twinge

Example Sentences

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The result is a procedural food fight with a silly name that does little other than keep Capitol denizens up past their bedtimes and cause twinges of political pain.

From New York Times

Sure, she said, during warmups and in qualifying, she felt little nicks and twinges, but nothing she hadn’t dealt with before.

From Seattle Times

“He got hurt during a team period, he just felt a little twinge in the foot,” Brady said.

From Seattle Times

The hope is that these moments might even become touchstones of nostalgia, what Don Draper in “Mad Men” called “a twinge in your heart far more powerful than memory alone.”

From Washington Post

Tellingly, Gordon-Reed confesses to a twinge of mild annoyance “when I first heard that others outside of Texas claimed the holiday.”

From Los Angeles Times