twinge

Example Sentences

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Feel a twinge of embarrassment looking at some of the outfits the teams are being forced to wear.

From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 3, 2025

But, intentional or not, contained within his September critique was a twinge of doubt about the viability of a defence-first mantra in the modern age.

From BBC • Jan. 17, 2025

“The real challenge from a public health perspective is, how do you recognize when your little twinge of loneliness, which everyone has from time to time, starts to spiral out of control?”

From Salon • Dec. 6, 2024

But I also found comfort in the idea that it was a possibility—and a twinge of anger toward the many gynecologists I had seen who had never mentioned it as one.

From Slate • Aug. 23, 2024

But she felt a twinge of sympathy for Mia, too, one she hadn’t felt before and had never expected to feel: how excruciating it must have been to think about giving her child away.

From "Little Fires Everywhere" by Celeste Ng