flinch
Example Sentences
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Araki’s sensibility is, if anything, wiser now, though he’d probably flinch at the word.
From Los Angeles Times • May 14, 2026
"And it is one that we don't flinch from telling."
From Barron's • Apr. 28, 2026
“When the lights come on, he just knows what to do, how to do it, and there’s no flinch in that guy.”
From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 21, 2025
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
Then I flinch back too, a bit shocked by her snorty response.
From "The Last Cuentista" by Donna Barba Higuera
Vocabulary lists containing flinch
A Long Walk to Water
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Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone
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The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian
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