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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

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

Like Emma should have felt a twinge in her side when she was sitting in social studies class and realized, Oh no!

From "The Strangers" by Margaret Peterson Haddix

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

When the pain got worse in the middle of 2020, he consulted his GP who told him he had likely pulled a muscle and that the twinges would sort themselves out.

From BBC ● Jun. 16, 2025

Full of jovial bluster, Fisher’s Ali occasionally breaks his facade to reveal pangs of empathy and twinges of insecurity.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 27, 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

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

Heaving, breathing in and out, each breath twinged with a high-pitched wheeze.

From "Like Vanessa" by Tami Charles

The girl hurried on, twinging far to the right through the grass.

From The Call of the North by Stewart Edward White

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

She still lives simply, and enjoys good health; but she tells me if she tastes flesh meat, it produces a twinging in the breast.

From Vegetable Diet: As Sanctioned by Medical Men, and by Experience in All Ages Including a System of Vegetable Cookery by William A. (William Andrus) Alcott

The weak and exquisite sweetness of her smile, as she lay in bed under the stress of twinging pain amid hot-water bottles, was amazing to Sophia.

From The Old Wives' Tale by Arnold Bennett

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




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