blench
Example Sentences
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And for those who blench and tremble at the thought of audience participation, take a breath.
From New York Times ● Aug. 30, 2022
Some might blench at being told how complex systems “evolve in both deterministic and stochastic ways”; might ‘predictable and random’ have sufficed?
From Nature ● Jun. 11, 2019
I’ll observe his looks, I’ll tent him to the quick, if a’do blench I know my course.
From Slate ● Sep. 17, 2014
I saw music publishers tremble and Italian civil servants blench before her assaults.
From The Guardian ● Mar. 24, 2010
Still she did not blench: maiden of the Rohirrim, child of kings, slender but as a steel-blade, fair yet terrible.
From "The Return of the King" by J.R.R. Tolkien
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