flinch

Example Sentences

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The line between TMI and TLI—too little information—can feel like playing the board game Operation: one tiny flinch in either direction and the buzzer goes off.

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 20, 2026

So the next time you reach past the clinking crowd of condiments for the same familiar jar, you might try not to flinch.

From Salon • Jan. 31, 2026

He did not flinch at the backlash when he fought a near-pension age Mike Tyson, and he does not appear to care now.

From BBC • Dec. 19, 2025

Amazingly, Lynda didn’t flinch, and her honesty, unfiltered yet graceful, was refreshing and alluring.

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 12, 2025

Most women would be offended to be mistaken for the ghostly apparition, but she did not flinch at the horrific namesake.

From "Summer of the Mariposas" by Guadalupe García McCall