Example Sentences

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Cringes of fear seized her soles as something alive, rumbling, climbed the foot of the bed.

From "The Woman Warrior" by Maxine Hong Kingston

"The well-sworn Lie, franked to the world with all The circumstance of proof, Cringes abashed, and sneaks along the wall At the first sight of Truth."

From In a Steamer Chair and Other Stories by Barr, Robert

Over the crest she flies from, Into its hollow she drops, Cringes and clears her eyes from The wind-torn breaker-tops, Ere out on the shrieking shoulder Of a hill-high surge she drives.

From Songs from Books by Kipling, Rudyard