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
“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
I will hear the tiniest little sound and it'll make me twinge because it's too sharp.
From BBC • Dec. 9, 2023
Aimee felt tears burning behind her eyes and that sharp, knifelike twinge in her throat that always signaled a flood of tears.
From "Nine, Ten: A September 11 Story" by Nora Raleigh Baskin
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