Example Sentences

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This is Odette as creature of the wild, flinchingly shy but gradually and warily warming to Acosta's courtship.

From The Guardian • Oct. 13, 2012

This is Turpin�college graduate, widower, veterinarian, and part-time lobster fisherman�forging flinchingly ahead in three days of misadventure that resembles a manic sleepwalker's nightmare.

From Time Magazine Archive

Instantly he looked away, flinchingly, and met Fat Joe's voluminous grin—and looked back again, cunningly cautious.

From Then I'll Come Back to You by Evans, Larry

With a further effort he kept his eyes open and flinchingly surveyed the scene around him.

From The Creature from Cleveland Depths by Leiber, Fritz

But most Nod watched flinchingly the Oomgar's light blue eyes, hard as ice, yet like nothing for strangeness Nod had ever seen in his life before, nor dreamed there was.

From The Three Mulla-mulgars by De la Mare, Walter