Wincing in A Sentence

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    Being a candidate for the presidency Clay had to take the insult without wincing.

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    Bennigsen, who had chosen the position, warmly displayed his Russian patriotism (Kutuzov could not listen to this without wincing) by insisting that Moscow must be defended.

    3

    He paced up and down his room, now turning his thoughts on a difficult problem and frowning, now suddenly shrugging his shoulders and wincing, and now smiling happily.

    4

    I guess I'll just get back to work - wincing a bit !

    5

    In the bathroom she painted the little bumps, wincing as the sting burned the itch away.

    6

    It is an eternal weakness in our moral being which makes us constantly squint aside from the thought of duty towards the forbidden motive - wincing under pain, or hungering after joy, 1 Mansel's term for Kant's " practical."

    7

    Once again, following a brief period of wincing in pain, the South player was able to carry on with the match.

    8

    Rob walked gingerly across the rocks, wincing.

    9

    She shrugged as she plopped back into her chair, wincing.

    10

    She sighed and shrugged, wincing at the pain caused by the motion.

    11

    Then she turned toward her daughter's face which was wincing with pain and gazed long at it.

    12

    Those days of sitting around the table playing a game of Monopoly and wincing as hotels were built on the "high-end district" can be visited again when you play Monopoly Here and Now World.

    13

    Wincing and hugging herself, she darted to the door, opened it and dashed down the hall.

    14

    Wincing, he rubbed his neck and grinned at her.

    15

    Wincing, she fell to the floor, turning pleading eyes on Josh.

    16

    You can almost hear him struggling to sound like someone he 's not which is slightly wincing.

    17

    Yully spun out as she shoved her foot to the floor again, wincing when she hit him and drove him into the side of the garage.