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twinge

[twinj] / twɪndʒ /


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BBC's commentary team later received a message from Hodgkinson's coach Jenny Meadows, saying she withdrew as she "felt a little twinge in her last strides before the race".

From BBC Jun. 21, 2026

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

“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

“Yeah,” said Hazel, a twinge of something in her stomach.

From "Breadcrumbs" by Anne Ursu

Another factor creating twinges of anxiety in markets has been the recent upward pressure in short-term funding markets, especially as they reared up at the end of October.

From MarketWatch Nov. 9, 2025

Helen later got the IUS or hormonal contraceptive coil but decided to have it removed after three years because of "sharp twinges".

From BBC Aug. 16, 2023

“Now, whenever they experience the common aches, pains and twinges of life, they wonder if it is because they have this ‘disease,’” Dr. Redberg said.

From New York Times May 30, 2023

“It would have been a lot easier to see the Padres advance because I wouldn’t have those twinges of pain when I see that stupid Phillie Phanatic dancing all around.”

From Washington Post Oct. 27, 2022

But on the inside, I got a case of twinges in my heart and waves in the deepest pit of my stomach.

From "Like Vanessa" by Tami Charles

While the run in Qatar was twinged with disbelief, their journey in North America has been infused with purpose.

From BBC Jul. 4, 2026

Intertwined within this main plot, and equally intriguing, are a pair of narratives twinged in history.

From Washington Times Sep. 13, 2023

In her wordsmith-like rhythms and reggae and neo-soul twinged beats, she answered them wittly, standing proudly in her Black womanhood.

From Salon Aug. 27, 2023

They also predicted that Balto would have had a double layer of black fur twinged with tan; modern sled dogs tend to have just a single layer.

From Science Magazine Apr. 26, 2023

It was repetitive work; the muscles in his arms and lower back twinged as he stooped over and over to pass off refilled buckets and pick up empty ones.

From "Beasts of Prey" by Ayana Gray

The corporal was watching him with hungry eyes and a stupid expression on his face; his stomach was also twinging him.

From The Downfall by E. P. Robins

He smiled, with a twinging undercurrent of regret that not even in impendent death did he find any stimulus to the heroical.

From Gallantry Dizain des Fetes Galantes by James Branch Cabell

But I am like an old soldier whose wound, twinging with rheumatism, announces the approach of damp weather.

From A Splendid Hazard by Harold MacGrath

Thai forcome me in daie of twinging, And made es Layered mi forhiling.

From English Dialects From the Eighth Century to the Present Day by Walter W. (Walter William) Skeat

Thus, the dyspeptic over loading his stomach is plunged into the horrid hell of nightmare: the gourmand, pampering himself with a diet of spiced meats and Burgundy, shrieks from the twinging hell of gout.

From The Destiny of the Soul A Critical History of the Doctrine of a Future Life by William Rounseville Alger




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