whom your senses wince as before some unflattering image. Because she saw him wince when she mentioned Christine, her ill temper increased. To talk to this woman of her mother made her wince, but it had to be done. How the friends of darkness, how the demons must wince and tremble. The dog did not live that could take a full-arm whip-slash without wince or flinch. Its just the motive, Captain yule returned, that makes me wince at it! A bone snapped loudly, and Balthus saw the Pict wince and falter. Wilcox had eschewed those decorative schemes that wince, and relent, and refrain, and achieve beauty by sacrificing comfort and pluck. And then again came Ona's scream, smiting him like a blow in the face, making him wince and turn white. But Korak did not wince even after they had fetched a brand and the flames had shot up among the dry tinder. Bonnycastle moreover the justice to believe that she wouldn't have approached the question with such levity if she had supposed she should make him wince. Find more words! 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