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    flinch


    flinched


    flinches


    flinching


    1. I flinch, thinking about what Micah is slowly turning into


    2. he didn't even flinch when we got Christmas cards addressed to the pair of us


    3. ‘No, me neither … but I daresay our friend Gerisse has some useful associates who wouldn’t flinch at such activity … especially if he’s dabbling in the criminal underworld, as would appear to be the case


    4. “All I have is still open to you, Ava dear,” he said and she didn’t even flinch much when the thick-skinned grey hand came out of his voluminous sleeve to pat hers


    5. ‘She didn’t even flinch, just stood there praying to


    6. He looked through her but she did not flinch


    7. She did not even flinch at the use of power


    8. He stared Ash in the eyes without a single flinch, but when he looked at me something exploded from Ash


    9. Savannah didn’t flinch when the boned needle pricked her flesh


    10. He had almost reached her when she finally pulled the trigger, sounding off an ear-deafening blast that made her flinch and cower

    11. The man stopped with a suddenness that made her flinch


    12. I didn’t even flinch


    13. It was her turn to flinch at the sting of his words


    14. He was shouting now, his words sharp and bitter, making Kiri flinch with their vehemence


    15. The wounds must have stung, but Sicarius did not flinch when she washed them


    16. More lightning and then more trembling thunder made him flinch


    17. This shadow, though insubstantial, emitted an aura of great evil and Brock could not help but flinch away from it


    18. ” From her flinch, I knew I was right


    19. It was primal instinct that made us flinch and shy away from her bare breasts


    20. The General did not flinch and replied with ease and confidence:

    21. Keinalone did not flinch or duck, but took the full painful blow hoping that it would assuage his fatherly anger at her protestation


    22. His face didn’t flinch though, nor did he seem to notice his cigarette was out


    23. It made him flinch, his face sour


    24. Ethan picked up his glass and hesitated before having a sip; he saw the priest gulp down a mouthful and flinch


    25. The sudden contrast made Ethan flinch away


    26. He had not seemed to flinch at all, from witnessing to the “Good News” that was ours to spread


    27. “You’re going to stand there as he throws those knives,” Eric says to Al, “until you learn not to flinch


    28. I will not flinch


    29. If I flinch, I prove to Eric that this is not as easy as I said it was; I prove that I’m a coward


    30. He doesn’t even flinch

    31. I flinch at the sight of his death-pale face


    32. I held my ground and did not flinch, but secretly I worried that the wall would not be able to hold him back


    33. flinch, just stood there, eyes narrowed, the veins bulging out of his forehead


    34. Gloria, the ice queen, didn’t flinch


    35. not flinch in the face of sacrifice, hesitate in the


    36. “Don’t lose any sleep over me Jesse, I don’t expect anything from you” I suppressed a flinch at her cold tone, confirming what I already knew; I was nothing but a heartbreaker who didn’t deserve her or any other woman for that matter


    37. This time I did flinch, but she had already turned heading for the stairs


    38. In the corner of my eye I saw Jesse flinch too, I had forgotten he was there in my furious fit


    39. I saw Lucky flinch at his cold tone “Its nice to see you too Bill” I said in the same tone, glaring at him


    40. “Nothing I say will change your mind so what’s the point?” he said, his tone making me flinch

    41. “Have you forgotten who you booked slut?” Chuck spat irritated, I stifled a flinch just as I saw Jesse’s fists clench


    42. This time, I didn't flinch away


    43. I stifled a flinch and his mother looked down


    44. “Who was it Lucky!” he said, his authorative tone making me flinch


    45. I didn’t flinch but a small gasp escaped my lips, I don’t think he heard it because he immediately turned his back on me walking away


    46. I’m watching Zachary’s response, and I’m surprised he doesn’t flinch at Emily’s embrace


    47. I flinch as they drag me outside, to the garden


    48. ” She says before removing his towel and laying him on the bed as she begins kissing his entire body and even makes him flinch at the touch of her mouth to his penis


    49. ” Talia told him with a giggle as she saw him flinch, her hand on her sword’s pommel as it often was when she wore it


    50. He blinks but does not flinch













































    1. I flinched a bit, I admit, but damn it he was still a Garda


    2. I breathed in and flinched visibly


    3. As he stepped into the room both Menachem and I flinched


    4. Daniel was moving his legs and he raised his right arm a bit and flinched and dropped it to his side


    5. She flinched and moved out of reach


    6. Heather flinched, surprised at first at the


    7. Tensed to leap if she should get the chance, she had flinched as Chas’s flailing hand had brushed her leg


    8. Johnson knew from the way Roman had flinched that there was a good chance he


    9. Leclercq flinched and glared


    10. brought with him, but his eyes never flinched from the

    11. The second was very shy, scared and flinched under her touch


    12. “Hans! Wake up!” This time, Hans flinched, his eyes fluttering


    13. The next set of large artillery flares went off overhead and I moved over to where he was curled up into a foetal position with his knees drawn up to his chin he was keening quietly in his throat and I touched his shoulder but he flinched like a whipped cur


    14. They looked quite tender in the showers too, and received a lot of manly sympathy from us who flinched at the sight of their wounds


    15. Actually he flinched and closed both eyes while shooting (something expected from female cadets—only joking)


    16. Had he flinched again the instructors would become much more fatherly


    17. Even though she expected it, Amaranthe flinched


    18. Rooten flinched at the Preceptor's tone and looked to Comfrey for support, but finding none there, he noisily swallowed his fear


    19. I flinched at the noise that bombarded me as millions of flies swooped and darted about my head


    20. reach out for her but she flinched adding all his torment and finally

    21. Our leave chits,” I bellowed and he flinched


    22. It had taken him weeks to get over the trauma, and even now he instinctively flinched when a bird passed overhead


    23. Crossing over the room in a couple of long strides, he passed so closely to Macey that she flinched, already feeling the cold blade sinking into her stomach


    24. Jumping up onto the wall surrounding the pit, Watts grabbed the rope, then flinched, looking at his hands


    25. His face, or what was still left of it, tried to take on an expression of pain; he flinched and his visage contorted violently


    26. His body flinched and a grunt erupted from him, as the slob behind him jabbed a revolver into his kidney


    27. Ursempyre involuntarily flinched at the uncanny remark and was terrified at the thought the Patriarch was actually reading his mind


    28. Hilderich flinched painfully as he repositioned himself in a more upright position using his hands and replied, gritting his teeth through some of the words:


    29. Hilderich coughed somewhat hard, and flinched before spitting out a blob of bloodied sputum


    30. “Don’t play stupid with me!” Maintenon’s voice cracked as loud as a whip, and even the sergeant flinched

    31. ” She flinched as she expected her added confession would bring another lash


    32. She flinched and a few drops of blood smudged the knife


    33. “They thought so too, but they’re dead,” she said as she flinched and relaxed her body, yielding to Ethan


    34. And in the end they had not flinched either! Whereas I, stuck on this rock of an island, have certainly bemoaned my own poor example of a fate


    35. Then I pictured myself returning to this sad life where all I did was work, where nobody loved me and apparently never would, and flinched at the prospect


    36. “Yes, in not letting me fight! You can’t always protect me!” Ash flinched noticeably


    37. He shouted and flinched, but the lightning only flickered around him


    38. He jumped and nearly flinched back from the figure that had partially


    39. Wynne flinched, but Orphenn did nothing more


    40. Noah flinched, but he kept his eyes on the road

    41. Tomo flinched and then nodded


    42. He reached out to touch her, but she flinched and moved away


    43. She flinched at the touch of the breeze, and suddenly a blinding flash of colour—purple and red and living, pulsing blackness—shot through her eyes


    44. “Is there nothing you can do?” an old man cried, and Nicolas flinched at the sound of the heartbreak in his voice


    45. I flinched in suffering as I stood up warily


    46. She flinched “And what are these ‘expectations’?” she asked, clearly offended


    47. I couldn’t be sure, after she flinched away from my hand in the game room, it hurt me in ways I couldn’t describe


    48. She never flinched away from my touch before and I knew then that she didn’t want me anymore


    49. She flinched “I guess that would also explain these” she lightly traced the scratches on my hands and one on the side of my face


    50. “Shut up!” I screamed at her, she flinched









































    1. He flinches as I mention his friend’s name and for a moment I wonder if I have gone too far, but with a sigh, he holds out his hand for the plate I am clutching


    2. The tooth faerie flinches her green little fists, she


    3. The lad flinches and cries out, but it is enough for Ralph to sense what he needs to


    4. From nowhere the darkness pierces his ears and he flinches as words come hammering into his head: Simon


    5. The scribe flinches as if Johan might hit him, but he holds his position


    6. She barely flinches, throws you back to the bed and slams her head into yours


    7. Keep styptic powder on hand to control any bleeding from those little accidents that can happen when a budgie flinches


    8. Captain Black never flinches from his formal stance, but his


    9. He flinches at the sight of my left eye which is now completely shut


    10. The queen flinches, but does it so subtly that Rapunzel doesn't notice, and promptly recovers herself and clicks a piece into place

    11. She reaches for his arms, but he flinches away from her touch, leaving her hands suspended in the air


    12. Ciere flinches, then drops her hand


    13. Something touches her chin and she flinches in surprise


    1. He listened intently enough, but was always wide-eyed and nervous, flinching visibly every time Robbie shouted out his updates on our preciously spinning time together


    2. choice,’ he added, flinching at their appalled expressions


    3. Harry put his shoulders back and faced the situation without flinching


    4. "We could what?" he asked reaching out to caress her flinching cheek


    5. Patrice cries out at the sound, flinching as her fear


    6. Darniil stared back without flinching; equally serious about the issue, but feeling a light shiver as he stared into those black, beady eyes sizing him up


    7. His choice was a life lived for itself, where a person acknowledges the absurdity of the world without flinching, and then lives life to the fullest


    8. These days she looked at him with revulsion, flinching from his touch, becoming angry if he even mentioned sex


    9. Trying to ignore the pounding noises all around her, she padded onwards, flinching as one monster actually passed right over the top of her, its hot breath scorching her fur


    10. “Sit still,” she complained at his flinching, “I can’t do this with you jumping all over the place,” and pushed him firmly down onto the stool

    11. The guard instantly drew back the AKs loading arm carefully, waiting for Ethan to make the mistake of flinching


    12. Flinching from pain, he loosened his grip involuntarily and allowed her to spin around and punch him hard in the face


    13. He picks up peppers and bites into them without flinching


    14. flinching, we appropriate the victory we have in Him


    15. Mark could feel it when they contained their auras, and he met the dragon god’s fierce glare without flinching


    16. Schmidt took the blow without flinching


    17. Flinching under the renewed pressure, Sari blurted out, “I, am with child, not yours


    18. But despite the endless shivering, the flinching of the


    19. ‘Damn,’ said Titus, flinching from the cold and trying to deflate any tension, ‘I was hoping you would have had it warmed up a little by now


    20. You can’t say the word without flinching

    21. “The line’s down again,” said the production worker, almost flinching as he said it


    22. Vateesa sank to the floor, speechless with terror, but Yasmela faced the infuriated barbarian without flinching


    23. Taramis met that tigerish glare without flinching


    24. Unlike the incident with Blondie, he made no attempt to fend off the blow and took the hit solidly without flinching


    25. Not flinching, Lewis happily lets the nurse inject him with the pain killer


    26. Without flinching, I leaped out of the station


    27. She gingerly poked her jeans with a flinching hand


    28. Ingrid stared without flinching at her tormentor, having taken her decision


    29. Moten was secretly surprised and also impressed on seeing Elizabeth Gardner and Mary Takahashi do their bit at bayoneting without flinching, their faces impassive


    30. He had probably seen so many similar skirmishes in his life that he had become immune to public displays of hostility, only flinching when bullets or blades were added into the equation

    31. the he had failed the last time passing through the hedge by flinching at the last


    32. Flinching, she responded: "That makes a morbid kind of sense to me, Father


    33. He coughed again, flinching from the incredible pain


    34. The extremely rare few who can gaze without flinching into the can’t-be-denied mirror’s image already know what they will see there or at least, are not at all surprised


    35. would hold the mirror without flinching,


    36. Flinching, he pulled his hand back


    37. Kimi jumped to her feet, flinching as she landed on the bad ankle, hiding her splinted, broken wrist behind her, not wanting Achak to notice she was injured


    38. When he met Laeron’s gaze he had to force himself to look at the stone eye without flinching, though the guilt was not so easily tucked away


    39. She strove to keep from flinching at Grace’s touch and almost


    40. In one flinching blink of the eyes, Roger

    41. He faced death in the eye, without flinching


    42. They were larger than any she had seen a man wear and, without flinching, she pushed his head sideways to study one closer


    43. A low keening wail started from the pit of his belly, his muscles cramping and twisting and flinching as the howl made its way up his windpipe and out through his clenched teeth


    44. He’d stood in silence and taken the brunt of her tirade without flinching, but his visage now looked as if it had been carved in stone


    45. No longer unconscious, his flinching jaw communicated a clear combination of outrage and foreboding


    46. “You mean when we used to tangle up the sheets?” I said without even flinching and not caring who could hear us; I had no problem embarrassing him in public after the way he’d humiliated me in front of all of the most important people in my life


    47. “Good heavens you stink,” she said, flinching away from Johnny and finding herself back in Caesar's armpit


    48. Best, noticing this, clasped his beloved blunderbuss and swept it dangerously around the bar, past the flinching group who were already off their stools and shuffling back into the darkness


    49. He sat up slowly, flinching as if he were still in immense pain, and then wrapped his arms around me


    50. ” She slid off the bed, flinching when her knees made contact with the rug




























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    "flinch" definitions

    a reflex response to sudden pain


    draw back, as with fear or pain