wincing
Example Sentences
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Exhaustion was setting in, but the deodorant I’d packed needed to be replaced, so I found myself roaming the body care aisles, wincing under the fluorescent lights as my patience rapidly grew thinner.
From Salon • May 22, 2026
On the one hand, they cheered the clampdown on cheaper Asian imports but on the other were left wincing at the rising costs of their inputs.
From Barron's • Jan. 31, 2026
Tina Brown called American Canto “absurdly pretentious,” wincing at its repeated invocations of Joan Didion’s unsettling Santa Ana winds.
From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 6, 2025
On the edge of our seats, refreshing the live page, wincing at referees or VAR, shouting at the TV, arguing in the group chat.
From BBC • Aug. 14, 2025
Hazel had a flash of a memory—Jack’s mom standing in front of her on some long-ago summer day, gently putting peroxide on a badly skinned knee, wincing along with Hazel.
From "Breadcrumbs" by Anne Ursu
