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    1. Parker smiled at Tig like he’d never seen before and Tig didn’t know why it made him want to cringe


    2. What follows next is dead silence, but then Sabrina speaks again, "Well, are you excited about the ceremony?" I cringe as I sense confusion coming from Apollo as he responds, "What ceremony?"


    3. The dog continued to cringe and whine, although he was starting


    4. As hard as it was to believe, another payday was rapidly bearing down on her, the clock over the fireplace read eleven thirty five, and she was still staring at a stack of papers that would make even the best of bookkeepers cringe


    5. He denied it but I saw him cringe


    6. Suddenly a loud slap made her cringe


    7. family cringe behind me, and the young man was


    8. With each crack of her bones, I could feel Griffin cringe beside me


    9. She couldn’t help but cringe, knowing that he’d make the same noises when she was the meal he finished down to crumbs


    10. And though it was fun to watch, the Breton thief could not help but cringe somewhat in sympathy for the young man

    11. " Hate? We cringe at


    12. Then I cringe, hating myself for thinking that way


    13. Over time, I began to cringe when the doorbell rang


    14. Slowly, without a creak or a cringe,


    15. That picture made him cringe


    16. That made me cringe


    17. AJ and I wore a split second cringe on our faces after he had said that “racking nuts business


    18. My head jerks to the side and I cringe away from him, flinging my hands up to protect my face


    19. Cara walks over to me, and I cringe in anticipation of her voice


    20. I fished some more and she told me that he had a reserved seat and what he normally did here, I had to stifle a cringe every time

    21. Even the thought of something so out of character and idiotic made her cringe with embarrassment


    22. Say the word migraine and most migraineurs will reflexively cringe in


    23. more familiar with reflexology are less likely to cringe reflexively at the


    24. the floor, but still didn’t cringe


    25. Say the word migraine and most migraineurs will reflexively cringe in remembered pain, their last


    26. the monitors made her cringe and shiver with shame


    27. Some people cringe, others are amazed, still others are disgusted


    28. Most of the girls cringe


    29. This might make most men cringe, but it’s a fact that most women are


    30. If there is one thing that makes me cringe, it’s sleazy people

    31. The girls informed her that it was Suraj who wrote the message, Bilo smiled and sat down quietly feeling very embarrassed, giving her yet another cringe moment


    32. Bilo pickled in her cringe moment, she apologized sheepishly and walked off to hide in shame


    33. Even bears cringe at the site of this dog


    34. ” Sarah could see the woeful cringe that reverberated through her mother’s broken soul


    35. must cringe when they see the same stories


    36. She quickly thought of how Billy would react and it made her cringe a little


    37. She saw its mad yellow eyes stare at her with defiance at death, making her cringe


    38. Only a first-timer would cringe at the


    39. This is vital because several people cringe when thinking about being touched


    40. cringe to watch that mutt's disgusting mouth greedily

    41. she glanced away as soon as I began to cringe


    42. As he inhaled, the cringe of pain returned to his face, now worse than before


    43. If the poor bastard slinking away was worthy of a cringe of embarrassment, then surely there should be a sprinkling of embarrassment left over for Jameer


    44. The first lash of the whip, with its tip twisting around her torso and hitting her right breast, made Jennifer cringe with pain


    45. Grobut seemed to cringe


    46. cringe, don't they, when faced with the bloody truth


    47. As the small group were going down a steep spiral staircase and was about to get to the first basement level, a long scream of pain echoed along the stone walls, making Louis cringe


    48. Hearing Glacia called ‘your girl’ makes me cringe


    49. I couldn’t help but cringe when I heard that


    50. I cringe every time I see a














































    1. "Sweetie," Mother cringed, "maybe the pony needs a break?"


    2. How could we ever have believed the heroes in all those films? Who can ever die like a man? I cringed


    3. These ordinary people cringed and winced as the experts subjected them to crushing and horribly patronising witticisms, The ultimate aim of this personal degradation was focussed on one thing; to single out only the most exceptional talents, while ensuring that the audience at home was vicariously thrilled and titillated by the humiliation of those who failed


    4. I understood the place of death in life and no longer cringed at dead animals or birds


    5. "Eeeww," Heymon cringed, "and to think he pulled off the presentation in spite of that


    6. cringed and whined as he hunkered down on his belly in abject


    7. cringed and winced as the experts subjected them to crushing and


    8. spent, and cringed under the stares he was receiving


    9. ’ Godfrey cringed at the


    10. He also cringed when I asked if he’d been grown in a lab

    11. A moment later, she caught sight of her own reflection, in the glass doors and cringed in horror


    12. Mike watched as she cringed at Jim’s escape


    13. surroundings and cringed at the filthiness of it


    14. cringed if he’d been there to hear this part of her


    15. through the wildflowers” (while the children cringed), but


    16. The children cringed as she passed within their midst, then she was through the crowd of youngsters and left them behind to giggle and gag while retelling the details of her hideous appearance


    17. Zarko cringed and wished the pool would open up and swallow him alive


    18. She was never lucid, and I cringed knowing this is what I would be going through in a few hours


    19. My fingers clumsily fumbled to open the plastic bag I had brought, and I cringed at the sound of the material when I finally pulled it apart


    20. He was given vinegar on a sponge and my mouth cringed from the taste

    21. Pirate cringed and as he closed his eyes he saw a picture of a huge gum tree


    22. Illogically, the old enforcer in Amaranthe cringed at this ham-handed handling of the law


    23. Lancelot cringed, jumped between their legs and hopped away as fast as he could


    24. Easing his foot off, he cringed as the wood settled back with a groan, cocking his head to pick up any sound


    25. Skelda cringed in expectation of a physical assault but on this occasion it never came


    26. I cringed, too scared to open my eyes as everyone yelled and then seemed to be holding their breaths for a few seconds – then they all burst out laughing


    27. His face cringed at the painful reminder that he had witnessed this occurrence before


    28. Holding my breath, I closed my eyes and cringed as pig-dad's words echoed around the cabin


    29. She cringed in the seat, trying to put distance between them, the tears streaming down her face


    30. The creature reared up over him and Fin cringed as its tongue flicked in and out of its mouth - like a miniature arm, covered with row upon row of chitinous teeth

    31. Piers heard one of the lids move and cringed, worrying at his bottom lip with his teeth


    32. I cringed as he whipped out his strap


    33. He had been told, but the short whip, that she’d only seen him use on unruly captive slaves, was out and she cringed at the expected snap, but it did not come


    34. She cringed when she had almost leaned forward actually to kiss him


    35. It hurt and I cringed in pain, Levi recognising the look, immediately released his grip


    36. “Ah isn’t she marvelous” Frank touched the side of her face and she cringed “It would truly be sad to kill such a rare beauty” He said


    37. I cringed on the inside, but refused to let him see how embarrassing was for me that he found my other secret


    38. He cringed remembering some of the fights he’d had with


    39. Charmaine cringed at the exchange


    40. Zarkog realized that his gamble had paid off when Mark cringed and cried out and almost convulsed from the power of his wife’s psionic scream, followed immediately by the shock of suddenly being completely out of contact with her for the first time since before their wedding

    41. He remembered an English-woman who had refused to let him put a rope around her neck; wailing, weeping, she had cringed in a corner of a sleeping-room, slapping at Venn's hands whenever he reached for her


    42. I cringed at the sound; then stood and skulked to the


    43. Lydia cringed as George fumbled with his old


    44. onto his interior and cringed


    45. Warren cringed at their suspicions, but took them directly to the PAX accounting office and introduced them to, Emma Jones, the PAX accountant


    46. Bracken was red-faced with embarrassment and cringed back into the comfortable chair


    47. I cringed when I heard the pain in his voice but kept my eyes on his


    48. The rest of the demon horde cringed on one side


    49. Far away the demons cringed when they heard the shouting and saw the bright light expanding until it reached heaven itself


    50. Rochelle cringed inside with fright, struck by the memory that













































    1. She cringes with pain, but doesn’t resist


    2. He cringes and adjusts his grip on her legs


    3. ” She states as she cringes fearing his response


    4. The man cringes in expectation of something bad, but


    5. He hid his cringes from Hiss’ penetrating eyes


    6. jun cringes with fear and begins to apologize for his petty improprieties


    7. The night was good to this point he was merry and actually tolerably funny, although the older Byron could watch himself with no more than violent cringes


    8. An employee may fear the sound of the footsteps of the superior or the battered wife cringes at the stopping of the car when the husband arrives


    9. "Then what's that?" Hookhand asks, gesturing at Wesley, who shrinks away and cringes


    10. A second after his abrupt movement he cringes as if in slow motion, and clutches at his throbbing head

    11. "Are you- Does it still hurt?" He cringes, expecting her to shove him or start crying


    12. Isiko is the scorn felt for a slave who cringes, the belief that a man can look anyone in the face, that he is worth no more and no less than any other man


    13. He said pirate things like Argh! and Avast ye scurvy scallowags! This last earned him a lot of strange glances, but Ingrid allowed it, until finally, at just after eight o'clock, his wish to commit social suicide had achieved for her its maximum number of cringes, and she left the counter to put a stop to the show


    14. The thing separates from the shadows, stumbles toward the light, cringes and stumbles back again


    15. "Either beats or cringes," said Wemmick, not at all addressing himself to me


    16. Pulaski cringes as the girl in the backseat speaks up again


    17. A despot that has its priests and its slaves, a despot to whom all do homage with love and superstition hitherto inconceivable, before which science itself trembles and cringes in a shameful way


    18. It wags its tail, cringes, jumps about, presses its ears down, and madly rushes about in a circle


    1. Nikos kept the rugged and desolate coast of northern Stephanos at a safe distance and whenever a wave broke over the bow and showered me with salty balls of foam Alexis would collapse in fits of laughter at my cringing and groaning


    2. “It’s not that bad,” the Killer still cringing


    3. The foreigners will come cringing to


    4. " Mike harsh voice sent her cringing to kiss her knees


    5. She met with others on her way, reds, blues, greens and grays, and unlike the children, they at least were able to mask their disgust, covering it with pleasant smiles -- though she could still see them cringing inside, their minds retching


    6. himself and half to the boy cringing in the corner


    7. A great roar was heard – the Souljhin cringing at the sound – the cries of dead souls, though it was filled with valour


    8. A more abject picture of pusillanimity could never be painted than of that despot as he passed, cringing and trembling, down the line


    9. 38 he had once fired into the wall to impress Leon, and laid it before him, cringing inwardly that he soon might be inflicting costly damage to his expensive paneling – again


    10. ” Ethan scoffed, cringing his face and looking disgusted

    11. Stiff,” I say, cringing as I say the word that was my nickname in Dauntless


    12. He felt his wounds through his shirt knowing that it was a bad idea, cringing in agony at the brush of his hands


    13. “Millie, come on!” I force my door open, intending to run over to Emily’s side, but then stop, cringing at a loud bang, followed by the excruciating sound of an engine whining


    14. By the last word, many were actually cringing


    15. They are either despicable and belligerent, or so spineless and filled with fear of me as to be cringing and unable to treat me as a person


    16. Bawling and braying could be heard continuously as he irritably snapped his whip over their cringing heads


    17. Dust bubbles popped up out of the sand all around and among the cringing people and animals as the motion continued


    18. “If they can be made to feel overwhelmed,” he had told his cringing prostrate commanders, “they will probably, slaves that they are, meekly give up


    19. Cringing, his heart skipping several beats as he flattened himself against the sandy backwall, Joshua stared up at the curving overhang not daring even to exhale the sudden intake of breath occasioned by the intrusive sound


    20. around and among the cringing people and animals as the motion continued

    21. “If they can be made to feel overwhelmed,” he had told his cringing prostrate commanders,


    22. Cringing, his heart skipping several beats as he flattened himself against the sandy backwall,


    23. “Oh man--bad vibes,” he said aloud, cringing at the sound


    24. observed the cringing bot before him


    25. She warmed to the older man slouched in his chair cringing because he noticed her going into the department store that had a different name


    26. " Horus stands his ground, although his heart is cringing


    27. It did seem a shame that pomposity and cringing conventionality should be so attractively wrapped


    28. ‘Papa, you said you loved me,’ the lad whimpered, cringing in fear of another blow


    29. He felt instantly sober as if a shower of cold water had rushed over and through him, washing all his old feelings away and replacing them with nothing but warmth for her and a cringing stupidity for himself


    30. In their midst, cringing and naked, stood a youth that Conan recognized as the youngest sailor aboard the Wastrel

    31. One, squatting on his haunches before the cringing boy, held a pipe-like thing in his hand


    32. The cringing girl followed perforce, staring fearfully at the arch that let into the court of the pool, but through which, at that angle, neither the pool nor its grim throng were visible


    33. "You sought something hidden!" whispered Tascela, cringing back


    34. “What gave you that idea?" she said, cringing at her lame response


    35. The captain was used to picking up the cringing crews of Mediterranean pirate vessels but this was no pirate, of this the captain was sure


    36. I could only look at my feet, cringing at the lines of blood running from Channing's torn body


    37. � Patricia, cringing as each bullet passed close to her head, ripped open a sterile field dressing and started applying it to the wound


    38. � Cringing with pain as she forced her wounded left arm to stay stiff, she inserted the full magazine in her GLOCK 17 and pulled the slide, chambering a round


    39. Cringing at the sight of the cartoon, John then read Pearson’s article, which could only be described as corrosive towards President Truman, accusing him of criminal neglect of the American armed forces


    40. Cringing on seeing the amount of undue attention they were going to get, Ingrid was nonetheless encouraged by the sight of one big Navy tanker truck, one light truck towing an engine starting unit and a staff car, all waiting in a far corner of the parking lot of the naval hospital, safely away from the helicopter landing pad

    41. On the SARATOGA, Admiral Wa followed the action from his command chair, cringing at the beating his cruisers were taking


    42. Rooster would be cringing had he known a vagabond was drinking his prized liquid straight out of the bottle, and I couldn’t help but laugh picturing the expression on his face had he been standing next to me


    43. concubine – cringing stories told well before the great beheading of oriental moneyman’s


    44. demands met and I suspect enjoyed all the cowering and cringing that went with it


    45. Her foot was feeling much better and she could apply a little pressure on it without cringing


    46. Cringing and holding onto the chest for dear life, she closed her eyes


    47. Too many years of cringing


    48. cringing in their seats - get over it!), I won't spend a lot of time worrying about his feelings


    49. The Disciples were transformed from cringing cowards to courageous witnesses who could not be silenced free from fear


    50. I wonder, one who views these things in front of him, will he not stand bowing his head, cringing, submissive and bended?











































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    Synonyms for "cringe"

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    "cringe" definitions

    draw back, as with fear or pain


    show submission or fear