twinge

Example Sentences

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When we are out of sync, he says, we experience it as a kind of judder or twinge of social discomfort which “is your brain working a little harder to fix predictions that are wrong.”

From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 22, 2026

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

Even if it was only a twinge, it was enough for the Rams to shut down Stafford.

From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 14, 2024

Vance may have refused to engage with her mental health, but at least a twinge of his love for her shone through in the book.

From Salon • Jul. 20, 2024

Amaranta Úrsula was inclined to believe that he was the son of Petra Cotes, of whom she remembered only tales of infamy, and that supposition produced a twinge of horror in her heart.

From "One Hundred Years of Solitude" by Gabriel Garcia Marquez