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 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
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
During intimate evening reveries and at occasional large-scale gatherings, they muse over the decades they’ve spent cultivating their own talents, with joy, satisfaction and maybe a twinge of regret.
From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 15, 2023
Aureliano Segundo felt a twinge of conscience when he saw Meme’s state of prostration and he promised himself to take better care of her in the future.
From "One Hundred Years of Solitude" by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
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